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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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| Colección: | Biblical interpretation series ;
v. 99. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 visionary experiences of the seers, and the emotional transformation that results from the interplay of the two. The seers react with rage, paralysis, and self-annihilating sentiments, and hence these texts resemble incomplete, stalled mourning, or melancholia. Through the course of their narratives and a. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 231 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-221) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004181991 9004181997 9789004181816 9004181814 |
| ISSN: | 0928-0731 ; |