This guide introduces readers to social memory studies as developed by social scientists, and its conceptual relations with history and historiography. It then examines its applications to the study of the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and Christian origins.
Aguilar, Mario I.2000. "Rethinking the Judean Past: Questions of History and a Social Archaeology of Memory in the First Book of the Maccabees." Biblical Theology Bulletin30: 58-67.
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Aitken, Ellen Bradshaw.2004. Jesus’ Death in Early Christian Memory: The Poetics of the Passion. Göttingen, Germany: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
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Assmann, Jan.2006. Religion and Cultural Memory: Ten Studies, translated by Rodney Livingstone. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
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1997 . Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism . Cambridge MA/London, UK: Harvard University Press.
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Bal, Mieke, Jonathan Crewe, & Leo Spitzer .1999. Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.
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Blenkinsopp, Joseph.1997. "Memory, Tradition and the Construction of the Past in Ancient Israel," Biblical Theology Bulletin27: 76-82.
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Burke, Peter.1989. "History as Social Memory." Pp. 97-113 in Memory: History, Culture and the Mind, edited by Thomas Butler.New York, NY: Blackwell.
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Castelli, Elizabeth A.2004. Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
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Climo, Jacob J., & Maria G. Cattell, 2002. Social Memory and History: Anthropological Perspectives. Lanham, MD: Alta Mira Press.
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Coleman, Janet.1992. Ancient and Medieval Memories: Studies in the Reconstruction of the Past. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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Connerton, Paul.1989. How Societies Remember. New York, NY : Cambridge University Press.
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Davies, Philip R.2008. Memories of Ancient Israel: An Introduction to Biblical History-Ancient and Modern. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press.
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DeConick, April D.2005. "Reading the Gospel of Thomas as a Repository of Early Christian Communal Memory." Pp. 207-20 in Kirk & Thatcher2005a.
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Dewey, Arthur J.2005. "The Locus for Death: Social Memory and the Passion Narratives ." Pp. 119-28 in Kirk & Thatcher2005a.
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Duling, Dennis.2011. "Memory, Collective Memory, Orality and the Gospels." HTS Teologiese Studien/Theological Studies6: 103-13.
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Esler, Philip F.2006. "Paul’s Contestation of Israel’s (Ethnic) Memory of Abraham in Galatians 3." Biblical Theology Bulletin36: 23-34.
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2005. "Collective Memory and Hebrews 11: Outlining a New Investigative Framework." Pp. 151-71 in Kirk & Thatcher2005a.
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Fentress, James, & Chris Wickham .1992. Social Memory: New Perspectives on the Past. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers.
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Guijarro, Santiago.2007. "Cultural Memory and Group Identity in Q," Biblical Theology Bulletin37: 90-100.
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Haaken, Janice.1998. Pillar of Salt: Gender, Memory and the Perils of Looking Back. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
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Halbwachs, Maurice.1950. La mémoire collective. Paris , France: Presses Universitaires de France.
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1941 . La topographie légendaire des évangiles en terre sainte: Etude de mémoire collective. Paris, France: Presses Universitaires de France.
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1925 . Les cadres sociaux de la mémoire. Paris: Librairie Felix Alcan.
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Note: All three of the above essays are included in the English translation cited in this Guide: On Collective Memory, edited, translated and with an introduction by Lewis A. Coser ( 1992; Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
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Hanson, K.C.1994. "How Honorable! How Shameful! A Cultural Analysis of Matthew’s Makarisms and Reproaches." Pp. 81-111 in Honor and Shame in the World of the Bible, edited by Victor H. Matthews. Semeia68. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature.
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Hearon, Holly.2006. "The Construction of Social Memory in Biblical Interpretation ," Encounter67: 343-59.
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2005 a. "The Story of ‘the Woman Who Anointed Jesus’ as Social Memory: A Methodological Proposal for the Study of Tradition as Memory," Pp. 99-118 in Kirk & Thatcher.
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2005b. "The Art of Biblical Interpretation: Re-membering the Past into the Present." Encounter66: 189-197.
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Hendel, Ronald.2005. Remembering Abraham: Culture, Memory and History in the Hebrew Bible. Oxford, UK/New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
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Hervieu-Leger, Daniele.2000. Religion as a Chain of Memory. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
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Hewitt, Marsha.1994. "The Redemptive Power of Memory: Walter Benjamin and Elisabeth Schüssler-Fiorenza." Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion10: 73-89.
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Hirsch, Marianne, & Valerie Smith .2002. "Feminism and Cultural Memory: An Introduction." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society28: 1-19.
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Hobsbawm, Eric, & Terence Ranger .1992/1999. The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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Horsley, Richard A.2005. "Prominent Patterns in the Social Memory of Jesus and Friends." Pp. 57-78 in Kirk & Thatcher2005a.
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Hutton, Patrick F.1993. History as an Art of Memory. Burlington, VT: University Press of New England.
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Israeli, Raphael.2001. "Myth as Memory: Muslims in China between Myth and History ." Muslim World91: 185-201.
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Keightley, Georgia Masters.2005. "Christian Collective Memory and Paul’s Knowledge of Jesus." Pp. 129-50 in Kirk & Thatcher.
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1987. "The Church’s Memory of Jesus: A Social Science Analysis of 1 Thessalonians," Biblical Theology Bulletin17: 149-156.
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Kelber, Werner H., & Samuel Byrskog .2009. Jesus in Memory: Traditions in Oral and Scribal Perspectives. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press.
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2008. "The Oral-Scribal-Memorial Arts of Communication in Early Christianity." Pp. 235-62 in Thatcher2008.
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2006. "The Generative Force of Memory: Early Christian Traditions as Processes of Remembering." Biblical Theology Bulletin36: 15-22.
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2005. "The Works of Memory: Christian Origins as Mnemo-History-A Response." Pp. 221-48 in Kirk & Thatcher.
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2002. "The Case of the Gospels: Memory’s Desire and the Limits of Historical Criticism." Oral Tradition17: 55-86.
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Kirk, Alan.2008. "Manuscript Tradition as a Tertium Quid: Orality and Memory in Scribal Practices," pp. 215-35 in Jesus, the Voice, and the Text: Beyond the Oral and the Written Gospel, edited by Tom Thatcher (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press).
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2005a. "Social and Cultural Memory." Pp. 1-24 in Kirk & Thatcher 2005a.
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2005b. "The Memory of Violence and the Death of Jesus in Q" Pp. 191-206 in Kirk & Thatcher2005a.
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Kirk, Alan, & Tom Thatcher .2005a. Memory, Tradition, and Text: Uses of the Past in Early Christianity. Semeia 52. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature.
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2005b. "Jesus Tradition as Social Memory" Pp. 25-42 in Kirk & Thatcher2005a.
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Lembke, Jerry Lee.1997. "Myth, Spit and Vietnam Vets: More on the Politics of Memory. Tikkun12: 11-14.
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Lieu, Judith.2004. Christian Identity in the Jewish and Greco-Roman World . New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
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Littlewood, Roland.1998. "History, Memory and Appropriations: Some Problems in the Analysis of Origins." Pp. 223- 43 in Rastafari and Other African-Caribbean Worldviews, edited by Barry Chevannes.London, UK: Macmillan/New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
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Malina, Bruce J., & Richard L. Rohrbaugh .2003. SocialScience Commentary on the Synoptic Gospels. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press
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Mendels, Doron.2004. Memory in Jewish, Pagan and Christian Societies of the Greco-Roman World. London, UK: T & T Clark/Continuum.
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Misztal, Barbara A.2003. "Durkheim on Collective Memory." Journal of Classical Sociology3: 123-43.
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Neyrey, Jerome H.1995. "Loss of Wealth, Loss of Family and Loss of Honor: A Cultural Interpretation of the Original Four Makarisms." Pp. 139-58 in Modelling Early Christianity: Social-Scientific Studies of the New Testament in Its Context, edited by P. F. Esler.London, UK: Routledge.
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Nora, Pierre.1989. "Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Memoire." Representations26: 7-24.
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Olick, Jeffrey K.2007. "Collective Memory" Pp. 7-8 in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition.
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2006. "Products, Processes and Practices: A Non-Reificatory Approach to Collective Memory."Biblical Theology Bulletin36: 5-14.
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1999. "Genre Memories and Memory Genres: A Dialogical Analysis of May 8, 1945 Commemorations in the Federal Republic of Germany."American Sociological Review64: 381-402.
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Olick, Jeffrey K., & Joyce Robbins .1998. "Social Memory Studies: From ‘Collective Memory’ to the Historical Sociology of Mnemonic Practices ." Annual Review of Sociology24: 105-40.
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Schwarz, Barry.2005a. "Christian Origins: Historical Truth and Social Memory ." Pp. 43-56 in Kirk & Thatcher.
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2005 b. "Jesus in First-Century Memory-A Response." Pp. 249-61 in Kirk & Thatcher.
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1996. "Memory as Cultural System: Abraham Lincoln in World War II,"American Sociologial Review61: 908-27.
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1991. "Social Change and Collective Memory: The Democratization of George Washington." American Sociological Review56: 221-36.
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Smith, Mark S.2004. The Memoirs of God: History, Memory and the Experience of the Divine in Ancient Israel. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press.
