City of Ruins

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18181-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 99, 231 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Biblical Interpretation Series

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.

Zielgruppe

Scholars of ancient Judaism, inter-Testamental literature, millenarian studies, and the impact of national trauma, especially those who infuse Biblical scholarship with social scientific interpretation or critical theory fom the humanities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Daschke, Dereck

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Identität & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Biblische & Klassische Periode

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: “If I Forget You, O Jerusalem”: Traumatic Memory and the Fall of Zion
Chapter One: Apocalyptic Melancholia and the Trauma of History
Chapter Two: Ezekiel: “Desolate Among Them”
Chapter Three: 4 Ezra: “Because of My Grief I Have Spoken”
Chapter Four: 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

Über Autor(innen)

Dereck Daschke, Ph.D. (2000) in Divinity, University of Chicago, is Chair of Philosophy & Religion at Truman State University. He most recently co-edited A Cry Instead of Justice: The Bible and Cultures of Violence in Psychological Perspective (T&T Clark, 2010).