Memory – Papers Read at the Jewish and Christian Perspectives Conference, Utrecht 2022 / / edited by Ari Ackerman, Robin B. ten Hoopen, Lieve M. Teugels, and Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen.

• Superior document: Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2025
• TeilnehmendeR: Ackerman, Ari,; Ten Hoopen, Robin B.,; Teugels, Lieve M.,; Wieringen, Archibald L.H.M. van,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2025.; ©2025
• Year of Publication: 2025
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2025.; Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series ; 43.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (278 pages)

Memory – Papers Read at the Jewish and Christian Perspectives Conference, Utrecht 2022 connects past, present, and future. This conference volume demonstrates the diversity of ‘memory’ in the Jewish and Christian traditions. ‘Memory’ turns out to be a key to investigating and better understanding many aspects of Judaism and Christianity, including their mutual relationship. In these traditions, memory is not simply about recalling events, but about preserving identity, culture, and divine teachings. The act of remembering is central to how communities pass down their religious beliefs, laws, and moral frameworks across generations. It also plays a role in communal cohesion, ensuring that the experiences of the fathers and their wisdom would not get lost, but rather actively re-lived and celebrated.

Table of Contents

Contents -- 1 Memory – a Basic Key to Understanding Times and Traditions -- An Introduction -- Ari Ackerman, Robin ten Hoopen, Lieve Teugels and Archibald van Wieringen -- 2 Are Tomb Monuments a Form of Memory in Biblical Texts? -- Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen and Bart J. Koet -- 3 Remembering the Exodus -- Mitsrayim as “Land of Anxiety” -- Lieve Teugels and Robin ten Hoopen -- 4 Reading between the Lines -- Lessons from History in Targum Isaiah -- Alberdina Houtman -- 5 The Differences between Josephus’ Temple Descriptions in War and Antiquities A Literary-Spatial Analysis -- Eyal Regev -- 6 Aaron Remembered -- On the Development of the Characterisation of Aaron the Priest as a Lover of Peace in Rabbinic Literature -- Adiel Kadari -- 7 “What I Saw, I Forgot What I Heard …” -- Memory, Forgetfulness, and Recollection in Early Rabbinic Narrative -- Reuven Kiperwasser -- 8 To Remember the Forgotten -- Loss of Knowledge in Tannaitic Literature -- Tamar Kadari -- 9 Some Ideas on Remembering and Forgetting in Chassidism -- Leon Mock z”l -- 10 Memory and the Other in Levinas’ Commentary on the Talmud -- Marcel Poorthuis -- 11 Cultural Memory in Hebrew Children’s Literature -- A Dialectic between Original Creation and Adaptation -- Vered Tohar -- 12 From the Absent God to the Absent Text -- Agnon and the Writing of Catastrophe -- Yaniv Hagbi -- 13 Forgetful Remembrance in the Dutch Theological Debate on Colonial Slavery -- Preliminary Results of a Quantitative Approach -- Martijn J. Stoutjesdijk -- 14 Being Is Remembering -- On Locke’s Theory of Consciousness, Mnemohistory, and the Game Remember Me -- Frank G. Bosman -- 15 Jewishness and Israeliness in the Development of Israel’s Sacred Landscape -- Doron Bar -- 16 Imagining a Prehistoric Worldview -- Gert van Klinken -- Index of References -- Index of Modern Authors.