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Psalms 42-43 & 137

Old Testament Essays
The Babylonian captivity and exile inflicted profound trauma upon the Jewish people, wrenching them from their loved ones, displacing them from their families, homeland and the temple. The significance of the temple extended far beyond mere architecture;
Daniel Simango
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On traumatised mothers and children? Re-reading Lamentations through the lens of trauma

Verbum et Ecclesia
Lamentations 2:20 and 4:10 are biblical texts described as ‘texts of terror’ as well as traumatic biblical texts where ‘tender-hearted women have eaten their children’ (NLT).
Zukile Ngqeza
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Reading Trauma Narratives: Insidious Trauma in the Story of Rachel, Leah, Bilhah and Zilpah (Genesis 29-30) and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale

Old Testament Essays, 2020
This article investigates the notion of insidious trauma as a helpful means of interpreting the story of Rachel, Leah, Bilhah and Zilpah as told in Genesis 29-30 that has found its way into the haunting trauma narrative of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid ...
Juliana Claassens
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A Trauma Perspective of the Redaction of the Poor at the end of Book I (Pss 3-41) and Book II (Pss 42-72) of the Psalter

Old Testament Essays, 2018
In a recent article published Willie Wessels reflects on caring for the poor and according to him the Hebrew Bible has a clear position regarding the question of the poor and the needy. There are a number of words which are used in Hebrew to refer to the
Alphonso Groenewald
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Going home? Exiles, inciles and refugees in the Book of Jeremiah

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
Set against the backdrop of the Babylonian Invasion and Exile, the Book of Jeremiah represents a variety of different perspectives on how to survive imperial domination.
L. Juliana Claassens
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Beyond revenge?: Responsible Bible reading practices in a Traumatized Land

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017
In this article, I argue that revenge fantasies such as those found in the Oracles Against the Nations (OAN) in Jeremiah 45–51 underscore the necessity for responsible Bible reading practices.
Juliana M. Claassens
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Practicing Palimpsest: Layering Stories and Disrupting Dominant Western Narratives in Early Childhood Education

Journal of Applied Hermeneutics, 2014
Interpreting and contextualizing the meanings of spoken, transcribed, visual and embodied languages, we explore how the life stories of immigrant educators evoke socio-cultural and diverse imaginaries.
Carolyn Bjartveit, E. Lisa Panayotidis
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Retrieving psychosocial signs of structural violence in postcolonial Jamaica

Community Psychology in Global Perspective, 2016
Physical and psychological assaults on group life wound not only community well-being but, also, individual subject formation, altering the way people think, feel and act.
Deanne Bell
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Bouncing Back and Moving Forward: Resilience, the Joseph Narrative and Addiction Recovery

Communio Viatorum
The use of biblical narrative is an important resource in the practice of pastoral care and counselling. In this paper, which draws on the psychology of resilience as well as recent work on trauma and resilience hermeneutics, it is argued that the Joseph
Marion L. S. Carson
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THE AVENGING GOD OF NAHUM AS COMFORTER OF THE TRAUMATIZED

Acta Theologica, 2018
In this article dedicated to my esteemed colleague Fanie Snyman, I want to contribute to the fascinating field of the study of biblical literature and the hermeneutics of trauma.
K Spronk
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