Readings of trauma : hermeneutical perspectives on biblical and modern trauma narratives / Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg, Maike Schult (eds.).

Format:

Book

Series:

Studies in cultural contexts of the Bible ; 2629-9224 v.15.

Studies in cultural contexts of the Bible, 2629-9224 ; volume 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychic trauma--Biblical teaching.

Psychic trauma.

Psychic trauma--Religious aspects.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 287 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Paderborn : Brill Schöningh, [2026]

Summary:

"Trauma is a brief term for a complex phenomenon, a linguistic vessel for experiences that can hardly be put into speech. Its terminological vagueness has made the concept of trauma a permanent guest in discourses beyond the clinical context. This volume offers a scholarly reflection on the hermeneutical foundations of the concept of trauma: What do we mean by it? What different avenues of comprehension are open, given our varying cultural and linguistic backgrounds? And are we aware that understanding itself can be seen as an attempt to avoid trauma's gravity? These questions were discussed during the DFG-funded international interdisciplinary conference "Readings of Trauma", which took place in Marburg in April 2022 and brought together scholars from Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain, the USA and South Africa to compare their hermeneutical perspectives on biblical and modern trauma narratives through the lenses of theology, literature, psychology, and psychoanalysis." Back cover

Contents:

Part I. Readability of Trauma: Hermeneutical Questions and Foundations

A Message in a Bottle for the Contemporary World and Posterity: Paul Celan's "A Death Fugue" / Thomas Sparr

The Hebrew Bible as Trauma Response? Historical and Hermeneutical Considerations / Friedhelm Hartenstein

One Hundred Years of Psychoanalytical Trauma Aetiology as a Therapeutic and Hermeneutical Instrument / Peter J. Winzen

Part II. Trauma Narratives in the Hebrew Bible

Jerusalem's Demise as a Cultural Trauma in the Book of Jeremiah / Christl M. Maier

"And one to bind up their wounds" (Psalm 147:3) Dealing with Trauma in the Psalms: Some Insights and Open Questions / Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg

Trauma and the Fragmentation of Theology in Lamentations / Joel Baden

Part III. Texts and Contexts: (Re-) Readings in Modernity

Biblical Consolation and the Avoidance of Lament: Voices from the First World War / Andrew Mein

Traumatisation or Implicated Subject? Post-1945 Challenges to Theological Work in Germany / Björn Krondorfer

Theology After Gulag, Bucha, and Beyond: Reflections at the Intersection of Eastern and Western Theological Discourses / Katya Tolstaya

Opportunities and Challenges in Re-Reading Post-Traumatic Biblical Narratives of Flood and Rescue Amidst the Climate Catastrophe / David M. Carr

Part IV. Reading and Re-Reading the Vulnerable Life

The Book of Wounds: The Book of Wounds: Trauma and Vulnerability in Ezekiel / Ruth Poser

Vulnerable Bodies: The Rape of Dinah (Genesis 34) and The Stalking of Middle Sister, Milkman (Anna Burns) / L. Juliana Claassens

Re-Reading Vulnerability: The Hebrew Bible, Black Lives Matter, and #MeToo / Johanna Stiebert

Part V. Listening, Reading, Witnessing: Coping with Open Wounds

Narration and Storytelling: Resolving Bonding Issues with God and Spirituality After Trauma / Maggie Schauer and Lydia Maidl

Hope, Denial, and the Integration of Loss: Reading Lamentations in the Wake of Trauma / Paul M. Joyce

Wounds That Must Not Heal: Reading as Trauma-Witnessing / Maike Schult

Conclusion

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

e-book version

ISBN:

9783506794567

3506794566

OCLC:

1569252552

Publisher Number:

9783506794567