Remembering Abraham: Culture, Memory, and History in the Hebrew Bible

by Ronald Hendel

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According to an old tradition preserved in the Palestinian Targums, the Hebrew Bible is "the Book of Memories." The sacred past recalled in the Bible serves as a model and wellspring for the present. The remembered past, says Ronald Hendel, is the material with which biblical Israel constructed its identity as a people, a religion, and a culture. It is a mixture of history, collective memory, folklore, and literary brilliance, and is often colored...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0195177967

ISBN13:9780195177961

Release Date:February 2005

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:216 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Related Subjects

Christian Books & Bibles Education & Reference Ethnic & National Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) History of Religion Jewish Judaism Reference Religion Religion & Spirituality Sacred Writings

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