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Trauma Theory, Trauma Story

In Ezekiel, Sarah Emanuel, Sébastien Doane, Trauma theory on October 13, 2023 at 3:46 pm

2023.10.07 | Sarah Emanuel, Trauma Theory, Trauma Story; A Narration of Biblical Studies and the World of Trauma, Research Perspectives in Biblical Interpretation, Leiden, Brill, 2021.

Review by Sébastien Doane, Université Laval.

In her work titled Trauma Theory, Trauma Story: A Narration of Biblical Studies and the World of Trauma, Sarah Emanuel, an Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University and a member of the Society of Biblical Literature’s Hermeneutics of Trauma and Biblical Literature unit, offers an original and insightful examination of trauma theory within the context of biblical studies. This book follows her previous publication, Humor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural Persistence in the Book of Revelation: Roasting Rome, released by Cambridge University Press in 2019.

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Ezekiel and the World of Deuteronomy

In Bloomsbury, D. Allen Hutchison, Deuteronomy, Ezekiel, Jason Gile, T & T Clark on December 1, 2021 at 11:47 pm

2021.12.18 | Jason Gile. Ezekiel and the World of Deuteronomy. LHBOTS 703. London: T&T Clark, 2021. ISBN 9780567694317 (electronic version).

Review by D. Allen Hutchison, Stellenbosch University.

Ezekiel and the World of Deuteronomy by Jason Gile makes the strong case that the book of Deuteronomy was a significant influence on the book of Ezekiel. Gile is Dean of Program Development and Innovation and Affiliate Professor of Old Testament at Northern Seminary in Lisle, Illinois. Ezekiel and the World of Deuteronomy is the revision of his 2013 Ph.D. dissertation from Wheaton College Graduate School.

Gile acknowledges on the first page that the Holiness Code of Lev 17-26 is “the chief influence for Ezekiel” (1) but argues that Leviticus is not the only pentateuchal book to substantially influence the prophet and his book. Gile’s thesis is that Deuteronomy influenced Ezekiel “in significant ways” and “in some cases [Ezekiel] alluded to specific texts” from Deuteronomy (2).

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