The Language of Trauma in the Psalms

Danilo Verde

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Eisenbrauns
01 August 2024

Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Christianity; Sacred texts

Series: Critical Studies in the Hebrew Bible

Over the last few decades, the field of trauma studies has shed new light on biblical texts that deal with individual and collective catastrophe. In The Language of Trauma in the Psalms, Danilo Verde advances the conversation, moving beyond the emphasis on healing that prevails in most literary trauma studies.

Using the lens of cognitive linguistics and combining insights from trauma studies and redaction criticism, Verde explores how trauma is expressed linguistically in the book of Psalms, how trauma-related language was rooted in ancient Israel’s external realities, and how psalms helped define Yehud’s cultural trauma in the Persian period (539–331 BCE). Rather than assuming the psalmists’ personal experiences are reflected in these texts, Verde focuses on the linguistic strategies used to express trauma in the Psalms, especially references to the body and highly dramatic metaphors. Current analyses often approach trauma texts as tools intended to help sufferers heal. Verde contends that many group laments in the book of Psalms were transmitted not only to heal but also to wound the community, ensuring that the pain of a previous generation was not forgotten.

The Language of Trauma in the Psalms shifts our understanding of trauma in biblical texts and will appeal to literary trauma scholars as well as those interested in ancient Israel.

By: Danilo Verde
Imprint: Eisenbrauns
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 367g
ISBN: 9781646022908
ISBN 10: 1646022904
Series: Critical Studies in the Hebrew Bible
Pages: 170
Publication Date: 01 August 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Danilo Verde is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven. He is the author of Conquered Conquerors: Love and War in the Song of Songs and coeditor of Networks of Metaphors in the Hebrew Bible and Cultural Hegemony, Ideological Conflicts, and Power in Second Temple Judaism.

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The Language of Trauma in the Psalms

Danilo Verde

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