Josiah - From Improbable Stories to Inventive Historiography - Lowell K. Handy
Creating Memories of Josiah
Josiah - From Improbable Stories to Inventive Historiography - Lowell K. Handy
Lowell K. Handy [+]
Loyola University Chicago (retired)
Lowell K. Handy received his M.A. from the University of Iowa School of Religion and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Divinity School. Before retirement he taught for 15 years at Loyola University Chicago and was employed at the American Theological Library Association Religion Index Project for 28 years. He has been an active member of the Chicago Society of Biblical Research, Society of Biblical Literature, and American Schools of Oriental Research. In addition to journal articles and reference entries, Dr. Handy has published several books, including: Among the Host of Heaven: The Syro-Palestinian Pantheon as Bureaucracy; Entertaining Faith: Reading Short Stories in the Bible; Jonah's World: Social Science and the Reading of Prophetic Story; and edited volumes: The Age of Solomon: Scholarship at the Turn of the Millennium; Psalm 29 through Time and Tradition.
Description
This is the conclusion to the book. Josiah as he is written about to create the memory of this functioning king of Judah is the object of the chapter. Kings, Chronicles, First Esdras, and Josephus form the basis for later “memories.” What, then, do the users of these originators of Josiah's memory take from them that is to be used for creating the revised memory visions of much later times.