Memories Mirrored in a Ripling Pond
April Deconick over at Forbidden Gospels is causing some ripples in the blogospheric space-time in her discussions on memory. You can see her postings here and more fully elaborated here . She sees this as the future, at least in part, of biblical studies. In fact, she has promised to send me some references on memory reconstruction for my own work on the persistence and transformation of mythic patterns of, well, let's just say holy/heavenly space-time in ancient Jewish and Christian literature. She is receiving a response from the blogosphere. The infamously pseudonymous NTWrong has responded quite warmly to her contagious enthusiasm for memory studies, comparing the modernity / antiquity transference difficulty with the "middle range theory" of how artifacts relate to culture in modernity and antiquity, a theory with unsure results, but perhaps with a more robust method than individual idiosyncrasies that tend to dominate the field. "Wrong" gives the sl...