Psalms In/On Jerusalem

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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. Most 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. 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