Incarnation and Covenant: The Fourth Gospel through the Lens of Trauma Theory

Despite the distance in time and space that separates twenty-first century readers from the people in biblical stories, our own everyday experience equips us to understand these events as traumas. In this essay, trauma theory will be applied to illuminate the much-contested process by which the Joha...

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Main Author: Reinhartz, Adele 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publ. 2015
In: Interpretation
Year: 2015, Volume: 69, Issue: 1, Pages: 35-48
Further subjects:B Trauma Theory
B Expulsion from
B Incarnation
B Gospel of
B Synagogues
B John
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Summary:Despite the distance in time and space that separates twenty-first century readers from the people in biblical stories, our own everyday experience equips us to understand these events as traumas. In this essay, trauma theory will be applied to illuminate the much-contested process by which the Johannine community developed an identity different from, and in opposition to, the Jews among whom they apparently lived.
ISSN:2159-340X
Contains:Enthalten in: Interpretation
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0020964314552628