
Cultural Memory in the Hebrew Bible
Genesis to Kings
Ronald Hendel(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Will be published approx. on 31. July 2026
Book
Hardback
75 pages
978-1-009-51762-1 (ISBN)
Description
The relationship between the biblical representations of the past and the history of the second and early first millennia BCE is best comprehended by the concept of cultural memory. This volume investigates the dynamics of cultural memory in the Hebrew Bible, with case studies on the ancestors, the Exodus, the conquest, and Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. The texts create a monumental past by a mixture of memory, forgetting, revision, and re-actualization, motivated in various measures by religion, politics, the landscape, ethnic relationships, and cultural self-fashioning. The archaeology of the Levant illuminates the complicated pathways between history and biblical memory.
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Weight
5 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-009-51762-1 (9781009517621)
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1. What is cultural memory?; 2. The ancestors: genealogies of self and others; 3. The exodus: imagining the nation; 4. The conquest: the landscape of memory; 5. Solomon and the queen of Sheba: the politics of memory; Conclusion the archaeology of memory; Appendix on history-likeness; Bibliography.