| City of Ruins: Mourning the Destruction of Jerusalem Through Jewish Apocalypse Contributor(s): Daschke, Dereck (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004181814 ISBN-13: 9789004181816 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $155.80 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Biblical Studies - Old Testament - General - Religion | Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - Old Testament |
| Dewey: 221.046 |
| LCCN: 2009049039 |
| Series: Biblical Interpretation |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.5" W x 9.6" (1.15 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |