UID:
almahu_9949702418202882
Umfang:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004181991
Serie:
Biblical interpretation series, v. 99
Inhalt:
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 'working-through' of the Jewish past, true mourning and psychological recovery occur, prompting visions of the establishment of an ideal society in the future.
Anmerkung:
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago Divinity School, 2000.
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Preliminary Material /
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Introduction. "If I Forget You, O Jerusalem": Traumatic Memory And The Fall Of Zion /
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Chapter One. Apocalyptic Melancholia And The Trauma Of History /
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Chapter Two. Ezekiel: "Desolate Among Them" /
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Chapter Three. 4 Ezra: "Because Of My Grief I Have Spoken" /
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Chapter Four. 2 And 3 Baruch: "Cease Irritating God" /
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Conclusion The Apocalyptic Cure: Recovering The Future /
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Epilogue Apocalyptic Melancholia And 9/11 /
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Bibliography /
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Index /
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: City of Ruins: Mourning the Destruction of Jerusalem Through Jewish Apocalypse Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2010, ISBN 9789004181816
Sprache:
Englisch
