TY - BOOK ID - 33159171 TI - Memory in the time of prose : studies in epistemology, Hebrew scribalism, and the biblical past PY - 2018 SN - 9780190649852 9780190649883 9780190649876 9780190649869 0190649852 PB - New York: Oxford university press, DB - UniCat KW - Knowledge, Theory of (Religion) KW - Epistemology, Religious KW - Religious epistemology KW - Religious knowledge, Theory of KW - Religion KW - Theology, Doctrinal KW - Philosophy KW - David, KW - Daud, KW - Dāwūd, KW - Nabī Dāwūd, KW - דוד KW - דוד, KW - דוד המלך KW - David (Biblical figure) KW - Bible. KW - Antico Testamento KW - Hebrew Bible KW - Hebrew Scriptures KW - Kitve-ḳodesh KW - Miḳra KW - Old Testament KW - Palaia Diathēkē KW - Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa KW - Sean-Tiomna KW - Stary Testament KW - Tanakh KW - Tawrāt KW - Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim KW - Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim KW - Velho Testamento KW - Historiography. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Antiquities. KW - Bible KW - Historiography KW - Antiquities KW - 221.015 KW - 221.015 Oud Testament: literaire kritiek; authenticiteit; bronnenstudie; Formgeschiche; Traditionsgeschichte; Redaktionsgeschichte KW - Oud Testament: literaire kritiek; authenticiteit; bronnenstudie; Formgeschiche; Traditionsgeschichte; Redaktionsgeschichte KW - David, - King of Israel UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:33159171 AB - Memory in a Time of Prose investigates a deceptively straightforward question: what did the biblical scribes know about times previous to their own? To address this question, the following study focuses on matters pertaining to epistemology, or the sources, limits, and conditions of knowing that would have shaped biblical stories told about a past that preceded the composition of these writings by a generation or more. The investigation that unfolds with these interests in mind consists of a series of case studies that compare biblical references to an early Iron Age world (ca. 1175–830 BCE) with a wider constellation of archaeological and historical evidence unearthed from the era in which these stories are set. What this approach affords is the opportunity to examine the relationship between the past disclosed through these historical traces and that past represented within the biblical narrative, thus bringing to light meaningful details concerning the information drawn on by Hebrew scribes for the prose narratives they created. The results of this comparative endeavor are insights into an ancient world of oral, living speech that informed biblical storytelling, where knowledge about the past was elicited more through memory and word of mouth than through a corpus of older narrative documents. For those Hebrew scribes who first set down these stories in prose writing, the means for knowing a past and the significance attached to it were, in short, wed foremost to the faculty of remembrance. ER -