RT Review T1 Remembering Biblical Figures in the Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods: Social Memory and Imagination. Edited by Diana V. Edelman and Ehud Ben Zvi JF The journal of theological studies VO 65 IS 2 SP 646 OP 649 A1 Williamson, H. G. M. 1947- LA English YR 2014 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1783734736 AB Social memory has been a prominent feature of historical studies for several decades now, and, judging by the spate of books that have appeared in the last few years which try to relate it to various aspects of Old Testament study, it looks as though biblical scholars are just now catching up with a field which in other respects is beginning to look rather tired. Some specialists have sought to distinguish between social, cultural, and communicative memory, but the various terms are not used in a fully consistent manner by different writers, and, in any case, the distinctions are not sufficiently robust to be of particular further help in biblical studies, where the data are so comparatively few and our external knowledge so limited. K1 Rezension DO 10.1093/jts/flu105