Trauma talks in the Hebrew Bible: speech act theory and trauma hermeneutics
Resisting binary understandings of the human experience, Trauma Talks in the Hebrew Bible calls to attention the fluidity and polyvalency in the Hebrew Bible. Alexiana Fry argues for a more holistic approach in studying texts embracing both the bodies of the past, and our own bodies.
| Zusammenfassung: | Resisting binary understandings of the human experience, Trauma Talks in the Hebrew Bible calls to attention the fluidity and polyvalency in the Hebrew Bible. Alexiana Fry argues for a more holistic approach in studying texts embracing both the bodies of the past, and our own bodies. Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1: An In-Between Hermeneutic: Fluid Methods for Polyvalent Passages -- Trauma Theory: Making Meaning in the Middle -- The Basics -- Trauma in Literature, Trauma as Narrative -- Speech Act Theory: Thick Texts -- The Basics -- Speech Act Theory in Literature -- The How: Moving Through, Not Moving On -- Moving Through -- Embracing Empathy Together -- Not Just an Aside: Considering Us -- What Now? Open to Possibilities -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Hashtag Does Her Body (Still) Speak: Judges 19 and Hosea -- Capital-T Trauma(s) -- On the Surface -- Historical Matters -- What Are They Saying? Bodies, Mouthpieces, Scapegoats -- Judges 19 -- Hosea -- Our Response-Ability to Rightfully Outraged Imperatives -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Moral Injury, YHWH, Saul, and a Witch: 1 Samuel 28 -- What Is Moral Injury? -- Dialog as Revealing Shame? -- Spirit-Wife/Doula or That Witch -- Never Moving Through? -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Qohelet's Coping Cries as Instruction: Ecclesiastes 7 -- Intergenerational Trauma, Insidious Trauma, Intersecting, Connecting -- Ambiguous Re-Making Meaning -- Author In-Between: Our Interface -- Closing the Un-Closable -- Notes -- Chapter 5: We Are All Witnesses: Joshua 24 -- Consent, Power, and Covenant Making -- Promises Made to Be Broken -- Remember, Remember/Even the Rocks Cry Out -- Dangerous Wit(h)ness -- Notes -- Evolving Together -- Notes -- Stabilizing Anchors of Attention -- Breath-Work(s) -- Eye Movement -- Simple Somatics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author. |
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| Physische Details: | 1 online resource (149 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-1-6669-0056-9 |
