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52-4701 BS445 2014-9144 CIP Carr, David M. Holy resilience: the Bible's traumatic origins. Yale, 2014. 322p bibl index afp ISBN 9780300204568 cloth, $32.50
Looking at his subject through the lens of contemporary trauma studies, Carr (Union Theological Seminary) offers an insightful rereading of Hebrew Bible and Testament texts as "responses to suffering." This suffering-"catastrophic disasters"-overturned the identity of ancient Israel, early Judaism,...