Aubrey Buster, Remembering the Story of Israel: Historical Summaries and Memory Formation in Second Temple Judaism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022).I noted the publication of the book here.Aubrey Buster’s Remembering the Story of Israel: Historical Summaries and Memory Formation in Second Temple Judaism makes significant contributions in four areas: first, to the study of short, schematic histories in biblical literature; second, to memory studies and biblical literature; third, to study of the biblical work Chronicles, and fourth, to psalmody and prayer in Second Temple Jewish literature. Its primary question is: how did short historical accounts in various genres generate meaning in early Jewish communities? Secondarily, it asks: why did short historical accounts remain productive alongside long-form narrative histories? ...
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