City of ruins : mourning the destruction of Jerusalem through Jewish apocalypse / by Dereck Daschke.
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TextSeries: Biblical interpretation series ; v. 99.Publication details: Leiden : Brill, 2010.Description: x, 231 p. ; 25 cmISBN: - 9789004181816 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9004181814 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 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
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- BS1705 .D37 2010
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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.