A biblical mnemohistory of 'Egypt' : Exodus as the legitimation of Israelite continuity
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Ronald A. Geobey, 'A biblical mnemohistory of 'Egypt' : Exodus as the legitimation of Israelite continuity', [thesis], Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, 2015, pp 369Download Item:
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The aim of this thesis was to chart the evolution of the tradition in the Hebrew Bible of a migration from Egypt as it relates to the development of Israelite identity, with a view to negotiating a position between the poles of 'maximalist' or 'conservative' scholars maintaining the relative historicity of the received form (that which we know as Exodus); and 'minimalist' or 'revisionist' scholars pushing the date for the composition of Exodus into increasingly later periods in the development of Judaism. I have argued for a 'mnemohistorical' approach to critical analyses of the historicity of the migration tradition, seeing Exodus as the final product in a long history of the development of a tradition integral to the preservation of Israelite identity. While this in itself is not a new concept, I have identified significant 'memory contexts' in which revitalised incarnations of the migration tradition appear to be associated with distorted memories of identity (re-)negotiation.
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Embargo End Date: 2022-01-01
Author: Geobey, Ronald A.
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Fitzpatrick, AnnePublisher:
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