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Author Daschke, Dereck.

Title City of ruins [electronic resource] : mourning the destruction of Jerusalem through Jewish apocalypse / by Dereck Daschke.

Imprint Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

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Description x, 231 p. : ill.
Series Biblical interpretation series, 0928-0731 ; v. 99
Biblical interpretation series ; v. 99.
Note Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago Divinity School, 2000.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-221) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9789004181816 (hardback : alk. paper)
9004181814 (hardback : alk. paper)

 
    
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