About Edom and Idumea in the Persian Period - Recent Research and Approaches from Archaeology, Hebrew Bible Studies and Ancient Near Eastern Studies - Benedikt Hensel
18. The Contribution of Chronicles to the Memory Argument about Edom as Reflected in the Core Repertoire of the Yehudite Literati of the Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Period
About Edom and Idumea in the Persian Period - Recent Research and Approaches from Archaeology, Hebrew Bible Studies and Ancient Near Eastern Studies - Benedikt Hensel
Ehud Ben Zvi [+]
University of Alberta (emeritus)
Description
Ehud Ben Zvi concludes this section and the whole volume with his “The Contribution of Chronicles to the Memory Argument about Edom as Reflected in the Core Repertoire of the Yehudite Literati of the Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Period.” The essay explores the contribution that reading Chronicles made to the memory argument about the memory of the Edom of old that existed among the literati of the late Persian/early Hellenistic period. It shows that reading Chronicles supported some positions, undermined others, but most importantly, shaped its own unique contributions to the existing memory argument, and by doing so, further explored matters directly associated with their own understanding of themselves and of some of their core concepts.