2021 SBL

2022 SBL Annual Meeting
November 20–23, 2021
San Antonio, TX (and Virtual)

Time Immemorial/In Memorial: Time Modeling and Social Remembering in and beyond the Hebrew Bible

This response will engage the four papers offered by the panelists in this session —Judith Newman, Jenna Kemp, and Aubrey Buster—and the value of this discourse for the various conceptions of time within and beyond the Hebrew Bible. In addition to highlighting the unique contributions of the research of each presenter, this paper offers a reflection on the usefulness of theories of social remembering (collective and cultural memory) for theorizing and analyzing time and temporality in the Hebrew Bible.