‘Happy Is the One Who Seizes Your Infants and Dashes Them against the Rocks’—Psalm 137 and Moral Injury
The imprecatory psalms represent a particular challenge to reading the Old Testament as Christian Scripture. Using Psalm 137 as an example, I propose that moral injury serves as a helpful lens for interpreting such texts. Imprecatory psalms are written in the contexts of tragedy, war, oppression, an...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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The Evangelical quarterly
Year: 2025, Volume: 96, Issue: 4, Pages: 313-322 |
| Further subjects: | B
Theological Interpretation
B Psalm 137 B imprecatory B trauma / moral injury |
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| Summary: | The imprecatory psalms represent a particular challenge to reading the Old Testament as Christian Scripture. Using Psalm 137 as an example, I propose that moral injury serves as a helpful lens for interpreting such texts. Imprecatory psalms are written in the contexts of tragedy, war, oppression, and exile. They express the moral trauma of those who endure such events and offer hope that God hears, responds to, and speaks through his people, even in such circumstances. |
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| ISSN: | 2772-5472 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Evangelical quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/27725472-09604004 |
