RT Review
T1 The Violent Gift: Trauma’s Subversion of the Deuteronomistic History’s Narrative. By David Janzen
JF The journal of theological studies
VO 64
IS 1
SP 187
OP 189
A1 Poser, Ruth 1970-
LA English
YR 2013
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1783731796
AB While it might seem that the notion of trauma is commonplace in some contexts, ‘[t]he use of trauma theory in the field of biblical studies is’, as David Janzen puts it in his conclusion, ‘still in its infancy’ (p. 238). The study at hand, however, does a lot to let trauma theory grow into biblical hermeneutics. In it the Deuteronomistic History’s Narrative (Deuteronomy up to 2 Kings, DtrH) is consequently read as ‘trauma- literature’ or, to be more precise, as literature subverted by trauma. According to Janzen, DtrH as a whole aims at presenting a logical explanation of the 586 bce disaster.
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/jts/flt047