JERUSALEM, AS ARCHETYPICAL “HOUSE” OF BEING RELIGIOUS

Abstract

In this presentation I will try briefly to refer semantically to the archetypical spirituality of Jerusalem (videlicet as a sign of Transcendence) or Zion [deriving from Zedek (compare with Melchi-zedek)], which as names represent the entire Judaism, researching particular Jewish and Greek Orthodox Patristic sources. Origen , Gregory of Nyssa and all Hesych Fathers provide rich, psychological and allegorical interpretation of Jerusalem as every human religious soul.