Forgetting to Remember: Theorizing the Role of the Forgotten In the Production of Biblical Text and Tradition.
This article examines Exod 34:11–17 by utilizing theory of cultural memory, enriched with theory of metaphor and allusion. As the author of a late text, the scribe responsible for this insertion remembers other various biblical texts via allusion, creating synthetic categories that are useful for ca...
| Published in: | Biblical Interpretation Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 415 - 440 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2023
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