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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Daschke, Dereck
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Collection:Biblical interpretation series ; v. 99.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction. "If I forget you, O Jerusalem" : traumatic memory and the fall of Zion
  • I. Apocalyptic melancholia and the trauma of history
  • II. Ezekiel : "Desolate among them"
  • III. Ezra : "Because of my grief I have spoken"
  • IV. 2 and 3 Baruch : "Cease irritating God"
  • Conclusion. The apocalyptic cure : recovering the future by working-through the past
  • Epilogue. Apocalyptic melancholia and 9/11.