City of ruins [electronic resource] : mourning the destruction of Jerusalem through Jewish apocalypse / by Dereck Daschke.
By: Daschke, Dereck.
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BookSeries: Biblical interpretation series: v. 99.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010Description: x, 231 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Subject(s): Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem) | Bible. O.T. Ezekiel -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Bible. O.T. Ezra -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Greek Apocalypse of Baruch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Apocalyptic literature -- History and criticism | Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D | Eschatology, JewishGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 221/.046 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago Divinity School, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
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