Memories of Moses: A Survey Through Genres
The last few decades have seen an increase in the use of memory studies in biblical scholarship, yet so far studies on biblical characters have not sufficiently considered the genre of the texts that encode the memories. This article explores the relation between genre and the ways in which Moses is...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2017]
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| In: |
Journal for the study of the Old Testament
Year: 2017, Volume: 41, Issue: 3, Pages: 287-312 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Moses
/ Memory
/ Old Testament
/ Early Judaism
/ Literature
/ New Testament
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament HC New Testament HD Early Judaism |
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| Summary: | The last few decades have seen an increase in the use of memory studies in biblical scholarship, yet so far studies on biblical characters have not sufficiently considered the genre of the texts that encode the memories. This article explores the relation between genre and the ways in which Moses is remembered or forgotten in historiographical genres such as national histories and historiographical novellas; in wisdom genres; in prophetic genres such as oracles, biographies and apocalypticism; in genres within the Psalms; and in more recent genres such as treatises, letters and New Testament Gospels. The article demonstrates how the authors create and recreate the memory of Moses in order to serve their own ideological means in accordance with their chosen genres. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-6728 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the Old Testament
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0309089216661170 |