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Imagined Worlds and Constructed Differences in the Hebrew Bible
Contributor(s): Cataldo, Jeremiah W. (Editor)
ISBN: 0567683516     ISBN-13: 9780567683519
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
OUR PRICE:   $148.50  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: August 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Biblical Studies - Old Testament - General
- Religion | Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - Old Testament
Dewey: 221.6
LCCN: 2019016129
Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.00 lbs) 200 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
 
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The purpose of this volume is twofold: to introduce readers to the study of cultural memory and identity in relation to the Hebrew Bible, and to set up strategies for connecting studies of the historical contexts and literature of the Bible to parallel issues in the present day.

The volume questions how we can better understand the divide between insider and outsider and the powerful impact of prejudice as a basis for preserving differences between us and them? In turn the contributors question how such frameworks shape a community's self-perception, its economics and politics. Guided by the general framework of Anderson's theory of nationalism and the outsider, such issues are explored in related ways throughout each of the contributions. Each contribution focuses on social, economic, or political issues that have significantly shaped or influenced dominant elements of cultural memory and the construction of identity in the biblical texts. Together the contributions present a larger proposal: the broad contours of memory and identity in the Bible are the products of a collective desire to reshape the social-political world.

Contributor Bio(s): Cataldo, Jeremiah W.: - Jeremiah Cataldo is Associate Professor of History in the Frederik Meijer Honors College at Grand Valley State University, USA.Mein, Andrew: -

Andrew Mein is Tutor in Old Testament, Westcott House, Cambridge.

Camp, Claudia V.: - Claudia V. Camp is Professor of Religion at Texas Christian University, USA and was on the steering committee of the Seminar. She is currently co-general editor of the LHBOTS series, as well as the author or editor of 4 books and numerous articles.