Trauma Theory, Trauma Story : : A Narration of Biblical Studies and the World of Trauma / / Sarah Emanuel.

• VerfasserIn: Emanuel, Sarah, 1987-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2019]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Readers in Biblical Studies ; 4.4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (57 pages)

This essay offers an overview of trauma theory's relations to biblical studies. In addition to summarizing the theoretical landscape(s), it offers exegetical forays into Ezekiel and, in part, Exodus and the Eucharist. My analysis will engage these materials' traumatic ethoi, including their connections to trauma informed eating and queerings, so as to offer entryways into the wider critical conversation. While these exegetical foci may seem arbitrary, that is in part the point. As readers will see, trauma defies sense-making. Akin to postmodernist poststructuralist intertextualities, trauma cannot be flattened into neat narration. Trauma is capricious, leaving survivors to carry with them multivalent and even paradoxical connections to their experiences. This project thus attempts to perform trauma's plurisignification as much as it tries to explain it, using a set of traditionally unexamined pairings to do so. While not an exhaustive survey on trauma theory and the Bible-such work could fill the space of multiple manuscripts-the following work provides a representation of both the theory of trauma and its applications within the biblical field.

Table of Contents

Trauma Theory, Trauma Story -- A Narration of Biblical Studies and the World of Trauma -- Sarah Emanuel -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Brain, Body, Trauma -- 3 Trauma and the Biblical Field -- 4 Life after Death: Trauma, Biblical Afterlives, and Us -- 5 Option Three and Other Concluding Thoughts -- Acknowledgment -- Bibliography.