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BiBle through the lens of trauma

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elizabeth Boase and Christopher g. frechette

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Contents

abbreviations ...................................................................................................vii

defining “trauma” as a useful lens for Biblical interpretationChristopher g. frechette and elizabeth Boase .....................................1

1. Between individual and Collective dimensions of trauma

no Words: The Book of ezekiel as trauma literature and a response to exileruth Poser .................................................................................................27

fragmented Voices: Collective identity and traumatization in lamentationselizabeth Boase .........................................................................................49

daughter Babylon raped and Bereaved (isaiah 47): symbolic Violence and meaning-making in recovery from traumaChristopher g. frechette .........................................................................67

shared Pleasure to soothe the Broken spirit: Collective trauma and QohelethPhilip Browning helsel ............................................................................85

2. new insights into old Questions

fragments of traumatic memory: Salmê zākār and Child sacrifice in ezekiel 16:15–22margaret s. odell ....................................................................................107SBL P

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reflections on the Prose sermons in the Book of Jeremiah: duhm’s and mowinckel’s Contributions to Contemporary trauma readingslouis stulman .........................................................................................125

3. survival, recovery, and resilience in and through the text: ancient and Contemporary Contexts

trauma, Psalmic disclosure, and authentic happinessBrent a. strawn ......................................................................................143

legislating divine traumasamuel e. Balentine ...............................................................................161

trauma and recovery: a new hermeneutical framework for the rape of tamar (2 samuel 13)l. Juliana m. Claassens ..........................................................................177

reading Biblical texts through the lens of resiliencerobert J. schreiter ..................................................................................193

Between text and trauma: reading Job with People living with hiVgerald o. West ........................................................................................209

toward a Pastoral reading of 2 Corinthians as a memoir of Ptsd and healingPeter Yuichi Clark ..................................................................................231

appendix: Program units of the society of Biblical literature annual meetings 2012–2015 for Which session listings included the Keyword “trauma”..........................................................249

Contributors ...................................................................................................251

ancient sources index ..................................................................................255

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abbreviations

aB anchor BibleaCCs ancient Christian Commentary on scriptureail ancient israel and its literatureanem ancient near eastern monographsaotC abindgon old testament CommentariesBHS Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. edited by Karl elliger and

Wilhelm rudolph. stuttgard: deutsche Bibelgesellsd-chaft, 1983.

Bib BiblicaBibInt Biblical InterpretationBibsem The Biblical seminarBWL Babylonian Wisdom Literature. Wilfred g. lambert.

oxford, Clarendon, 1960.CAD The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the

University of Chicago. Chicago: The oriental institute of the university of Chicago, 1956–2006.

CBQ Catholic Biblical QuarterlyCeB Common english BibleCurBR Currents in Biblical ResearchfCB feminist Companion to the BiblehKat handkommentar zum alten testamenthsm harvard semitic monographsiBC interpretation: a Bible Commentary for teaching and

PreachingiCC international Critical CommentaryInt Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and TheologyJAAR Journal of the American Academy of ReligionJANESCU Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society of Columbia

UniversityJBL Journal of Biblical Literature

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viii aBBreViations

JFSR Journal of Feminist Studies in ReligionJSOT Journal for the Study of the Old TestamentJsotsup Journal for the study of the old testament supplement

seriesJTSA Journal of Theology for Southern AfricalCl loeb Classical library lhBots library of hebrew Bible/old testament studiesltPm louvain Theological and Pastoral monographsnaC new american CommentarynCB new Century BibleniCot new international Commentary on the BiblenJPs Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures: The New JPS Translation

according to the Traditional Hebrew TextnrsV new revised standard VersionoBo orbis Biblicus et orientalisoBt overtures to Biblical Theologyotl old testament libraryotst oudtestamentische studiënPhillips The New Testament in Modern English, J. B. PhillipsRB Revue Biblique sant studia aarhusiana neotestamentica sBlds society of Biblical literature dissertation seriessBlms society of Biblical literature monograph seriessBlstBl society of Biblical literature studies in Biblical literaturesBlsyms society of Biblical literature symposium seriesshBC smyth & helwys Bible CommentarystBiblit studies in Biblical literature (lang)TDOT Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament. edited by g.

Johannes Botterweck and helmer ringgren. translated by John t. Willis et al. 8 vols. grand rapids: eerdmans, 1974–2006.

TSK Theologische Studien und KritikenVT Vetus TestamentumVtsup supplements to Vetus testamentumWBC Word Biblical CommentaryYner Yale near eastern researchesZAW Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche WissenschaftZDMG Zeitschift der deutschen morgenländischen GesellschaftSBL P

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