The Past as Destiny: Historical Visions in Samʾal and Judah under Assyrian Hegemony
In his groundbreaking study of the literary ramifications of the experience of western imperialism for both conquerors and the conquered, Edward Said remarks:Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present. What animates such appeals is not only disagreeme...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1998
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Harvard theological review
Year: 1998, Volume: 91, Issue: 3, Pages: 215-250 |
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| Summary: | In his groundbreaking study of the literary ramifications of the experience of western imperialism for both conquerors and the conquered, Edward Said remarks:Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present. What animates such appeals is not only disagreement about what happened in the past and what the past was, but uncertainty about whether the past really is past. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816000032120 |