Trauma Theory, Trauma Story: A Narration of Biblical Studies and the World of Trauma

This work offers an overview of trauma theory’s relations to biblical studies. In addition to summarizing the theoretical landscape(s), it provides exegetical forays into Ezekiel and, in part, Exodus and the Eucharist. The analysis will engage these materials’ traumatic ethoi, including their connec...

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Published in:Brill research perspectives in Biblical interpretation
Main Author: Emanuel, Sarah 1987- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
In: Brill research perspectives in Biblical interpretation
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Trauma / Ezekiel / New Testament / Intertextuality / Eucharist
RelBib Classification:HB Old Testament
HC New Testament
ZD Psychology
Further subjects:B Hebrew Bible
B Intertextuality
B Ezekiel
B Eucharist
B Trauma
B New Testament
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Summary:This work offers an overview of trauma theory’s relations to biblical studies. In addition to summarizing the theoretical landscape(s), it provides exegetical forays into Ezekiel and, in part, Exodus and the Eucharist. The analysis will engage these materials’ traumatic ethoi, including their connections to trauma informed eating and queerings, so as to offer entryways into the wider critical conversation. While these exegetical foci may seem arbitrary, that is in part the point. As readers will see, trauma defies sense-making. Akin to postmodernist poststructuralist intertextualities, trauma cannot be flattened into neat narration. Trauma is capricious, leaving survivors to carry with them multivalent and even paradoxical connections to their experiences. This project thus attempts to perform trauma’s plurisignification as much as it tries to explain it, using a set of traditionally unexamined pairings to do so. While not an exhaustive survey on trauma theory and the Bible - such work could fill the space of multiple publications - the following work provides a representation of both the theory of trauma and its applications within the biblical field.
ISSN:2405-7657
Contains:Enthalten in: Brill research perspectives in Biblical interpretation
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/24057657-12340018