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History through trauma : history and counter-history in the Hebrew Bible / Tiffany Houck-Loomis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Houck-Loomis, Tiffany, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Deuteronomy--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Bible. Deuteronomy.
- Bible. Job.
- Deuteronomistic history (Biblical criticism).
- Jews--History--Babylonian captivity, 598 B.C.-515 B.C.
- Jews.
- Bible. Job--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible--Psychology.
- Psychology.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 238 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, [2018]
- Summary:
- Our sacred texts have the potential to become texts of torture or texts of liberation. History through Trauma explores the symbolic function of religious, political, and national symbols that aid in the construction of historical narratives, and the psychological effects of trauma on their creation and dissolution. The Deuteronomic Covenant, paramount in the construction of a biblical history of Israel, is analyzed with regard to Israel's history of exile. What is proffered is the book of Job as a symbolic history of Israel that stands as a counter-history beside the dominant history constructed in the canon's historical books-a counter-history whose function works to re-enliven the symbol of covenant. History through Trauma brings consciousness to the effects of exile on the dominant historical narratives in the Hebrew canon and to the eradicated affective experiences of trauma that surface in counter-texts such as the book of Job. This work offers a valuable new understanding of the impact of trauma on history-making in general-an understanding that beings light to biblical studies, practical theology, pastoral psychology, and psychoanalysis. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction 1
- 2 Methodology 13
- Part 1 Covenant Religion: History, Ideology, and the Symbol of the Covenant 45
- 3 People of the Covenant: The Making of a Covenant Religion 49
- 4 Refiguring the Divine, Communal Self, and Constructed Other in Exile 80
- Part 2 Individuated Religion: History, Ideology, and the Symbol of Job 119
- 5 The Book of Job as a Symbolic History 121
- 6 The Book of Job: A Historical and Scholarly Overview 147
- 7 Living in the Gap 162
- 8 Psychoanalytic Explorations into the Significance of Tam, Individuated Religion, and the Role of Job in Relation to the National History 193
- 9 Reimaging in Order to Reimage God: An Application for Today 211.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Christine Hikawa Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781532642098
- 1532642105
- 9781532642104
- 1532642091
- OCLC:
- 1022777185
- Publisher Number:
- 99977162410
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