By Dereck Daschke
ISBN-10: 9004181814
ISBN-13: 9789004181816
This psychoanalytic examine reads Jewish apocalypses as texts of mourning for the destruction of Jerusalem, arguing that the seers' stories of anxious loss, then visions of therapeutic and restoration, all paintings to accomplish the apocalyptic medication for historical J
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Perhaps, in this struggle, Ezekiel may serve as our guide. 40 Yet apocalypses reflect no mere individual breakdown or escape from reality. They indicate that, for some, the traditional symbol system of the culture is no longer adequate or stable. They respond to an anxious experience of cultural change by stepping out from the full current of the stream of time, introducing myth, schematization, and utopian ends in an effort to regain a sense of mastery over the meaning of history. A righteous representative of the people participates in a movement played out in a realm free from the harsh realities of the present, and is sometimes himself transformed, as with Enoch, or promised transformation, as with Daniel, or witnesses and enters into transformation, as in 4 Ezra.
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.
For the purposes of this study, it is not so important that the Zion Apocalypses sprung forth wholly-formed from the heads of their authors, so to speak, but that they are concerned with other realities, there is a strong emotional component to their concern that could resonate with others, and that they use these analytically favored forms—dreams, vision, one-on-one interpretation—to explore the issues they raise. apocalyptic melancholia and the trauma of history 33 from humanity, but it serves to conceal them in the same act.
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