Traditional History and Cultural Memory in the Pesharim
This article explores the type and function of historiography in the pesharim, a group of biblical commentaries in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Although the unabashedly subjective viewpoint of history in the pesharim strongly contrasts modern notions of historiography, they nevertheless present a kind of h...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Brill
[2019]
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Journal for the study of Judaism
Jahr: 2019, Band: 50, Heft: 3, Seiten: 348-370 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Kollektives Gedächtnis
/ Geschichtsschreibung
/ Mündlichkeit
/ Pescher
/ Traditionsgeschichtliche Forschung
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| RelBib Classification: | BH Judentum HB Altes Testament HD Frühjudentum |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
cultural memory
B Historiography B Pesharim B traditional history B Orality |
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| Zusammenfassung: | This article explores the type and function of historiography in the pesharim, a group of biblical commentaries in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Although the unabashedly subjective viewpoint of history in the pesharim strongly contrasts modern notions of historiography, they nevertheless present a kind of history writing. In particular, historiography in the pesharim is analogous to traditional history, a type of history writing found in oral epics from around the world. Like traditional history, the pesharim owe their primary allegiance to a special register of language that is both traditional and adaptable. Rather than a factual record, the pesharim are formative cultural texts that use history to create and transmit cultural memory. More specifically, traditional history in the pesharim constructs a common descent of membership and "instrumentalizes" the past for identity formation in the present. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0631 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of Judaism
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700631-15031219 |