Memory in Jewish, Pagan and Christian Societies of the Graeco-Roman World. By Doron Mendels. Pp. 184. (Library of Second Temple Studies, 45). Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 2004. isbn 0 567 08044 7 (hardback) and 0 567 08054 4 (paperback). £35
In this monograph, Mendels explores how the collective memory of societies is formed and how that formation is expressed in works of literature. He is particularly interested in how historical canons come to exist, and why some periods of history and some works become canonical when others do not. H...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 57, Issue: 1, Pages: 213-214 |
| Review of: | Memory in Jewish, pagan and Christian societies of the Graeco-Roman world (London : Clark, 2004) (Morgan, Teresa)
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| Summary: | In this monograph, Mendels explores how the collective memory of societies is formed and how that formation is expressed in works of literature. He is particularly interested in how historical canons come to exist, and why some periods of history and some works become canonical when others do not. Half the book deals with archaic and Classical Greece and Republican Rome, focusing mainly on historians—Herodotus, Thucydides, Livy—but including a chapter on Aeschylus’ Persians and one on Plato's Republic. The other half is a series of case studies of Jewish and Christian texts, including 1 Maccabees, Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History, and Gedaliahu Alon's The Jews in their Land in the Talmudic Age. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flj075 |