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

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.
Greek Apocalypse of Baruch > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Apocalyptic literature > History and criticism.
Judaism > History > Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
Eschatology, Jewish.

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Call Number: BS1705 .D37 2010

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • D. Daschke
  • Introduction. "If I Forget You, O Jerusalem": Traumatic Memory And The Fall Of Zion /
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  • Chapter One. Apocalyptic Melancholia And The Trauma Of History /
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  • Chapter Two. Ezekiel: "Desolate Among Them" /
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  • Chapter Three. 4 Ezra: "Because Of My Grief I Have Spoken" /
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  • Chapter Four. 2 And 3 Baruch: "Cease Irritating God" /
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  • Conclusion The Apocalyptic Cure: Recovering The Future /
  • Working-Through The Past
  • Epilogue Apocalyptic Melancholia And 9/11 /
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  • Bibliography /
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  • Index /
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