{"product_id":"trauma-talks-in-the-hebrew-bible-speech-act-theory-and-trauma-hermeneutics-9781666900552","title":"Trauma Talks in the Hebrew Bible: Speech Act","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFry’s work reminds us that trauma reveals itself in category-defying ways throughout all parts of the Hebrew Bible. With Fry’s transdisciplinary blend of literary criticism, trauma study, speech act theory, and modern novels and films, troubling texts such as the Levite’s concubine, Gomer’s violent marriage, and King Saul’s fate show the ethical complexity of traumatic texts and the ways that these biblical texts affect their readers and call them to act in response to traumas both past and present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrad E. Kelle, Point Loma Nazarene University, author of The Bible and Moral Injury: Reading Scripture Alongside War’s Unseen Wounds (Abingdon, 2020)\u003c\/p\u003e -- Brad E. Kelle, Point Loma Nazarene University; author of \u003ci\u003eThe Bible and Moral Injury: Reading Scripture Alongside War’s Unseen Wounds\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Standing on Chicken Legs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter One: An In-Between Hermeneutics: Fluid Methods for Polyvalent Passages\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Two: Hashtag Does Her Body (Still) Speak: Judges 19 and Hosea\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Three: Moral Injury, YHWH, Saul, and a Witch: 1 Samuel 28\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Four: Qoheleth’s Coping Cries as Instruction: Ecclesiastes 7\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Five: We are All Witnesses: Joshua 24\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: Evolving Together\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041993523543,"sku":"9781666900552","price":62.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/trauma-talks-in-the-hebrew-bible-speech-act-theory-and-trauma-hermeneutics-9781666900552","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}