Telling Stories for Healing and Resilience: A Trauma-informed Reading of Psalms 105 and 106
The poetic telling of stories—especially stories of ancestral failings and ongoing relationship to those failings—is a key aspect of how the book of Psalms moves audiences from trauma to healing and resilience. Trauma blocks the ability of survivors to narrate a coherent story of their experiences....
| Published in: | Biblical theology bulletin |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2023
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| In: |
Biblical theology bulletin
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Psalmen 105
/ Bible. Psalmen 106
/ Trauma
/ Healing
/ Resistance
/ Resilience (Personality trait)
/ Story
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| RelBib Classification: | HB Old Testament ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
Resistance
B Narrative B Psalm 105 B Psalm 106 B Healing B Trauma |
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| Summary: | The poetic telling of stories—especially stories of ancestral failings and ongoing relationship to those failings—is a key aspect of how the book of Psalms moves audiences from trauma to healing and resilience. Trauma blocks the ability of survivors to narrate a coherent story of their experiences. Learning to tell traumatic stories—and integrate them into life moving forward—is a significant factor in healing from past traumas and building the resilience necessary to survive and sustain well-being through future ones. The “twin” Psalms 105 and 106 are an example of how the book of Psalms equips audiences for this work of processing trauma, moving toward healing, and building resilience through its poetic language, narrative structures, and community context. In particular, these psalms narrate a shared history, acknowledge the good and the bad within that history, and demand participation and response. |
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| ISSN: | 1945-7596 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Biblical theology bulletin
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/01461079231191553 |