Performing Memory in Biblical Narrative and Beyond

Name: Performing Memory in Biblical Narrative and Beyond
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ISBN: 9781906055806

ISBN-10: 1906055807

ISBN-13: 9781906055806

Edition: 2009

Authors: Athalya Brenner, Frank H. Polak

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In this volume, various aspects of narrated 'memories' in the Bible and beyond it are examined for their literary and sociological charge within biblical literature as well as in its cultural afterlives-Jewish, Christian and 'secular'. From inner-biblical memory shaping claims to contemporaneous retellings, the shifts of tradition to story are explored for ways, means and aims that, authorially intentional or otherwise, become influential in adapting the Bible for the postmodern scene and adapting the postmodern scene to the Bible.This compilation of articles is the result of a collective research project with participants from the University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University (The…

Book details

Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 324
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Athalya Brenner is Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Amsterdam, and Rosalyn and Manny Rosenthal Distinguished Professor-in-Residence of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School, Fort Worth, Texas.