Authors: Dereck Daschke
ISBN-13: 9789004181816, ISBN-10: 9004181814
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: March 2010
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Dereck Daschke, Ph.D. (2000) in Divinity, University of Chicago, is Chair of Philosophy & Religion at Truman State University. He most recently co-edited A Cry Instead of Justice: The Bible and Cultures of Violence in Psychological Perspective (T&T Clark, 2010).
This psychoanalytic study reads Jewish apocalypses as texts of mourning for the destruction of Jerusalem, arguing that the seers' experiences of traumatic loss, then visions of healing and recovery, all work to achieve the ‘apocalyptic cure’ for ancient Jewish society.