Jewish Studies

Jenna Kemp theorizes the formation of the Bible as a process of cultural memory in which forgetting is central. By examining secondary additions, it situates biblical scribes as figures who mediate the memory of texts. They remember text, add to it, and change how it can be remembered in the future.

How can we change our minds about the standards we use to change our minds? Leading scholars from various fields discuss the far-reaching implications of the elegant, groundbreaking solution philosophers Menachem Fisch and Yizhak Benbaji have found for this paradox.

This volume contains three sources and studies drawn from the late medieval records of the Benedictine convent of Lüne near Lüneburg - the edition of the statute book with the rites of admission to the monastic community, the diary of the prioress Mechthild Wilde about her own election, and a study on the networks of the Lüne provosts, especially with regard to their acquisition of benefices.