The violent gift : trauma's subversion of the Deuteronomistic history's narrative / David Janzen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Janzen, David, 1968-

Series:

The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 561

T & T Clark library of biblical studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deuteronomistic history (Biblical criticism).

Violence in the Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : T & T Clark International, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Violent Gift traces the narrative of the exilic author of the Deuteronomistic History, a narrative that provides an explanation for the trauma that the Judean community in Babylon suffered. As the book follows this explanation through the History, however, it also reads Dtr through the lens of trauma theory. Massive psychic trauma is not something that can be captured within narrative explanation, and trauma intrudes into the narrative's explanation of the exiles' trauma. Trauma challenges the claims upon which the narrative's explanation is based, thus subverting this attempt to make sens

Contents:

CONTENTS; Abbreviations; Chapter 1. THE VIOLENT GIFT: TRAUMA'S ABSENCE AND PRESENCE IN THE DEUTERONOMISTIC HISTORY; A. The Trauma of Destruction and Exile; B. The Unity and Exilic Dating of Dtr; Chapter 2. TRAUMA THEORY AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE STUDY OF THE DEUTERONOMISTIC HISTORY; A. The Study of Trauma in Mental Health Fields; B. The Literary Study of Trauma; C. Trauma and the Master Narrative of the Deuteronomistic History; Chapter 3. DEUTERONOMY: THE UNCANNY BEGINNING OF TRAUMA; A. Law and Leadership: Dtr's Master Narrative in Deuteronomy; B. The Uncanny Beginning of Trauma

Chapter 4. JOSHUA: GOD'S FAILURE AND INJUSTICEA. The Master Narrative: Joshua's Failure and Israel's Land; B. The Traumatic Intrusions: God's Failure and Injustice; Chapter 5. JUDGES: TRAUMA AS THE ESSENCE OF HISTORY; A. The Master Narrative in Judges: Israel's Culticand Leadership Failures; B. Trauma as the Essence of History in Judges; Chapter 6. SAMUEL: THE TRAUMATIC TRIUMPH OF INJUSTICE; A. The Master Narrative: Failures of Leadership; B. God, Saul, and Israel: A Traumatic Rejection of Justice; C. God and David: The Traumatic Triumph of Injustice; Chapter 7. KINGS: THE END OF NARRATIVE

A. Dtr's Master Narrative and Its Collapse in KingsB. The Traumatic End of Narrative in Kings; Chapter 8. CONCLUSION: TRAUMA AND THE SUBVERSION OF DTR'S NARRATIVE; Index of References; Index of Authors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-257) and indexes.

ISBN:

9781283741217

1283741210

9780567228406

0567228401

OCLC:

836399987