Holy Land Studies: A Multidisciplinary Journal

The Old Testament, in the author’s opinion, is not a historical document but a constructed fi ction from the times of the Greek-Roman domination of Canaan, starting with the manipulation of the collective memory with ideological autolegitimation means. However, this process of intentional re-memoration began by the editors of the text appears in diff erent materials from diff erent sources, in time and space that has some historical elements, similar to the etiological myths. To prove the hypothesis of the memory manipulation, the author analyses the implicit problematic in genealogical traditions in Genesis 10 y 11: 10–27 and the ‘history’ of the sons of Isaac in Genesis 35: 22–29 and Genesis 36.