City of ruins : mourning the destruction of Jerusalem through Jewish apocalypse / by Dereck Daschke.
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TextSeries: Biblical interpretation series ; v. 99.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (x, 231 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - 9789004181991
- 9004181997
- 9789004181816
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- Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)
- Bible. Ezekiel -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Bible. Ezra -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Greek Apocalypse of Baruch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Temple de Jérusalem (Jérusalem)
- Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)
- Bible. Ezekiel
- Bible. Ezra
- Greek Apocalypse of Baruch
- Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch
- Griechische Baruchapokalypse
- Apocalyptic literature -- History and criticism
- Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
- Eschatology, Jewish
- Littérature apocalyptique -- Histoire et critique
- Judaïsme -- Histoire -- 586 av. J.-C.-210 (Période postexilique)
- Eschatologie juive
- RELIGION -- Judaism -- Sacred Writings
- RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament
- Apocalyptic literature
- Eschatology, Jewish
- Judaism -- Post-exilic period (Judaism)
- Apokalyptik
- Klagelied
- Biblische Theologie
- Jerusalem -- Zerstörung (581 v. Chr.)
- Jerusalem -- Zerstörung (70)
- 586 B.C.-210 A.D
- 221/.046 22
- BS1705 .D37 2010eb
- online - EBSCO
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-221) and index.
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.
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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