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Jeremiah : Pain and Promise /

"Whether dealing with collective catastrophe or intimate trauma, recovering from emotional and physical hurt is hard. Kathleen O'Connor shows that although Jeremiah's emotionally wrought language can aggravate readers' memories of pain, it also documents the ways an ancient commu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: O'Connor, Kathleen M., 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Imagining lives : historical context
  • Hearts of stone : disasters and their effects
  • A relentless quest for meaning : the Book of Jeremiah
  • A family comes undone : the metaphor of a broken family
  • Fragmented memories of trauma : the war poems
  • If only tears were possible : the weeping poems
  • Telling a life : biographical stories
  • Survive by praying : the confessions
  • Encoding catastrophe : the sermons
  • Rekindling hope : the little book of consolation
  • Running out of strength : endings
  • Confusion as meaning-making : the composition of the book.