tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637125351921336084.post7739719348688675572..comments2024-03-19T00:26:30.753-07:00Comments on The Jesus Blog: My Reply to Larry Behrendt's Review of my Book - Le DonneAnthony Le Donnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01282792648606976883noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637125351921336084.post-25649506603872362432013-03-21T11:17:45.803-07:002013-03-21T11:17:45.803-07:00For those interested, there are some terrific comm...For those interested, there are some terrific comments to Anthony's guest post over at my site.<br /><br />Anthony, having thought further about this, my present questions focus on the impact of memory-history on religious belief and practice. As a historian, you raise a particular set of issues when you say that "memory is what happened". But as a practicing Jew (and thinking about this from your perspective, as a believing Christian), the question of "what actually happened" has a different set of implications. <br /><br />I might say that from a historical standpoint, "what actually happened" with the Exodus is what Jews and Christians remember having happened, and also what Romans and Egyptians remember having happened. But this Monday is the first night of Passover, where Jews are supposed to remember BEING slaves in Egypt, and this may not be the same thing as remembering that we remember being slaves in Egypt.<br /><br />From a religious standpoint, do we come to understand religious faith/belief in terms of memory, and religious difference in terms of differences in memory/memory refraction? Does religion work if memory is our answer to "what actually happened?"Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08976868079076669453noreply@blogger.com