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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.

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Author:   Ari Ackerman ,  Robin B. ten Hoopen ,  Lieve M. Teugels ,  Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   43
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.587kg
ISBN:  

9789004737525

ISBN 10:   9004737529
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   07 August 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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

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Ari Ackerman, Ph.D. (2001), is the president of Schechter Institute in Jerusalem and a lecturer in Jewish philosophy and education. He received his Ph.D. in Jewish thought from Hebrew University and has published and edited multiple books and articles on various aspects of medieval and modern Jewish thought. He is the author of Hasdai Crescas on Codification, Cosmology and Creation (Brill, 2022). Robin B. ten Hoopen, Ph.D. (2025), is a minister of the Protestant Church in Bergambacht, the Netherlands, and an associate professor at the Protestant Theological University Utrecht. His specializations include notions of immortality in the ANE and HB, Genesis 1–11, and the study of the HB in the ANE. He has published articles in (a.o.) the Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, and Ugarit Forschungen. Lieve M. Teugels, Ph.D. (1994) is a professor of Jewish Studies at the Protestant Theological University in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on rabbinic literature, mainly midrash. She often deals with literature and ideas at the intersection of Judaism and Christianity, or “the partings of the ways” in the first centuries CE. Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen, Ph.D. (1993), is a Professor of Old Testament at the School of Catholic Theology, Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He has published especially on prophetic literature and communication-oriented analysis. He is the co-editor of Teaching and Tradition: On their Dynamic Interaction (Brill, 2023) and Themes and Texts in Luke-Acts (Brill, 2023) and co-author along with Frank G. Bosman of Video Games as Art (De Gruyter, 2022).

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