If I Forget You, Jerusalem!

Niels Peter Lemche, has been publishing in the field of Old Testament studies for fifty years. He has been both Assistant Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark, from 1978 to 1986 and Professor of Theology at the University of Copenhagen from 1987 to 2013. He is the founder and present editor of the Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament (since 1987), and a member of the board of the Copenhagen International Seminar (Routledge). He has recently edited (in co-operation with Dr. Jim West) Jeremiah in History and Tradition (Routledge, 2019).

• Preface Jerusalem 1 “If I forget you, Jerusalem!” Exegesis 2 Emphatic Time in the Old Testament 3 Justice as Pre-existing World Order 4 Messiah in the Book of Isaiah 5 Old Testament Texts as Rewritten Literature 6 Psalm 2: Between Past and Future 7 The Introduction to David’s Psalms: New Reflections on Psalm 2 8 Sociology and Prophetic Literature History 9 History and Memory in the Old Testament 10 On History, Sociology, and Theology: Old Testament Perspectives 11 On Historical Memory in the Historiography of the Old Testament 12 Ezra and the Pentateuch 13 What Have We Done and Where are We Moving? Personal Remarks about a Change of Paradigm14 Après le déluge: The Copenhagen School or Chaos? Theology 15 The History of Israel’s religion and the History of Israel: Identical or Different 16 Geography as Memory 17 Israel and Its Land 18 Israel as an Ideological Construction 19 The Relevance of Social-critical Exegesis for Old Testament Theology Appendix 272 BCE – A terminus a quo