Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Readings of Trauma: Hermeneutical Perspectives on Biblical and Modern Trauma Narratives

Readings of Trauma: Hermeneutical Perspectives on Biblical and Modern Trauma Narratives

Grund-Wittenberg, Alexandra
Schult, Maike

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Cultural Contexts of the Bible, Book 15

Bible StudiesGeneral Psychology

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 3506794566
ISBN13: 9783506794567
Publisher: Brill Schoningh
Published: Dec 12 2025
Pages: 287
Weight: 2.19
Language: English
Trauma is a brief term for a complex phenomenon, a linguistic vessel for experiences that can hardly be put into speech. Its terminological vagueness has made the concept of trauma a permanent guest in discourses beyond the clinical context. This volume offers a scholarly reflection on the hermeneutical foundations of the concept of trauma: What do we mean by it? What different avenues of comprehension are open, given our varying cultural and linguistic backgrounds? And are we aware that understanding itself can be seen as an attempt to avoid trauma's gravity? These questions were discussed during the DFG-funded international interdisciplinary conference Readings of Trauma, which took place in Marburg in April 2022 and brought together scholars from Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain, the USA and South Africa to compare their hermeneutical perspectives on biblical and modern trauma narratives through the lenses of theology, literature, psychology, and psychoanalysis.

Also from

Grund-Wittenberg, Alexandra

View All

Also in

General Psychology

View All