Table of Contents
Preface v
Myth and Mimesis in the Psalm of Jonah Ronald Hendel 1
His Highness: God's Voice and the Autoimmune In Two Royal Psalms Ariel Zinder 11
"Take Pity on Zion, Rebuild the Walls of Jerusalem": A Late Antique Hebrew Elegy on the Destruction of Jerusalem Ophir Münz-Manor 27
Oral Tales and Written Truth in the Early Reception History of LXX Psalm 118(119) Jonathan Stavsky 43
David and Jerusalem: From Psalms to the Zohar Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel 67
The Voice of the Psalmist: On the Performative Role of Psalms in Moses Mendelssohn's Jerusalem Yael Sela 109
Rosenzweig's Reading of Psalm 115: The Gruesome "We" Leora Batnitzky 135
Paul Celan, the Last Psalmist Vivian Liska 143
"By the Waters of Babylon": The Amnesia of Memory Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi 153
Appendix: Selected Psalms on Jerusalem (translated by Robert Alter) 165
Notes on Contributors 189