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Song of exile [electronic resource] : the enduring mystery of Psalm 137 / David W. Stowe.

Stowe, David W. (David Ware), author.
2016
BS1450 137th .S76 2016eb
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Title
Song of exile [electronic resource] : the enduring mystery of Psalm 137 / David W. Stowe.
Author
Stowe, David W. (David Ware), author.
ISBN
9780190466862 (electronic book)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190466831
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 214 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190466831 doi
Call Number
BS1450 137th .S76 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
223.206
Summary
No poem has exerted a more sustained pull on the political imagination of people around the world than Psalm 137. 'Song of Exile' is an archaeology of this enduring text, which opens a window on the Babylonian exile 2500 years ago - a crucial event for the formation of Judaism - and has been a siren song to musicians, artists, writers, theologians, and leaders. This book unpacks the subtle ways in which memory of the exile has affected the self-understanding of Jews, Christians, and other displaced communities.
Note
No poem has exerted a more sustained pull on the political imagination of people around the world than Psalm 137. 'Song of Exile' is an archaeology of this enduring text, which opens a window on the Babylonian exile 2500 years ago - a crucial event for the formation of Judaism - and has been a siren song to musicians, artists, writers, theologians, and leaders. This book unpacks the subtle ways in which memory of the exile has affected the self-understanding of Jews, Christians, and other displaced communities.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 26, 2016).
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Part One: History :
Mapping history
Comprehending migration
Babylonia
In Nebuchadnezzar's court
By the Kebar
People of the land
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Strange lands
Existential exile
Rivers of Watertown
Rivers of reggae
Part Two: Memory :
Commanding memory
New World Babylon
American Jeremiah
Africa as new Israel
Dvořák's Psalm
Million dollar voice
Moses or Jeremiah
Exodus or exile
Memory coerced
"Wood Street"
Part Three: Forgetting :
Revisiting a vanished world
Parsing the unspeakable
Allegorical answers
The Reformation turn
American vengeance
Our better angels
Sepulchers of memory
Theologies of vengeance
After exile
Epilogue.

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