City of ruins
Subtitle: mourning the destruction of Jerusalem through Jewish apocalypse
By: by Dereck Daschke.
Series: Biblical interpretation series -- v. 99
Publisher: Brill; BRILL
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9789004181816
Subjects: Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem); Bible. -- O.T. -- 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. "If I forget you, O Jerusalem" : traumatic memory and the fall of Zion; title: I. One apocalyptic melancholia and the trauma of history; title: II. Ezekiel : "Desolate among them"; title: III. Ezra : "Because of my grief I have spoken"; title: IV. 2 and 3 Baruch : "Cease irritating God"; title: Conclusion. The apocalyptic cure : recovering the future by working-through the past; title: Epilogue. Apocalyptic melancholia and 9/11.