Triumph and Trauma: Justifications of Mass Violence in Deuteronomistic Historiography-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Triumph and Trauma: Justifications of Mass Violence in Deuteronomistic Historiography

Published:2022-01-01 Issue:1 Volume:8 Page:412-427
ISSN:2300-6579
Container-title:Open Theology
language:en
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Author:

Markl Dominik¹

Affiliation:

1. Pontifical Biblical Institute , Rome , Italy

Abstract

AbstractThis article investigates the justifications of mass violence in Deuteronomistic historiography through the lens of cultural trauma. The analysis concentrates on the representation and justification of mass violence, that is mass killings and other forms of violence against non-combatants, in Israel’s conquest of the promised land in the books of Deuteronomy and Joshua as well as during the loss of the land at the hand of the Assyrian and Babylonian armies, as narrated in 2 Kings 17–25. A comparison of these texts and their respective historical backgrounds helps to profile the contrasts and continuities between them. Trauma theory sheds light on both narratives as media to recover agency and to reconstruct collective identity for emerging Judaism via the historiographical representation of cultural trauma.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Religious studies

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/opth-2022-0217/pdf

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