| Description |
1 online resource (x, 231 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Biblical interpretation series,
0928-0731 ;
v. 99
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Biblical interpretation series ; v. 99.
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| Note |
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago Divinity School, 2000. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-221) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)
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Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem) |
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Bible. Ezekiel -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Bible. Ezekiel. |
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Bible. Ezra -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Bible. Ezra. |
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Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch. |
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Greek Apocalypse of Baruch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Greek Apocalypse of Baruch. |
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Bible. Ezekiel. |
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Bible. Ezra. |
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Greek Apocalypse of Baruch. |
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Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch. |
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Griechische Baruchapokalypse. |
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Apocalyptic literature -- History and criticism.
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Apocalyptic literature. |
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Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
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Eschatology, Jewish.
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Eschatology, Jewish. |
| Chronological Term |
586 B.C.-210 A.D |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Daschke, Dereck. City of ruins. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010 9789004181816 (DLC) 2009049039 (OCoLC)468857415 |
| ISBN |
9789004181991 (electronic book) |
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9004181997 (electronic book) |
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9789004181816 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9004181814 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786612786679 |
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