If I Forget You, Jerusalem! - Studies on the Old Testament - Niels Peter Lemche
5. Old Testament Texts as Rewritten Literature
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
It has always been popular to study how biblical literature was rewritten in later writings beginning with Jewish rewriting from antiquity. The focus in this chapter is rewriting within the Old Testament itself which both involves the rewriting of stories of the Bible but also in the rewriting of Israel’s history in Chronicles based on the deuteronomistic version. However, also non-biblical literature was rewritten, such as the Gilgamash epos in the story of the flood in Genesis.