Trauma Talks in the Hebrew Bible
eBook - PDF

Trauma Talks in the Hebrew Bible

Speech Act Theory and Trauma Hermeneutics

  1. 149 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Trauma Talks in the Hebrew Bible

Speech Act Theory and Trauma Hermeneutics

About this book

If one of the many ways out of trauma's impact is through words, then why not use a theory closely attached to words and their impact alongside current trauma theories in understanding historical narratives? In Trauma Talks in the Hebrew Bible: Speech Act Theory and Trauma Hermeneutics, Alexiana Fry utilizes a diverse methodology of speech act theory and trauma hermeneutics to argue for a more fluid and holistic approach in re-interpreting narratives in the Hebrew Bible. Examining a more dissociative "objective" manner in reading, each chapter asks the question of "what about our own bodies?" Purposely provoking attunement with oneself to embrace "empathic unsettlement," the book refuses to give any semblance of finality. Through the many types of performative utterances and traumas both individual and collective-Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Ecclesiastes, and Hosea-Fry investigates the varied layers that constitute their many meanings. The reader is invited into an awareness and openness that is the human experience in biblical studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1: An In-Between Hermeneutic: Fluid Methods for Polyvalent Passages
  9. Chapter 2: Hashtag Does Her Body (Still) Speak: Judges 19 and Hosea
  10. Chapter 3: Moral Injury, YHWH, Saul, and a Witch: 1 Samuel 28
  11. Chapter 4: Qohelet’s Coping Cries as Instruction: Ecclesiastes 7
  12. Chapter 5: We Are All Witnesses: Joshua 24
  13. Evolving Together
  14. Stabilizing Anchors of Attention
  15. Breath-Work(s)
  16. Eye Movement
  17. Simple Somatics
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index
  21. About the Author