Memory Papers Read at the Jewish and Christian Perspectives Conference, Utrecht 2022 connects past, present, and future. This conference volume demonstrates the diversity of memory in the Jewish and Christian traditions. Memory turns out to be a key to investigating and better understanding many aspects of Judaism and Christianity, including their mutual relationship. In these traditions, memory is not simply about recalling events, but about preserving identity, culture, and divine teachings. The act of remembering is central to how communities pass down their religious beliefs, laws, and moral frameworks across generations. It also plays a role in communal cohesion, ensuring that the experiences of the fathers and their wisdom would not get lost, but rather actively re-lived and celebrated.
Contents
1 Memory a Basic Key to Understanding Times and Traditions
An Introduction
Ari Ackerman, Robin ten Hoopen, Lieve Teugels and Archibald van Wieringen
2 Are Tomb Monuments a Form of Memory in Biblical Texts?
Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen and Bart J. Koet
3 Remembering the Exodus
Mitsrayim as Land of Anxiety
Lieve Teugels and Robin ten Hoopen
4 Reading between the Lines
Lessons from History in Targum Isaiah
Alberdina Houtman
5The Differences between Josephus Temple Descriptions in War and
Antiquities
A Literary-Spatial Analysis
Eyal Regev
6 Aaron Remembered
On the Development of the Characterisation of Aaron the Priest as a Lover of
Peace in Rabbinic Literature
Adiel Kadari
7 What I Saw, I Forgot What I Heard
Memory, Forgetfulness, and Recollection in Early Rabbinic Narrative
Reuven Kiperwasser
8 To Remember the Forgotten
Loss of Knowledge in Tannaitic Literature
Tamar Kadari
9 Some Ideas on Remembering and Forgetting in Chassidism
Leon Mock zl
10 Memory and the Other in Levinas Commentary on the Talmud
Marcel Poorthuis
11 Cultural Memory in Hebrew Childrens Literature
A Dialectic between Original Creation and Adaptation
Vered Tohar
12 From the Absent God to the Absent Text
Agnon and the Writing of Catastrophe
Yaniv Hagbi
13 Forgetful Remembrance in the Dutch Theological Debate on Colonial Slavery
Preliminary Results of a Quantitative Approach
Martijn J. Stoutjesdijk
14 Being Is Remembering
On Lockes Theory of Consciousness, Mnemohistory, and the Game Remember Me
Frank G. Bosman
15 Jewishness and Israeliness in the Development of Israels Sacred
Landscape
Doron Bar
16 Imagining a Prehistoric Worldview
Gert van Klinken
Index of References
Index of Modern Authors
Ari Ackerman, Ph.D. (2001), is the president of Schechter Institute in Jerusalem and a lecturer in Jewish philosophy and education. He received his Ph.D. in Jewish thought from Hebrew University and has published and edited multiple books and articles on various aspects of medieval and modern Jewish thought. He is the author of Hasdai Crescas on Codification, Cosmology and Creation (Brill, 2022).
Robin B. ten Hoopen, Ph.D. (2025), is a minister of the Protestant Church in Bergambacht, the Netherlands, and an associate professor at the Protestant Theological University Utrecht. His specializations include notions of immortality in the ANE and HB, Genesis 111, and the study of the HB in the ANE. He has published articles in (a.o.) the Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, and Ugarit Forschungen.
Lieve M. Teugels, Ph.D. (1994) is a professor of Jewish Studies at the Protestant Theological University in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on rabbinic literature, mainly midrash. She often deals with literature and ideas at the intersection of Judaism and Christianity, or the partings of the ways in the first centuries CE.
Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen, Ph.D. (1993), is a Professor of Old Testament at the School of Catholic Theology, Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He has published especially on prophetic literature and communication-oriented analysis. He is the co-editor of Teaching and Tradition: On their Dynamic Interaction (Brill, 2023) and Themes and Texts in Luke-Acts (Brill, 2023) and co-author along with Frank G. Bosman of Video Games as Art (De Gruyter, 2022).
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