Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 446 pages)
ISBN:
9781108681285
,
9781108493338
,
9781108717625
Content:
The nature and reliability of the ancient sources are among the most important issues in the scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is noteworthy, therefore, that scholars have grown increasingly skeptical about the value of these materials for reconstructing the life of the Teacher of Righteousness. Travis B. Williams' study is designed to address this new perspective and its implications for historical inquiry. He offers an important corrective to popular conceptions of history and memory by introducing memory theory as a means of informing historical investigation. Charting a new methodological course in Dead Sea Scrolls research, Williams reveals that properly representing the past requires an explanation of how the mnemonic evidence found in the relevant sources could have developed from a historical progression that began with the Teacher. His book represents the first attempt in Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship to integrate history and memory in a comprehensive way.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 May 2019)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108493338
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781108493338
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Williams, Travis B., 1980 - History and memory in the Dead Sea Scrolls Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2019 ISBN 1108493335
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108493338
Language:
English
Keywords:
Dead Sea scrolls
;
Geschichte
;
Erinnerung
DOI:
10.1017/9781108681285
Author information:
Williams, Travis B. 1980-
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