Campus Location
Abilene Campus (Residential)
Date of Award
5-2021
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4483-1546
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Committee Chair or Primary Advisor
Mark Hamilton
Second Committee Member or Secondary Advisor
Jeffrey Childers
Third Committee Member or Committee Reader
Christopher Rollston
Abstract
This thesis seeks to describe the Jacob narrative through the lens of memory. Taking Gen 28:10-22 as a case study, the objective is to place Jacob’s visit to Bethel alongside other ancient referential claims, analyzing it for authentic memories. However, the complex nature of memory is susceptible to preservation and revision. That is to say, having no desire to comport to modern historical-critical sensibilities, memory’s epistemological underpinnings are concerned primarily with reconstructing a remembered past for subsequent generations of Israelite tradents. In order to understand the historical background to the Jacob narrative in its entirety, a formal analysis of Iron Age scribal practices is employed, that is, the type of knowledge innate in Iron Age sources—oral and written—as well as the function of alphabetic prose narrative texts. Finally, the conclusion reached in this thesis is that the Jacob narrative contains early and late features that resonate well with memory’s trappings.
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Recommended Citation
Borbon, Isaac, "Remembering Jacob: The Literary Representation of Memory in the Jacob Narrative" (2021). Digital Commons @ ACU, Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 347.
https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/etd/347
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