Trauma Talks in the Hebrew Bible: Speech Act Theory and Trauma Hermeneutics

Alexiana Fry

doi:10.5771/9781666900569

Summary

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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Edition: 1/2023
Copyright Year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-0055-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-0056-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 138
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
Chapter 1: An In-Between Hermeneutic: Fluid Methods for Polyvalent Passages No access Pages 13 - 44
Chapter 2: Hashtag Does Her Body (Still) Speak: Judges 19 and Hosea No access Pages 45 - 62
Chapter 3: Moral Injury, YHWH, Saul, and a Witch: 1 Samuel 28 No access Pages 63 - 80
Chapter 4: Qohelet’s Coping Cries as Instruction: Ecclesiastes 7 No access Pages 81 - 98
Chapter 5: We Are All Witnesses: Joshua 24 No access Pages 99 - 112
Evolving Together No access Pages 113 - 120
Stabilizing Anchors of Attention No access Pages 121 - 124
Bibliography No access Pages 125 - 132
Index No access Pages 133 - 136
About the Author No access Pages 137 - 138