Psalms In/On Jerusalem
Description
This volume explores the ways in which Jerusalem is represented in Psalms - from its position in the context of liturgical and pilgrim songs to its role as metaphor. Jerusalem in the Book of Psalms is the site of scenes of redemption, joy, and celebration of the proximity to God and the house of the Lord. But it is also the quintessential locus of loss, marked by cries over the devastating destruction of the Temple. These two antithetical poles of Jerusalem are expressed in both personal terms as well as within a collective framework. The bulk of the articles are devoted to questions of reception, to the ways in which the geographies of the Book of Psalms have travelled across their native bounds and entered other historical settings, acquiring new forms and meanings.
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Ilana Pardes , The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Ophir Münz-Manor , The Open University of Israel.
Content
- Intro
- Preface
- Contents
- Myth and Mimesis in the Psalm of Jonah
- His Highness: God's Voice and the Autoimmune in Two Royal Psalms
- "Take Pity on Zion, Rebuild the Walls of Jerusalem": A Late Antique Hebrew Elegy on the Destruction of Jerusalem
- Oral Tales and Written Truth in the Early Reception History of LXX Psalm 118(119)
- David and Jerusalem: From Psalms to the Zohar
- The Voice of the Psalmist: On the Performative Role of Psalms in Moses Mendelssohn's Jerusalem
- Rosenzweig's Reading of Psalm 115: The Gruesome "We"
- Paul Celan, the Last Psalmist
- "By the Waters of Babylon": The Amnesia of Memory
- Appendix: Selected Psalms on Jerusalem (translated by Robert Alter)
- Notes on Contributors
