<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=563622" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Memory Of Absences</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Memory of absences can sear<br>the unforgetting mind far more<br>than presences of power we revere, <br>and images we can ignore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Inspired by the phrase “memory of absences” which Robert Alter used in a talk to the Association of Jewish Studies in which he spoke about the collective memory of the Israelites that the Deuteronomist inspired. Alter used the phrase “memory of absences” and highlighted the importance of the Deuteronomist’s rhetoric used to advance his program to purge Israel of all images.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Robert Alter’s response to the poem was as follows: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dear Gershon, </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Your poem is the highest compliment that could be paid to a lecture. One question: is 'that' at the beginning of the third line a typo for 'than'? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Cordially, </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Bob Alter</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He had picked up a typo that I had missed, signs of a great textual scholar! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">12/16/02</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gershon+Hepner">Gershon Hepner</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=563622" data-title="Memory Of Absences de Gershon Hepner" data-description="Memory of absences can sear the unforgetting mind far more than presences of power we revere, and images we can ignore. Inspired by the phrase “memory of absences” which Robert Alter used in a talk to the Association of Jewish Studies in wh..."></div> </div> </div>

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