Ancient Judaism between Christian Memory and Jewish Forgetting – Annette Yoshiko Reed
Ancient Judaism between Christian Memory and Jewish Forgetting – Annette Yoshiko Reed
Drawing on her in-progress book project on Forgetting, this seminar will explore the place of memory and forgetting in the reception of Second Temple Judaism, revisiting the supposed Rabbinic retreat from “history” after the Roman destruction of the Temple in 70 CE and exploring Christian and Jewish contestation over pre-70 Jewish pasts, from antiquity to...