Memory and Remembrance in Patriarchal Traditions: Two Cases of Re-signification for the Presence of Absence

TitleMemory and Remembrance in Patriarchal Traditions: Two Cases of Re-signification for the Presence of Absence
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2007
AuthorsBernardo Gandulla
JournalHoly Land Studies: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Volume6
Issue2
Pagination163-175
ISSN1750-0125
Abstract

Abstract The Old Testament, in the author’s opinion, is not a historical document but a constructed fi ction from the times of the Greek-Roman domination of Canaan, starting with the manipulation of the collective memory with ideological autolegitimation means. However, this process of intentional re-memoration began by the editors of the text appears in diff erent materials from diff erent sources, in time and space that has some historical elements, similar to the etiological myths. To prove the hypothesis of the memory manipulation, the author analyses the implicit problematic in genealogical traditions in Genesis 10 y 11: 10–27 and the ‘history’ of the sons of Isaac in Genesis 35: 22–29 and Genesis 36.

URLhttp://muse.jhu.edu/journals/holy_land_studies/v006/6.2gandulla.pdf
DOI10.1353/hls.2008.0013
Short TitleMemory and Remembrance in Patriarchal Traditions