TY - BOOK ID - 136708696 TI - The violent gift : trauma's subversion of the Deuteronomistic history's narrative PY - 2012 VL - 561 SN - 1283741210 0567228401 9780567228406 9781283741217 9780567436924 0567436926 PB - New York : T & T Clark International, DB - UniCat KW - Deuteronomistic history (Biblical criticism) KW - Violence in the Bible. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136708696 AB - The Violent Gift traces the narrative of the exilic author of the Deuteronomistic History, a narrative that provides an explanation for the trauma that the Judean community in Babylon suffered. As the book follows this explanation through the History, however, it also reads Dtr through the lens of trauma theory. Massive psychic trauma is not something that can be captured within narrative explanation, and trauma intrudes into the narrative's explanation of the exiles' trauma. Trauma challenges the claims upon which the narrative's explanation is based, thus subverting this attempt to make sens ER -