Chronicles and Social Memory
How Scribes and Media Shaped a Biblical History
by Doren G. Snoek
Paperback (Published)
(August 2025)
ISBN: 9783161637117
6.06 x 9.09 inches
Price: $125.00
On back order
Doren G. Snoek translates current theory in memory studies to textual production in antiquity. Focusing on textual and material scribal processes that contribute to the formation of historical knowledge, especially for the biblical book Chronicles, he describes how scribes respond to social conditions and existing texts as they generate new “media offers,” that is, new scrolls and the new narratives they contain. He argues that Chronicles creates new social, political, and religious possibilities and, in some cases, may have caused the loss of historical knowledge. The study contributes to scholarship by characterizing Chronicles as a literarily autonomous and materially independent national history for Yehud.
- By (author) Doren G Snoek
Other Titles in this Series
Philology and Textual Criticism
Proceedings of the Second International Colloquium of the Dominique Barthelemy Institute held at Fribourg on 10-11 October, 2013
Die Wallfahrt zum Zweiten Tempel
Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung der Wallfahrtsfeste in vorhasmonaischer Zeit
Volume 40
Die These der sogenannten ‘Konsekutivtempora’ im klassischen Althebraisch
Eine kritische Uberprufung
Volume 150
The Sons of Jacob and the Sons of Herakles
The History of the Tribal System and the Organization of Biblical Identity
Volume 96
Wie der Einheimische so der Fremde
Zur Entstehung und Intention des Heiligkeitsgesetzes und der Texte der sogenannten Heiligkeitsschule
Prophecy and Foreign Nations
Aspects of the Role of the 'Nations' in the Books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel
Volume 135
Creation and Salvation
Models of Relationship Between the God of Israel and the Nations in the Book of Jonah, in Psalms 33 (MT and LXX) and in the Novel 'Joseph and Aseneth'
Volume 106
Covenant and Election in Exilic and Post-Exilic Judaism
Studies of the Sofja Kovalevskaja Research Group on Early Jewish MonotheismVol. V
Volume 79
The Compilational History of the Megilloth
Canon, Contoured Intertextuality and Meaning in the Writings
Volume 59
Mutual Influence in Priestly and Non-Priestly Pentateuchal Narratives
A Study of the Dynamic Interaction Behind the Textual Growth of P and Non-P
Volume 153
The Compositional History of the Book of Kings
An Analysis of the Evaluative Frameworks in 1 Kings 14–2 Kings 25
Similar Books
Ars Prophetica
Theology in the Poetry of Twentieth-Century Hebrew Poets Avraham Halfi, Shin Shalom, Amir Gilboa, and T. Carmi
Extracanonical Traditions and the Holy Land
Texts, Rituals, and Material Culture in Late Antique Palestine
Ḫattušaš utnē išḫameški
Hittite and Other Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented to Piotr Taracha on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday
Lobbying for Equality
Jacques Godard and the Struggle for Jewish Equality during the French Revolution
Punning in Odd or Elegant Constructions in Jeremiah
The Convergence of Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Textuality in the Hebrew Text of Jeremiah
Shame in the Worlds of the Hebrew Bible and Akkadian Texts
A Linguistic Study and Its Implications
Volume 33
Telling Contexts
Archaeological and Textual Studies in Honor of Elizabeth Bloch-Smith and Mark S. Smith
The Body
Lived, Cultured, Adorned: Essays on Dress and the Body in the Bible and Ancient Near East in Honor of Nili S. Fox
The Therapeutae as the Best Paradigm for the Contemplative Life
A Contextual Reading of Philo of Alexandria's De Vita Contemplativa
Tradition, Interpretation, and Change
Developments in the Liturgy of Medieval and Early Modern Ashkenaz
Die Entwicklung erdbebensicherer Bautechniken in der Frühen und Mittleren Eisenzeit in Ostanatolien
Volume 11
Die Jüngerinnen und Jünger im Thomasevangelium
Ein narratologisch inspirierter Zugang zum Text als Einheit
