City of ruins : mourning the destruction of Jerusalem through Jewish apocalypse /

This study addresses the way in which a psychoanalytic model of mourning relates to a set of Jewish apocalypses concerned with the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple. These texts respond to the traumatic symbolic loss of Zion and attempt to heal it through the apocalyptic narrative, the visiona...

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Main Author: Daschke, Dereck.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Series: Biblical Interpretation Series 99.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2010, ISBN: 9789004222731.

Subjects:

Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)

Bible. > O.T. > Ezekiel > Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible. > O.T. > Ezra > Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch > Criticism, interpretation, etc.