City of ruins : mourning the destruction of Jerusalem through Jewish apocalypse

Publication Data

• Title City of ruins : mourning the destruction of Jerusalem through Jewish apocalypse
• Author Dereck Daschke
• Publisher Brill
• Publication date 2010
• Publication location Leiden
• Language English

Descriptive Notes

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago Divinity School, 2000.

Contents

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.

Topics

• Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)
• Apocalyptic literature :: History and criticism
• Eschatology, Jewish
• Judaism :: History :: Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.

City of ruins : mourning the destruction of Jerusalem through Jewish apocalypse by Dereck Daschke. ISBN 9789004181816. Published by Brill in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.