City of ruins :

Daschke, Dereck.

City of ruins : mourning the destruction of Jerusalem through Jewish apocalypse / by Dereck Daschke. - Leiden : Brill, 2010. - x, 231 p. ; 25 cm. - Biblical interpretation series ; v. 99. . - Biblical interpretation series ; v. 99. .

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.

9789004181816 (hardback : alk. paper) 9004181814 (hardback : alk. paper)

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Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)


Bible.--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, Jewish.

BS1705 / .D37 2010

221.046