Echoes of Rachel's Weeping: Intertextuality and Trauma in Jer. 31:15
The image of Rachel's inconsolable weeping for her lost children in Jer. 31:15 presents a specific kind of response to a cultural trauma. As this paper argues, understanding this response is enriched both by analyzing the extra-textual literary strategy of the passage itself and by engaging in...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2019]
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Biblical interpretation
Year: 2019, Volume: 27, Issue: 3, Pages: 413-435 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Jeremia 31,15
/ Bible. Genesis 37
/ Rahel, Biblical person
/ Trauma
/ Intertextuality
/ Allusion
/ Topicality
/ Canada
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| IxTheo Classification: | FD Contextual theology HB Old Testament |
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Witness Blanket
B Intertextuality B Allusion B Jeremiah B Exile B Trauma |
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| Summary: | The image of Rachel's inconsolable weeping for her lost children in Jer. 31:15 presents a specific kind of response to a cultural trauma. As this paper argues, understanding this response is enriched both by analyzing the extra-textual literary strategy of the passage itself and by engaging in an intertextual reading of the ancient text with a contemporary artistic response to trauma. By means of an allusion to Genesis 37, Jer. 31:15 makes a case both for the continued existence of the people of Israel and for the legitimacy of experiencing the exile as a metaphorical death. What Jer. 31:15 accomplishes textually for a sixth century BCE Judean audience, the Witness Blanket accomplishes in a visual medium for threatened Canadian native cultures. Both texts stage a protest against the threat to the continued existence of culture by asserting the persistent potency of its cultural symbols. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5152 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Biblical interpretation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685152-00273P06 |