- Apr 2024
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substack.com substack.com
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The Collapse of the Key Bridge by [[Martha S. Jones]]
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- Mar 2024
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Monuments imperfectly record the past
Examples of this to collect in the future, including:
- Civil War monuments
- Pilgrim monument ( National Monument to the Forefathers) 1898 by Hammatt Billings (mentioned in White Trash)
- others...
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- Oct 2023
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claudemariottini.com claudemariottini.com
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after Jacob left Laban’s house with his wives Leah and Rachel. Laban pursued him to get back the idols that Rachel had stolen. After Laban was convinced that Jacob had not stolen his idols, Jacob and Laban make a covenant. “Jacob took a stone (ʼben) and set it up as a pillar (massebah) which would be a witness of the agreement they had made on that occasion (Genesis 31:44–45).
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Absalom set up a massebah for himself as a memorial for he said, “‘I have no son to keep my name in remembrance’; he called the massebah by his own name” (2 Samuel 18:18).
Use of massebah for remembrance of a name...
Potentially used for other factors? translation? context?
See also: https://hypothes.is/a/oqgH4mx9Ee68_dMgihgD0A (Rachel's massebah in Genesis 35:19-20)
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When Rachel died, Jacob set up a massebah at her grave; “it is the massebah of Rachel’s tomb, which is there to this day” (Genesis 35:19–20).
Use of a standing stone or massebah (pillar) to mark a grave in Genesis 35:19-20.
Certainly could have been other than to simply mark a location and may have been used to mark and remember the knowledge of Rachel as well as the family's experiences with Rachel, a practice which is still commonplace when visiting burial locations.
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When the people of Israel crossed the Jordan, Joshua commanded the people to set up twelve stones which were taken from the Jordan River as a memorial celebrating that defining moment in the life of Israel, the entrance of the people into the land God had promised to their ancestors (Joshua 4:20). The purpose of those memorial stones was to remind future generations of how the people “crossed the Jordan River on dry ground” (Joshua 4:22).
Description of the arrangement? Circle? Further or suggested usage?
Link to Genesis 28:18: https://hypothes.is/a/NF5p8Gx6Ee65Rg_J4tfaMQ
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When Jacob had a vision of God, he used a stone as a pillow, but after he woke up from his sleep, “he took the stone (ʼben) that he had put under his head and set it up for a pillar (massebah) and poured oil on the top of it” (Genesis 28:18). That stone became a memorial of Jacob’s encounter with God.
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- biblical stones
- archaeology of orality
- Joshua 4:20
- agreements
- Absalom
- 2 Samuel 18
- sacred stones
- Joshua 4
- memorials
- massebah
- 'ben
- monuments
- Leah
- orality and memory
- Genesis 35
- Genesis 28
- Jacob
- grave markers
- Rachel
- Laban
- standing stones
- stone circles
- Genesis 31:44-45
- headstones
- memorial stones
- stone memorials
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- Apr 2023
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www.kanopy.com www.kanopy.com
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57:17 I mean, when we think of the ways57:20 in which ISIS is not only using images for propaganda,57:25 to see a statue,57:28 both of historic worth and of aesthetic value57:32 being so destroyed,57:33 gives you a kind of visceral shock because you feel,57:37 not only the assault on our cultural heritage,57:39 but you feel the assault on the body.
Aby Warburg's views on art history and memory may have a lot to say with respect to our cultural movement of destroying and removing Civil War Monuments which glorify the "Lost Cause" of the South in the United States.
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- Jan 2019
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www.billtrack50.com www.billtrack50.com
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to create the Committee on Alabama Monument Protection
The members become arbiters when it comes to decisions about monuments and -- based on the ideology made clear by the name of the "Alabama Memorial Preservation Act -- the gatekeepers against renaming, re-contextualization, and removal.
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relocation, removal, alteration, renaming, or other disturbance
To paraphrase: The State, cities, and/or citizens can't change a monument/ memorial AT ALL, EVER.
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to exempt certain art and artifacts, the Department of Transportation, local governments, universities, and utilities under certain limited circumstances
This language and that related to "waivers," above, are where the authors of the act allow the possibility of changes in certain cases. But this is a careful parsing of language in the final portion of an act whose purpose is clear: the State of Alabama wants to guard against changes and reinforce barriers to re-naming/ re-contextualization/ removal with the full force of the law.
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- Jun 2015
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caseyboyle.net caseyboyle.net
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monument
Avital Ronell takes up Musil & monuments in the first few chapters of her book Stupidity.
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