Preface

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Myth and Mimesis in the Psalm of Jonah 1
5. His Highness: God’s Voice and the Autoimmune in Two Royal Psalms 11
6. “Take Pity on Zion, Rebuild the Walls of Jerusalem”: A Late Antique Hebrew Elegy on the Destruction of Jerusalem 27
7. Oral Tales and Written Truth in the Early Reception History of LXX Psalm 118(119) 43
8. David and Jerusalem: From Psalms to the Zohar 67
9. The Voice of the Psalmist: On the Performative Role of Psalms in Moses Mendelssohn’s Jerusalem 109
10. Rosenzweig’s Reading of Psalm 115: The Gruesome “We” 135
11. Paul Celan, the Last Psalmist 143
12. “By the Waters of Babylon”: The Amnesia of Memory 153
13. Appendix: Selected Psalms on Jerusalem (translated by Robert Alter) 165
14. Notes on Contributors 189