City of ruins : mourning the destruction of Jerusalem through Jewish apocalypse / / by Dereck Daschke.
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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| Superior document: | Biblical interpretation series, v. 99 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Biblical interpretation series ;
v. 99. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Notes: | Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago Divinity School, 2000. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.