Memory -- Papers Read at the Jewish and Christian Perspectives Conference, Utrecht 2022

Memory – Papers Read at the Jewish and Christian Perspectives Conference, Utrecht 2022 connects past, present, and future. This conference volume demonstrates the diversity of ‘memory’ in the Jewish and Christian traditions. ‘Memory’ turns out to be a key to investigating and better understanding many aspects of Judaism and Christianity, including their mutual relationship. In these traditions, memory is not simply about recalling events, but about preserving identity, culture, and divine teachings. The act of remembering is central to how communities pass down their religious beliefs, laws, and moral frameworks across generations. It also plays a role in communal cohesion, ensuring that the experiences of the fathers and their wisdom would not get lost, but rather actively re-lived and celebrated.

Ari Ackerman, Ph.D. (2001), is the president of Schechter Institute in Jerusalem and a lecturer in Jewish philosophy and education. He received his Ph.D. in Jewish thought from Hebrew University and has published and edited multiple books and articles on various aspects of medieval and modern Jewish thought. He is the author of Hasdai Crescas on Codification, Cosmology and Creation (Brill, 2022).
Robin B. ten Hoopen, Ph.D. (2025), is a minister of the Protestant Church in Bergambacht, the Netherlands, and an associate professor at the Protestant Theological University Utrecht. His specializations include notions of immortality in the ANE and HB, Genesis 1–11, and the study of the HB in the ANE. He has published articles in (a.o.) the Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, and Ugarit Forschungen.
Lieve M. Teugels, Ph.D. (1994) is a professor of Jewish Studies at the Protestant Theological University in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on rabbinic literature, mainly midrash. She often deals with literature and ideas at the intersection of Judaism and Christianity, or “the partings of the ways” in the first centuries CE.
Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen, Ph.D. (1993), is a Professor of Old Testament at the School of Catholic Theology, Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He has published especially on prophetic literature and communication-oriented analysis. He is the co-editor of Teaching and Tradition: On their Dynamic Interaction (Brill, 2023) and Themes and Texts in Luke-Acts (Brill, 2023) and co-author along with Frank G. Bosman of Video Games as Art (De Gruyter, 2022).