Jerusalem, resilient city: remembering and rebuilding in exilic and post-exilic narratives

• Grant number: 21/13962-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: April 01, 2022
• End date: January 31, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Ancient and Medieval History
• Principal Investigator: Marcelo Aparecido Rede
• Grantee: Samuel de Barros Gandara
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 22/14356-0 - Laments and Penitential Prayers in Yehud: a social and literary development in Exilic e Post-Exilic Judahite community, BE.EP.MS

Abstract

This research project consists of understanding the relationship between collective trauma, memory and narrative constructions in the period of reconstruction of the city of Jerusalem in the Persian-Achaemenid period after its destruction by the Neo-Babylonian Empire at the end of the 6th century BC. It is intended to demonstrate that the reconstruction of the city is a memory phenomenon managed by a narrative and material apparatus that are entangled in historical relations of power and identity during the Judaite resettlement in the 5th and 4th century BC