Reader Checked|19/11/2012 SE
According to the current scholarly consensus, the apocalypse of 2 Baruch, written after the Fall of Jerusalem, either rejected the concept of the Land of Israel as a place of salvation or regarded it as of minor importance. Inspired by the perspective of Critical Spatial Theory, this book discusses the presuppositions behind this consensus with regard to the spatial epistemology it assumes, and explores the conception of the Land as a broad redemptive category. The result is a fresh portrait of the vitality of the Land-theme in the first centuries of the common era and a new perspective on the spatial imagination of 2 Baruch.
Contents: 2 Baruch and the Land -- Questioning Survival: The Land in yhe Context of Destruction -- The Lands of the Righteous Kings -- The City of the Pillar and the Wall: Landscapes of the End-Time -- ‘Here With Me’: The Last Days of Baruch -- The Messianic Land: Transforming the Remnant and the World -- From Egypt to Life: The Heavenly, Paradisiacal, Land -- Conclusion: the Other Lands of Israel.|Read more: http://books.google.co.il/books?id=BIT66nR380sC&printsec=frontcover&hl=…