Memoria e identidad. Relecturas del pasado para la construcción de un futuro: Deuteronomio 26,5-9, Salmo 105 y Hechos 7,2-53

Résumé

The biblical story has a particular strength. Already Erich Auerbach in his Mimesis (1940) called attention to it when comparing Homeric and Biblical literature. The analysis of the verses of the "Scar of Ulysses" and the narration of the "Sacrifice of Isaac" throw, even today, a lot of light on the depth of the sacred history. In the Bible itself summaries are made of the history of the people that update the common identity ina specific point of history to configure an adequate approach to the present. Currently, within the culture inheriting modernity, we live in an environment hostile to everything that makes reference to tradition. Contemporary man lived a time devoted to reason and today lives in a deep crisis of identity. For centuries, the identity itself was kept alive and updated in a continuous self-rereading. We will analyze three biblical texts: Dt 26,5b-9; Sal 105 and Ac 7,2-53. The origin of everything, for the men of the Bible, speaks of a journey in the midst of difficulties, of pilgrims in strange lands, of welcome and rejection, of possession and dispossession of the earth, etc. Contemporary events present us with new exoduses that remind us of the one from which Western culture originates.