Reshaping the Contemporary Cultural Memory: David in the Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum

The story and figure of David were remembered by several Hellenistic Jewish writings. The individual features in the single texts form a common picture (cultural memory) in two different periods. The first period lasts until the end of the second century BCE, the second one spans from the first century BCE to the first century CE. This paper seeks to answer the question as to what degree does the depiction of David in the LAB of Pseudo-Philo depend on the cultural memory of this period, and furthermore, in what way did this text shape the cultural memory of Pseudo-Philo’s time?