"This book offers the first study of ruination in the Hebrew Bible. Drawing on scholarship in biblical studies, archaeology, contemporary historical theory, and philosophy, he demonstrates how the ancient experience of ruins differed radically from that of the modern era"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. On ruins, then and now; 2. Shiloh and the ruins of memory; 3. The ruins of the Rachel's tomb and the presence of the past; 4. Jerusalem and the ruins of tomorrow; 5. Conclusion.