This volume collects revised versions of essays from a 2011 workshop on Remembering and Forgetting in Early Second Temple Judah . The authors reflect on cases of memory and forgetting as reflected in the literature that ended up in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament as well as on general issues associated with social memory in ancient Israel.

This volume collects revised versions of essays from a 2011 workshop held in Munich on Remembering and Forgetting in Early Second Temple Judah . The authors of the essays address these issues from both general methodological perspectives and through case studies emerging out or associated with a wide range of texts from the prophetic literature, the Pentateuch, the historical books, Psalms and Lamentations. All these texts share one main feature: they shape memories of the past (or future) and involve forgetting.

Contributors: Bob Becking, Ehud Ben Zvi, Kåre Berge, Diana Edelman, Christina Ehring, Judith Gärtner, Friedhelm Hartenstein, Michael Hundley, Jörg Jeremias, Sonya Kostamo, Francis Landy, Christoph Levin, James Linville, Zhenhua Meng, Bill Morrow, Reinhard Müller, Urmas Nõmmik, Juha Pakkala, Hermann-Josef Stipp

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Christoph Levin ist Professor für Altes Testament an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind die Literaturgeschichte des Alten Testaments und die Geschichte und Religionsgeschichte des vorexilischen Israel und Juda sowie des Judentums in der Perserzeit.

Inhalt
Ehud Ben Zvi: Introduction

A. Remembering and Forgetting in the Collection of Prophetic Books
Ehud Ben Zvi: Remembering the Prophets through the Reading and Rereading of a Collection of Prophetic Books in Yehud. Methodological Considerations and Explorations - Jörg Jeremias: Remembering and Forgetting. "True" and "False" Prophecy - Sonya Kostamo: Remembering Interactions Between Ahaz and Isaiah in the Late Persian Period - Friedhelm Hartenstein: YHWH's Ways and New Creation in Deutero-Isaiah - Christina Ehring: YHWH's Return in Isaiah 40:1-11 and 52:7-10. Pre-exilic Cultic Traditions of Jerusalem and Babylonian Influence - Christoph Levin: "Days Are Coming, When It Shall No Longer Be Said". Remembering and Forgetting in the Book of Jeremiah - William Morrow:* Memory and Socialization in Malachi 2:17-3:5 and 3:13-21

B. Remembering and Forgetting in Other Ancient Israelite Corpora
Kåre Berge: The Anti-Hero as a Figure of Memory and Didacticism in Exodus. The Case of Pharaoh and Moses - Diana Edelman: Exodus and Pesach-Massot as Evolving Social Memory - Urmas Nõmmik: Remembering a Memorable Conversation. Genesis 18:22b-33 and the Righteous in the Persian Period - Michael Hundley: The Way Forward is Back to the Beginning. Reflections on the Priestly Texts - Hermann-Josef Stipp: Remembering Josiah's Reforms in Kings - Juha Pakkala: Selective Transmission of the Past in Chronicles. Jehoiada's Rebellion in 2 Kings 11 and 2 Chronicles 22:10-23:21 - Zhenhua (Jeremiah) Meng: Remembering Ancestors. A Levitical Genealogy in Yehud and the Bohai Gaos Genealogy of Gao Huan - Judith Gärtner: From Generation to Generation. Remembered History in Psalm 78 - Bob Becking: Memory and Forgetting in and on the Exile. Remarks on Psalm 137 - Reinhard Müller: "Forgotten" by Yahweh. A Mental Image of Human Suffering and Its Function in "Exilic" Laments - James R. Linville: Lest We Forget Our Sins. Lamentations, Exilicism and the Sanctification of Disjunction

C. Further Methodological Conclusions
Francis Landy: Notes Towards a Poetics of Memory in Ancient Israel