@article{741d92f16f894fd78b2ed6e8d3c738f7,
title = "When the End is the Beginning: Creating a National History",
abstract = "Contrary to Kierkegaards words about living history forwards, although writing it backwards, biblical scholars have followed a different path, not understanding the implications of writing history backwards. Instead they have seen the biblical history as if it was written as a running commentary on the fate of ancient Israel as history progressed. Israels history as told by Old Testament historiographers is not reflecting the progress of history; it is cultural memory constructing this history backwards and building on institutional models present in the time of these historiographers, such as the Greek amphictyony. Thus Martin Noth was after all right: Israel is reconstructed as an amphictyony in biblical historiography, although there never was an Israelite amphictyony in the real world.",
keywords = "Faculty of Theology, Kierkegaard, historieskrivning, kulturel erindring, amfiktyoni",
author = "Lemche, {Niels Peter}",
year = "2015",
month = jan,
day = "2",
language = "English",
volume = "29",
pages = "22--32",
journal = "Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament",
issn = "0901-8328",
publisher = "Taylor & Francis Scandinavia",
number = "1",
}