Holy resilience : the Bible's traumatic origins /
"Human trauma gave birth to the Bible, suggests eminent religious scholar David Carr. The Bible's ability to speak to suffering is a major reason why the sacred texts of Judaism and Christianity have retained their relevance for thousands of years. In his fascinating and provocative reinte...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2014.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Israel, Judah, and the birth of scripture
- The birth of monotheism
- Judah's survival
- Jerusalem's destruction and Babylonian exile
- Abraham and exile
- The story of Moses
- The return home
- Traumatic crystallization of scripture
- Christianity's founding trauma
- The traumatized apostle
- The traumatic origins of Judaism and Christianity
- The posttraumatic gospel
- Appendix: Contemporary study of trauma and ancient trauma.