Memory and Covenant: The Role of Israel's and God's Memory in Sustaining the Deuteronomic and Priestly Covenants (Emerging Scholars) - Softcover

Ellman, Barat

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1451465610 ISBN 13: 9781451465617

Verlag: Fortress Press,U.S., 2013

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Memory and Covenant combines a close reading of texts in the deuteronomic, priestly, and holiness traditions with analysis of ritual and scrutiny of the different terminology used in each tradition regarding memory. Ellman demonstrates that the exploration of the concept of memory is critical to understanding the overall cosmologies, theologies, and religious programs of these distinct traditions. All three regard memory as a vital element of religious practice and as the principal instrument of covenant fidelitybut in very different ways. Ellman shows that for the deuteronomic tradition, memory is an epistemological and pedagogical means for keeping Israel faithful to its God and Gods commandments, even when Israelites are far from the temple and its worship. The priestly tradition, however, understands that the covenant depends on Gods memory, which must be aroused by the sensory stimuli of the temple cult. The holiness school incorporates the priestly idea of sensory memory but places responsibility for remembering on Israel. A subsequent layer of priestly tradition revives the centrality of Gods memory within a thorough-going theology uniting temple worship with creation.

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Barat Ellman is an ordained rabbi and adjunct assistant professor of the Bible and its interpretation at the Jewish Theological Seminary and is also adjunct assistant professor at Fordham College. She completed her dissertation at Jewish Theological Seminary under the direction of Stephen Geller.

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• Verlag: Fortress Press,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1451465610
• ISBN 13: 9781451465617
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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