Memory and Covenant: The Role of Israel's and God's memory in Sustaining the Deuteronomic and Priestly Covenants

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MEMORY AND COVENANT MEMORY AND COVENANT THE ROLE OF ISRAEL'S AND GOD'S MEMORY IN SUSTAINING THE DEUTERONOMIC AND PRIESTLY COVENANTS BARAT ELLMAN Fortress Press Minneapolis MEMORY AND COVENANT The Role of Israel’s and God’s Memory in Sustaining the Deuteronomic and Priestly Covenants Copyright © 2013 Fortress Press. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Visit http://www.augsburgfortress.org/copyrights/ or write to Permissions, Augsburg Fortress, Box 1209, Minneapolis, MN 55440. Cover design: Alisha Lofgren Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available Print ISBN: 978-1-4514-6561-7 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4514-6959-2 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences — Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z329.48-1984. Manufactured in the U.S.A. This book was produced using PressBooks.com, and PDF rendering was done by PrinceXML. For my mother, on her twelfth yartzeit 2 Iyar 5773 ‫ָם‬‫ת‬ ּ ‫ד‬ ְ ַ‫ב‬ֲ‫ע‬‫ו‬ ַ ‫רים‬ ִ ֵ‫ח‬ֲ‫א‬ ‫ִים‬‫ה‬ֹ‫ל‬ֱ‫א‬ ‫רי‬ ֵ ֲ‫ח‬ַ‫א‬ ָ‫ת‬ ּ ְ‫כ‬ַ‫ל‬ָ‫ה‬‫ו‬ ְ ‫ך‬ ָ ‫ֶי‬‫ה‬ֹ‫ל‬ֱ‫א‬ ‘‫ה‬-‫ֶת‬‫א‬ ‫ַח‬‫כ‬ ּ ְ‫ש‬ ׁ ִ‫ת‬ ּ ַ‫ח‬ֹ‫כ‬ָ‫ש‬ ׁ -‫ִם‬‫א‬ ‫יה‬ ָ ָ‫ה‬‫ו‬ ְ ‫ון‬ ּ ‫ֵד‬‫ב‬‫ֹא‬‫ת‬ ּ ‫ֹד‬‫ב‬ָ‫א‬ ‫ִי‬‫כ‬ ּ ‫ם‬ֹ‫יו‬ ּ ַ‫ה‬ ‫ֵם‬‫כ‬ָ‫ב‬ ‫ִי‬‫ת‬ֹ‫ד‬ִ‫ע‬ַ‫ה‬ ‫ֶם‬‫ה‬ָ‫ל‬ ָ‫ת‬‫וי‬ ִ ֲ‫ח‬ַ‫ת‬ ּ ְ‫ש‬ ׁ ִ‫ה‬‫ו‬ ְ If you indeed forget Yahweh your God and walk after other gods and serve them and worship them, I swear to you this day that you will surely perish. —Deut. 8:19 ‫ָם‬‫ה‬‫ר‬ ָ ְ‫ב‬ַ‫א‬ ‫ִי‬‫ת‬‫רי‬ ִ ְ‫ב‬ ּ -‫ֶת‬‫א‬ ‫ַף‬‫א‬‫ו‬ ְ ‫ָק‬‫ח‬ְ‫צ‬‫י‬ ִ ‫ִי‬‫ת‬‫רי‬ ִ ְ‫ב‬ ּ -‫ֶת‬‫א‬ ‫ַף‬‫א‬‫ו‬ ְ ‫ב‬ֹ‫ֲקו‬‫ע‬‫י‬ ַ ‫ִי‬‫ת‬‫רי‬ ִ ְ‫ב‬ ּ -‫ֶת‬‫א‬ ‫ִי‬‫ת‬ ּ ‫ר‬ ְ ַ‫כ‬‫ז‬ ָ ‫ו‬ ְ ‫ֹר‬‫כ‬ ּ ‫ז‬ ְ ֶ‫א‬ ‫רץ‬ ֶ ָ‫א‬ָ‫ה‬‫ו‬ ְ ‫ֹר‬‫כ‬ ּ ‫ז‬ ְ ֶ‫א‬ I will remember my covenant with Jacob and also my covenant with Isaac and also my covenant with Abraham I will remember, and the land I will remember. —Lev. 26:421 1. All translations and renderings of the Hebrew text are my own except where otherwise indicated. ...