Memory and identity in ancient Judaism and early Christianity : a conversation with Barry Schwartz / edited by Tom Thatcher.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"This volume applies theoretical principles, along with related aspects of Schwartz's model and the work of other significant memory theorists, to a number of case studies from ancient Jewish and early Christian history. The contributors to the present volume ask three questions of specific research problems within their individual fields of expertise: How can one separate the actual past from commemorative dressing in the extant sources, and what difference does it make to do so?; How did ancient Jews and early Christians draw upon the past to create a durable sense of communal identity, often in the face of trauma?; and, What strategies of keying and framing are evident in the extant sources, and what can these tell us about those texts and their authors and original audiences? While the contributors to the volume answer, and nuance, these questions in different ways as they address them to their respective cases in point, together they serve as the unifying theme of this book"-- Provided by publisher.

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Preface: keys, frames, and the problem of the past / Tom Thatcher -- Where there's smoke, there's fire: memory and history / Barry Schwartz -- part 1. Remembering in Jewish antiquity. Selective recall and ghost memories: two aspects of cultural memory in the Hebrew Bible / Carol A. Newsom -- Old memories, new identities: traumatic memory, exile, and identity formation in the Damascus document and Pesher Habakkuk / Tim Langille -- Cult's death in Scripture: the destruction of Jerusalem's temple remembered by Josephus and Mark / Gabriella Gelardini -- Memory and loss in early rabbinic text and ritual / Steven D. Fraade -- part 2. Remembering in emerging Christianity. The memory-tradition nexus in the Synoptic tradition: memory, media, and symbolic representation / Alan Kirk -- Prolegomena on the textualization of Mark's Gospel: manuscript culture, the extended situation, and the emergence of the written Gospel / Chris Keith -- The memory of the Beloved Disciple: a poetics of Johannine memory / Jeffrey E. Brickle -- The shape of John's story: memory-mapping the Fourth Gospel / Tom Thatcher -- "According to the Scriptures": suffering and the Psalms in the speeches in Acts / Rafael Rodríguez -- On the difficulty of molding a rock: the negotiation of Peter's reputation in early Christian memory / Frederick S. Tappenden -- Social memory and commemoration of the death of "the Lord": Paul's response to the Lord's Supper factions at Corinth / Dennis C. Duling -- part 3. Reflections on a coming conversation. Harvest / Barry Schwartz.

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