Facing Traumatizing Texts: Reading Nahum's Nationalistic Rage
The biblical book of Nahum may be the last book to which one would turn in time of national crisis due to a foreign attack. When read as a vengeance fantasy resulting from national trauma, however, facing Nahum's dire words against his enemy might provide readers with tools for self-reflection...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2008
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Review and expositor
Year: 2008, Volume: 105, Issue: 2, Pages: 285-294 |
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| Summary: | The biblical book of Nahum may be the last book to which one would turn in time of national crisis due to a foreign attack. When read as a vengeance fantasy resulting from national trauma, however, facing Nahum's dire words against his enemy might provide readers with tools for self-reflection when national fantasies of vengeance arise in our own context. |
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| ISSN: | 2052-9449 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review and expositor
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/003463730810500210 |