This volume presents the proceedings of an international conference of the same title held at the University of Birmingham in 2007. The contributors are drawn from the ranks of leading intenational specialists in the field writing alongside promising younger scholars. The volume…
Introduction. "If I forget you, O Jerusalem" : traumatic memory and the fall of Zion -- I. One 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" -…
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.
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 n…
