The Primary History as Museum Exhibit:

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" The Primary History as Museum Exhibit: "
Andrew Tobolowsky

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1077977
Doc. No	:	LA121606
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700682-12341479‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Andrew Tobolowsky
Title & Author	:	The Primary History as Museum Exhibit: [Article] : Rethinking the Recovery of the Hebrew Bible’s Artifacts\ Andrew Tobolowsky
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Method Theory in the Study of Religion
Date	:	2020
Volume/ Issue Number	:	32/3
Page No	:	233–258
Abstract	:	The “Primary History” is the scholarly term for the biblical narrative spanning Genesis through Kings, created largely through the combination of pre-existing texts and traditions. This narrative has played a central role in scholarly reconstructions of the history of Israelite and Judahite traditions more generally because it is often possible to recover these pre-biblical traditions apparently intact. However, the recovery of pre-biblical traditions is a more complicated problem than typical approaches—which focus on the reconstruction of original texts—allow. Scholars also need to consider how the combination and arrangement of traditions has altered our perception of them, even when we can recover their original form. This article employs contemporary theoretical approaches to museum exhibits in order to explore how the combination and presentation of artifacts reshapes what they seem to mean, without physically altering them, and applies those lessons to the study of reconstructed pre-biblical texts. The “Primary History” is the scholarly term for the biblical narrative spanning Genesis through Kings, created largely through the combination of pre-existing texts and traditions. This narrative has played a central role in scholarly reconstructions of the history of Israelite and Judahite traditions more generally because it is often possible to recover these pre-biblical traditions apparently intact. However, the recovery of pre-biblical traditions is a more complicated problem than typical approaches—which focus on the reconstruction of original texts—allow. Scholars also need to consider how the combination and arrangement of traditions has altered our perception of them, even when we can recover their original form. This article employs contemporary theoretical approaches to museum exhibits in order to explore how the combination and presentation of artifacts reshapes what they seem to mean, without physically altering them, and applies those lessons to the study of reconstructed pre-biblical texts.
Descriptor	:	Biblical studies
Descriptor	:	Israelite history
Descriptor	:	museum theory
Descriptor	:	narrative theory
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700682-12341479‬