Memory in Jewish, Pagan, and Christian Societies of the Graeco-Roman World (2004 Mendels), book

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Memory in Jewish, Pagan, and Christian Societies of the Graeco-Roman World (2004) is a book by Doron Mendels.

Abstract

"The ten studies in this book explore the phenomenon of public memory in societies of the Graeco-Roman period. Mendels begins with a concise discussion of the historical canon that emerged in Late Antiquity and brought with it the (distorted) memory of ancient history in Western culture. The following nine chapters each focus on a different source of collective memory in order to demonstrate the patchy and incomplete associations ancient societies had with their past, including discussions of Plato's Politeia, a "site of memory" of the early church, and the dichotomy existing between the reality of the land of Israel in the Second Temple period and memories of it. Throughout the book, Mendels shows that since the societies of Antiquity had associations with only bits and pieces of their past, these associations could be slippery and problematic, constantly changing, multiplying and submerging. Memories, true and false, oral and inscribed, provide good evidence for this fluidity."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in London [England] and New York, NY: T&T Clark International, 2004 (Library of Second Temple Studies, 48).

External links

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