‘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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2025
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The Evangelical quarterly
Year: 2025, Volume: 96, Issue: 4, Pages: 313-322 |
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Theological Interpretation
B Psalm 137 B imprecatory B trauma / moral injury |
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