Posted by 
By Dereck Daschke
This psychoanalytic learn reads Jewish apocalypses as texts of mourning for the destruction of Jerusalem, arguing that the seers' reports of annoying loss, then visions of therapeutic and restoration, all paintings to accomplish the apocalyptic remedy for historic J
Read or Download City of Ruins: Mourning the Destruction of Jerusalem Through Jewish Apocalypse (Biblical Interpretation Series) PDF
Similar jewish books
New Jewish Identities: Contemporary Europe and Beyond
This number of essays offers with the complicated difficulties hooked up to the query of Jewish id within the modern global. in line with a convention held in Budapest, Hungary in July 2001, it analyses and compares how Jews conceive in their Jewishness. Do they see it in generally non secular, cultural or ethnic phrases?
A highly-praised retelling of the Hanukkah tale with vivid, colourful photos and dialogue tops and inquiries to improve all of the eight nights of occasion. With candle benefits, ideas for enjoying dreidel, recipes for ltakes and sufganiyot (jelly donuts), phrases and track to favourite Hanukkah songs -- plus ideas on being loose, being assorted, miracles, legends, heroes, presents, gelt, and giving.
This can be a cautious exam of the doctrine of Jewish chosenness within the gentle of Gersonides's concept on providential pain and on inherited windfall. Gersonides is among the finest and significant philosophers of the later Jewish heart a while. Gersonides was once one of many highbrow giants of the medieval Jewish global, a philosopher of outstanding range and ingenuity.
Speaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of an American Public Identity
Lila Corwin Berman asks why, over the process the 20 th century, American Jews turned more and more interested, even obsessed, with explaining themselves to their non-Jewish buddies. What she discovers is that language itself grew to become an important software for Jewish team survival and integration into American lifestyles.
- Diasporas of the Mind: Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the Nightmare of History
- The Kierkegaardian Author: Authorship and Performance in Kierkegaard’s Literary and Dramatic Criticism
- Autonomy and Judaism: The Individual and the Community in Jewish Philosophical Thought
- The Jews of France: A History from Antiquity to the Present.
- Noah and the Ziz
Additional resources for City of Ruins: Mourning the Destruction of Jerusalem Through Jewish Apocalypse (Biblical Interpretation Series)
Example text
As it happens, this depiction perfectly describes the worldview of the apocalypse, where the truth is revealed from the sacred world in a distorted way to refute the falsehood of corrupted world around us. This unconsciously determined reality erupts into mundane reality in dream or vision form (or the apocalyptic seer is translated into the heavenly realm for its direct experience, often by the same means). 6 The symbolic nature of the material not only reveals the divine mysteries hidden 6 Several authors attempt to set criteria for ‘authentic visions,’ of which Daniel Harlow (The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch [3 Baruch] in Hellenistic Judaism and Early Christianity [Leiden: Brill, 1996], 19–20) provides a succinct review, here summarized.
3 Kille, Biblical Criticism, 14. apocalyptic melancholia and the trauma of history 31 and apocalypses often reports the seer’s disturbed emotional state in the wake of his visions. The unifying feature of the Zion Apocalypses, the theme of loss and mourning, is in fact quite overt and distinctive in the depiction of the apocalypticians. Hence the three entry points into Biblical psychological criticism that Kille presents are evinced in an amplified and deeply integrated way in these texts and other apocalypses.
Id=ghost-stories-visitsfrom-the-deceased. 30 Freud, “Mourning,” 245; emphasis in original. 31 Technically, Freud speaks not of the self but of the ego (‘das Ich; Freud, “Mourning,” 256). Generally speaking, Freud conceived of the ego as a much more circumscribed psychological entity than how we commonly think of the self, which designates a kind of ‘core being’ or authentic personality. ’ Melancholia is an affliction of loss at the core of being, demonstrating a “narcissistic type of object-choice” (Freud, “Mourning,” 250).