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Michael Hemenway

Remembering Abraham: culture, memory ... - Google Books - 1 views

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shared by Michael Hemenway on 10 Feb 10 - Cached
    • Michael Hemenway
      Michael Hemenway on 10 Feb 10
       
      p. 6 offers a nice short description of Hendel's view of history in the Hebrew Bible - "more a midrash on the times than the times themselves" (6)
    • Michael Hemenway
      Michael Hemenway on 10 Feb 10
       
      "shared memory of a collective past" (8) - remembering the Exodus story became a central site of cultural memory and identity for the people of Israel and remains so today.
    • Michael Hemenway
      Michael Hemenway on 10 Feb 10
       
      genealogies are often sites of cultural memory that are loaded with identity markers. If we read genealogies in light of cultural memory, we might get a better sense of the selectivity of the list and the agenda at work in composing it.
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    • Michael Hemenway
      Michael Hemenway on 10 Feb 10
       
      p. 100 has a nice discussion of Hendel's understanding of cultural/collective memory and its relationship to myth and history.
  • Michael Hemenway on 10 Feb 10
     
    Another good resource for exploring the role of memory in biblical history.
suesaldin

Psychoanalytic Criticism - 28 views

Thanks, Aaron. You've hit on a lively topic in psychology - nature versus nurture. I agree that physiologically our human brain structure has been stable for an extraordinarily long time. I thin...

Psychoanalytic Criticism

started by Aaron Pope on 17 Feb 10 7 follow-ups, last by suesaldin on 18 Feb 10
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