The Old Testament as Controlled Substance: How Insights from Trauma Studies Reveal Healing Capacities in Potentially Harmful Texts

Frechette, Christopher G.

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“…A clear definition and demarcation of trauma theories and resilience studies is still pending, with the scholarly discourse dominated by the field of trauma. Biblical studies have fruitfully employed the trauma discourse as a hermeneutical frame to interpret the end of the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah as traumatic events that triggered wide parts of the scriptural writings as coping literature (O'Connor 2014;Frechette 2015;Garber 2015;Boase and Frechette 2016b). In 2013, the Society of Biblical Literature inaugurated the program unit "Biblical Literature and the Hermeneutics of Trauma", which has been going strong ever since.…”

Section: From Trauma To Resiliencementioning

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Resilience and Return in Isaiah—Using Resilience Theory in Hebrew Scripture Theology

Klein

2023

Religions

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The article analyses the theology of homecoming in the book of Isaiah and makes a case for using resilience theory as a hermeneutical frame for the task of Hebrew Scripture theology. Defined as “positive adaptation despite adversity”, resilience builds on the crisis setting of wide parts of the Hebrew Scriptures and demonstrates that the formation of theology represents a resilience discourse. In the case of the Isaianic prophecies of return, three concepts of return are distinguished (return, gathering and homecoming, a second Exodus) that respond to the adversities of exile and diaspora. Thus, the prophecies offer a literary home that the different religious communities through time can inhabit.

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Section: From Trauma To Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Resilience and Return in Isaiah—Using Resilience Theory in Hebrew Scripture Theology

Klein

2023

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“…Berasal dari kata Yunani yang berarti luka, trauma, dalam penggunaan kontemporernya, diterapkan pada berbagai pengalaman mulai dari gangguan sehari-hari, seringkali biasa, terhadap rasa sejahtera hingga peristiwa besar yang mengganggu dan bencana 22 . Christopher Frechette mengidentifikasi bahwa trauma dijelaskan dalam tiga fenomena terkait karena ini memengaruhi individu dan kolektif yaitu peristiwa yang menimbulkan ancaman ekstrem dan membanjiri cara biasa untuk mengatasi; dampak psikis dan sosial yang mendalam dan merugikan yang ditimbulkan oleh peristiwa-peristiwa ini; dan strategi untuk bertahan hidup, dan sampai batas tertentu, pulih dari efek tersebut 23 .…”

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Gangguan Stres Pascatrauma Dan Panggilan Penginjilan: Sebuah Refleksi Teologis dan Psikologis dari Kitab Yunus

Hutagalung¹

2021

koinonia

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Penginjilan adalah Amanat Agung dari Tuhan untuk setiap manusia. Amanat yang sama juga dimandatkan Tuhan untuk Yunus, namun Yunus menolak dengan berani panggilan Agung tersebut. Penelitian ini mencoba untuk mencari tahu mengapa Yunus “terlalu berani” menampik panggilan Agung Tuhan dan bertolak ke Tarsis? Dan mengapa kemudian dia bertukar haluan dari Tarsis ke Niniwe?. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan pendekatan deskriptif analisis melalui kajian literatur terhadap teks Alkitab dengan mengkaji sisi teologis dan psikologis Yunus melalui tiga tahap analisis. Sebagai kesimpulan, tindakan “terlalu berani” Yunus menampik panggilan Agung Tuhan diakibatkan oleh gangguan stres pasca trauma yang dialaminya bersama keluarga sejak ia kecil hingga dewasa selama invasi Suriah ke Israel Utara sehingga muncul sikap antagonisme intensnya terhadap Niniwe yang membuatnya menjauh dari Tuhan. Ketika gangguan stres pasca trauma yang dialami Yunus diobati dengan penyerahan sepenuhnya melalui doa, Yunus diberikan ketangguhan, ketabahan, dan ketegaran hati untuk mengabarkan berita keselamatan ke kota Niniwe.

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“…Happily, more recent biblical scholarship has once again benefited from psychological research (see, inter alia , Vogels, 1981; 1983; Joyce, 1993; Brueggemann, 1995, pp. 98–111; 2009; Rollins, 1999; Kille, 2001; Rollins & Kille, 2007; Strawn & Strawn, 2012; Strawn, 2012; 2014; Carr, 2014; Frechette, 2015), with some psychological and pastoral care/theology research also engaging the Bible, including, in some cases, the Psalms (see, e.g., Capps, 1981, pp. 47–97; Kahn with Solomon, 1986; Fromm, 1991, pp.…”

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The shift from lament to praise in the psalms: A psychodynamic phenomenon

Strawn,

Strawn

2024

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

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This article returns to the long-standing problem of the so-called ‘sudden shift of mood’ in the lament psalms, revisiting this shift from petition to praise from the perspective of contemporary psychoanalytic depth psychology, especially via insights offered by object relations psychology. In this light, the movement from lament to praise may be seen as a psychodynamic phenomenon related to, and witnessed in, the therapeutic processes of illumination, subtraction, and addition. This understanding of how the lament psalms work underscores how crucial the expression of mourning is to psychological health. To borrow terms from Walter Brueggemann, the psychological interpretation offered here demonstrates once again ‘the costly loss of lament’, but the high price in question extends beyond that identified by Brueggemann insofar as the subtractive therapeutic action at work in the grieving process is precisely what facilitates the restoration of psychological well-being.

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The Old Testament as Controlled Substance: How Insights from Trauma Studies Reveal Healing Capacities in Potentially Harmful Texts

Cited by 9 publications

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Resilience and Return in Isaiah—Using Resilience Theory in Hebrew Scripture Theology

Resilience and Return in Isaiah—Using Resilience Theory in Hebrew Scripture Theology

Gangguan Stres Pascatrauma Dan Panggilan Penginjilan: Sebuah Refleksi Teologis dan Psikologis dari Kitab Yunus

The shift from lament to praise in the psalms: A psychodynamic phenomenon

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