Memory – Papers Read at the Jewish and Christian Perspectives Conference, Utrecht 2022

Ari Ackerman, Ph.D. (2001), is the president of Schechter Institute in Jerusalem and a lecturer in Jewish philosophy and education. He received his Ph.D. in Jewish thought from Hebrew University and has published and edited multiple books and articles on various aspects of medieval and modern Jewish thought. He is the author of Hasdai Crescas on Codification, Cosmology and Creation (Brill, 2022).Robin B. ten Hoopen, Ph.D. (2025), is a minister of the Protestant Church in Bergambacht, the Netherlands, and an associate professor at the Protestant Theological University Utrecht. His specializations include notions of immortality in the ANE and HB, Genesis 1–11, and the study of the HB in the ANE. He has published articles in (a.o.) the Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, and Ugarit Forschungen.Lieve M. Teugels, Ph.D. (1994) is a professor of Jewish Studies at the Protestant Theological University in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on rabbinic literature, mainly midrash. She often deals with literature and ideas at the intersection of Judaism and Christianity, or “the partings of the ways” in the first centuries CE.Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen, Ph.D. (1993), is a Professor of Old Testament at the School of Catholic Theology, Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He has published especially on prophetic literature and communication-oriented analysis. He is the co-editor of Teaching and Tradition: On their Dynamic Interaction (Brill, 2023) and Themes and Texts in Luke-Acts (Brill, 2023) and co-author along with Frank G. Bosman of Video Games as Art (De Gruyter, 2022).

• Contents1 Memory – a Basic Key to Understanding Times and TraditionsAn IntroductionAri Ackerman, Robin ten Hoopen, Lieve Teugels and Archibald van Wieringen2 Are Tomb Monuments a Form of Memory in Biblical Texts?Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen and Bart J. Koet3 Remembering the ExodusMitsrayim as “Land of Anxiety”Lieve Teugels and Robin ten Hoopen4 Reading between the LinesLessons from History in Targum IsaiahAlberdina Houtman5 The Differences between Josephus’ Temple Descriptions in War and AntiquitiesA Literary-Spatial AnalysisEyal Regev6 Aaron RememberedOn the Development of the Characterisation of Aaron the Priest as a Lover of Peace in Rabbinic LiteratureAdiel Kadari7 “What I Saw, I Forgot What I Heard …”Memory, Forgetfulness, and Recollection in Early Rabbinic NarrativeReuven Kiperwasser8 To Remember the ForgottenLoss of Knowledge in Tannaitic LiteratureTamar Kadari9 Some Ideas on Remembering and Forgetting in ChassidismLeon Mock z”l10 Memory and the Other in Levinas’ Commentary on the TalmudMarcel Poorthuis11 Cultural Memory in Hebrew Children’s LiteratureA Dialectic between Original Creation and AdaptationVered Tohar12 From the Absent God to the Absent TextAgnon and the Writing of CatastropheYaniv Hagbi13 Forgetful Remembrance in the Dutch Theological Debate on Colonial SlaveryPreliminary Results of a Quantitative ApproachMartijn J. Stoutjesdijk14 Being Is RememberingOn Locke’s Theory of Consciousness, Mnemohistory, and the Game Remember MeFrank G. Bosman15 Jewishness and Israeliness in the Development of Israel’s Sacred LandscapeDoron Bar16 Imagining a Prehistoric WorldviewGert van KlinkenIndex of ReferencesIndex of Modern Authors