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Holy Resilience

Name: Holy Resilience
Author: David M. Carr

The Bible's Traumatic Origins

David M. Carr,

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Holy Resilience

The Bible's Traumatic Origins

David M. Carr,

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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 reinterpretation of the Bible's origins, the author tells the story of how the Jewish people and Christian community had to adapt to survive multiple catastrophes and how their holy scriptures both reflected and reinforced each religion's resilient nature. Carr's thought-provoking analysis demonstrates how many of the central tenets of biblical religion, including monotheism and the idea of suffering as God's retribution, are factors that provided Judaism and Christianity with the strength and flexibility to endure in the face of disaster. In addition, the author explains how the Jewish Bible was deeply shaped by the Jewish exile in Babylon, an event that it rarely describes, and how the Christian Bible was likewise shaped by the unspeakable shame of having a crucified savior.

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Publisher

Yale University Press

Year

2014

ISBN

9780300210248

Edition

Topic

Teologia e religione

Subtopic

Studi biblici

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11

]

A

ncient 

israel 

suffered, 

but

its

scriptures 

did

not

begin

with 

trauma. 

The

most 

ancient 

Israel 

did

not

even 

have 

written 

texts. 

Its

oral 

tradi-

tions, 

if

anything, 

celebrated 

victory 

rather 

than 

mourning 

defeat.

“Israel” 

ﬁrst 

appears 

in

the

record 

of

the

Ancient 

Near 

East 

about 

three 

thousand 

years 

ago

in

1250

bce

(

bce

=

bc

).

The

land 

of

Canaan 

was

dominated 

by

Egypt, 

an

empire 

built 

around 

the

Nile 

River 

about 

four 

hundred 

miles 

to

the

west. 

The

ruler 

of

Egypt, 

Pharaoh 

Mernephtah, 

sent 

an

expedition 

to

Canaan 

to

assert 

his

dominance 

over 

the

area. 

In

an

inscrip-

tion 

celebrating 

his

campaign, 

he

boasts 

of

having 

“decimated 

the

people 

of

Israel 

and

put

their 

children 

to

death.”

1

This 

is

the

ﬁrst 

clearly 

datable 

reference 

to

“Israel” 

in

world 

literature, 

C

H

A

P

T

E

R

O

N

E

Israel, 

Judah, 

and

the

Birth 

of

Scripture

CONTENTS
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE: Israel, Judah, and the Birth of Scripture
CHAPTER TWO: The Birth of Monotheism
CHAPTER THREE: Judah’s Survival
CHAPTER FOUR: Jerusalem’s Destruction and Babylonian Exile
CHAPTER FIVE: Abraham and Exile
CHAPTER SIX: The Story of Moses
CHAPTER SEVEN: The Return Home
CHAPTER EIGHT: Traumatic Crystallization of Scripture
CHAPTER NINE: Christianity's Founding Trauma
CHAPTER TEN: The Traumatized Apostle
CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Traumatic Origins of Judaism and Christianity
CHAPTER TWELVE: The Posttraumatic Gospel
Epilogue
APPENDIX: Contemporary Study of Trauma and Ancient Trauma
NOTES
Abbreviations
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY ON BIBLE AND TRAUMA
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INDEX