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Trauma and the failure of history : kings, lamentations, and the destruction of Jerusalem / by David Janzen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Janzen, David, 1968- author.
- Series:
- Semeia studies ; Number 94.
- Semeia studies ; Number 94
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Kings--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Bible. Lamentations--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Psychic trauma--Biblical teaching.
- Psychic trauma.
- Jerusalem--History--Siege, 586 B.C.
- Jerusalem.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (197 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Atlanta : SBL Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- A theoretical and exegetical exploration of trauma in the Hebrew Bible David Janzen discusses the concepts of history and trauma and contrasts the ways historians and trauma survivors grapple with traumatic events, a contrast embodied in the very different ways the books of Kings and Lamentations react to the destruction of Jerusalem. Janzen's study warns that explanations in histories will tend to silence the voices of trauma survivors, and it challenges traditional approaches that sometimes portray the explanations of traumatic events in biblical literature as therapeutic for victims. Features: Exploration of history as a narrative explanation that creates a past readers can recognize to be true Examination of how trauma results in a failure of victims to fully experience or remember traumatic events. A case for why the past is a construction of cultures and historians
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-88414-339-2
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