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Healing Touch: Hermeneutics of Trauma and Recovery
Journal of Applied Hermeneutics, 2020 This is an edited, abridged, and revised version of a chapter written by Richard Kearney which will appear in his forthcoming book Touch: Recovering Our Most Vital Sense to be published by Columbia University Press in 2021.
Richard Kearney
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Religions, 2022 By reading Jonah’s lament in Jonah 2 through the lens of trauma hermeneutics, this article will try to better understand the words that have been assigned to the main character Jonah, which represent a community’s deep sorrow in the aftermath of the ...
L Juliana Claassens
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Old Testament Essays, 2023 In this article that explores male and female metaphors for God in the Hebrew Bible, I argue with specific reference to the book of Jeremiah that the intersection of trauma and gender is particularly important in considering how tumultuous times inevitably impact the way people spoke and continue to speak about God.
L Juliana Claassens
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Helena Duffy and Avril Tynan (eds.), Trauma, Ethics, Hermeneutics: Essays in Honour of Colin Davis
European Journal of Life WritingThroughout a career spanning four decades, Colin Davis has established himself as a main proponent of a philosophical and hermeneutic approach to the study of the narrative arts in which the prime goal is to come to a fuller understanding, not only of ...
Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar
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Trauma Theory and Theological Engagement: An Appraisal on Trends in Trauma Hermeneutics
ScripturaStudies on trauma theory and its significance to biblical hermeneutics are largely unknown in Africa, especially in the West African context. But due to recent sad events of conflicts and violence, trauma is now being explored for possible engagement in biblical and practical theological scholarship. This essay is an appraisal on the crucial problem of
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Religions, 2023 This article will explore the rhetorical and theological significance of the metaphor of divine adoption in the Hebrew Bible. In Ps 22:10–11 and Ps 71:6–9 God is not only said to pull the psalmist out of his/her mother’s womb, but in a context in which ...
L. Juliana Claassens
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Women and Children under Siege: Re-reading Biblical Texts in light of Child Abandonment in South Africa [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2022 The position of women and children in ancient times and today was/is never promising, because they are too often exposed to suffering, hunger, high levels of violence, abandonment, homelessness, and death.
Rev Zukile Ngqeza (Doctoral Candidate) +1 more
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Narrative, Insecure Equilibrium and the Imperative to Understand: A Hermeneutics of Woundedness
Text Matters, 2021 Addressing trauma as a phenomenon which happens on the level of the human psyche and body, this article explores the impact of the interlocking nature of human lingual and bodily being in discovering a fuller possibility of interpreting and understanding
Małgorzata Hołda
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From Healing to Wounding: The Psalms of Communal Lament and the Shaping of Yehud’s Cultural Trauma
Open Theology, 2022 Biblical trauma studies strongly emphasize that texts and traditions that eventually formed the Hebrew Bible helped both the authors and the (former) “readers” to cope with catastrophic events. This approach, however, leads to side-lining other functions
Verde Danilo
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Becoming the Vulnerable Neighbour: From Trauma Research to Practice
Journal of Applied Hermeneutics, 2018 This article explores the relevancy and application of Gadamerian hermeneutics and Levinisian philosophy as adapted by Orange (2011) to the field of counselling psychology, with a focus on working with individuals who have experienced trauma.
Tiffany Beks
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