If I Forget You, Jerusalem! - Studies on the Old Testament - Niels Peter Lemche
2. Emphatic Time in the Old Testament
If I Forget You, Jerusalem! - Studies on the Old Testament - Niels Peter Lemche
Niels Peter Lemche [+]
University of Copenhagen
Niels Peter Lemche, has been publishing in the field of Old Testament studies for fifty years. He has been both Assistant Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark, from 1978 to 1986 and Professor of Theology at the University of Copenhagen from 1987 to 2013. He is the founder of the Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament, and a member of the board of the Copenhagen International Seminar (Routledge). He has recently edited (in co-operation with Dr. Jim West) Jeremiah in History and Tradition (Routledge, 2019).
Description
Time is concept with more than one meaning. We have the precise reckoning of time, e.g., when does a train leave or arrive, and we have different idea about the time as the right moment of something. The second use is also a narrative phenomenon when time is used to structure a narrative. We find ideas about time in the Bible where we also find examples of the importance of imagined time to create history.