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 Paradigm
14 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