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Notes
1 Elizabeth Boase and Christopher G. Frechette, Bible through the Lens of Trauma (Atlanta: SBL Press), 2016.
2 Christopher G. Frechette, “The Old Testament as Controlled Substance: How Insights from Trauma Studies Reveal Healing Capacities in Potentially Harmful Texts,” Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 69 (2015): 20.
3 Frechette, “Old Testament as Controlled Substance,” 21.
4 Claus Westermann, Praise and Lament in the Psalms, trans. Keith Crim and Richard Soulen (Atlanta: John Knox, 1981).
5 Walter Brueggemann, “The Costly Loss of Lament,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 36 (1986): 57–71.
6 Louis K. Stulman and Hyun Chul Paul Kim, You Are My People: An Introduction to Prophetic Literature (Nashville: Abingdon Press 2010), 8.
7 Judith Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence––From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (New York: Basic Books, 1997), 1.
8 Boas and Frechette, “Bible through the lens of Trauma,” 4–10.
9 See Brent A. Strawn, “Poetic Attachment, Psychology, Psycholinguistics, and the Psalms,” In The Oxford Handbook of the Psalms, ed. William Brown (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), 144.
10 James W. Pennebaker, Opening Up: The Healing Power of Confiding in Others (New York: Morrow, 1990).
11 Cathy Caruth, Trauma: Explorations in Memory (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), 9.
12 Pennebaker, Opening Up, 24.
13 Herman, Trauma and Recovery, 1.
14 See Eve-Marie Becker, “‘Trauma Studies’ and Exegesis: Challenges, Limits and Prospects,” in Trauma and Traumatization in Individual and Collective Dimensions: Insights from Biblical Studies and Beyond, ed. Eve-Marie Becker, Jan Dochhorn, and Else Kragelund Holt (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014), 15.
15 See Becker, “‘Trauma Studies,’” 19–20.
16 See Becker, “‘Trauma Studies,’” 24–25.
17 Pauline Boss, Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999); Boss, Loss, Trauma, and Resilience (New York: W.W. Norton, 2006).
18 Ps. 137:1. All translations are from NRSV, 1989.
19 Rita Nakashima Brock and Gabriella Lettini, Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury after War (Boston: Beacon Press, 2012).
20 Brad E. Kelle, The Bible and Moral Injury: Reading Scripture Alongside War's Unseen Wounds (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2020).
21 Herman, Trauma and Recovery, 177.
22 Ann Belford Ulanov, The Unshuttered Heart: Opening Aliveness/Deadness in the Self (Nashville: Abingdon, 2007), 39.
23 Denise Dombkowski Hopkins, Journey through the Psalms, rev. and exp. ed. (St Louis: Chalice Press, 2002), 5.
24 Christopher G. Frechette, “Destroying the Internalized Perpetrator: A Healing Function of the Violent Language against Enemies in the Psalms,” in Becker, Trauma and Traumatization, 71.
25 Frechette, “Destroying the Internalized Perpetrator,” 79.
26 Herman, Trauma and Recovery, 189.
27 Frechette, “Destroying the Internalized Perpetrator,” 79.
28 Brock and Lettini, Soul Repair, xiv-xv.
29 Denise Dombkowski Hopkins, Psalms: Books 2–3, Wisdom Commentary 21 (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2016), 352.
30 Frechette, “Destroying the Internalized Perpetrator,” 82.
31 Daniel Smith-Christopher, Jonah, Jesus, and Other Good Coyotes: Speaking Peace to Power in the Bible (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2007), 171.
32 Andrew Sung Park, From Hurt to Healing: A Theology of the Wounded (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2004), 35.
33 Park, From Hurt to Healing, 11.
34 Park, From Hurt to Healing, 57.
35 Park, From Hurt to Healing, 57.
36 Park, From Hurt to Healing, 10.
37 See Beverly R. Wallace, “A Womanist Legacy of Trauma, Grief, and Loss: Reframing the Notion of the Strong Black Woman Icon,” in Women Out of Order: Risking Change and Creating Care in a Multicultural World, ed. Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner and Teresa Snorton (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2010), 141.
38 See Chanequa Walker-Barnes, Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2014).
39 Andrew D. Lester, The Angry Christian: A Theology for Care and Counseling (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003), 58.
40 Lester, Angry Christian, 4.
41 James Hillman as quoted in Lester, Angry Christian, 25.
42 Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (New York: Penguin Books, 2014), 82.
43 van der Kolk, Body Keeps the Score, 82.
44 Carroll Saussy, The Gift of Anger: A Call to Faithful Action (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1995), 141.
45 See Oded Lipschits, “Demographic Changes in Judah between the Seventh and the Fifth Centuries B.C.E.,” in Judah and the Judeans in the Neo-Babylonian Period, ed. Oded Lipschits and Joseph Blenkinsopp (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2003), 323–76.
46 Dombkowski Hopkins, Psalms, 281.
47 Herman, Trauma and Recovery, 155.
48 Strawn, “Poetic Attachment,” 416.
49 Strawn, “Poetic Attachment,” 413.
50 Donald W. Winnicott, The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment: Studies in the Theory of Emotional Development (New York: International Universities Press, 1965), 43.
51 Winnicott, Maturational Processes, 145.
52 Winnicott, Maturational Processes, 49.
53 Denise Dombkowski Hopkins and Michael S. Koppel, Grounded in the Living Word: The Old Testament and Pastoral Care Practices (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans), 217.
54 Dombkowski Hopkins, Psalms, 281.
55 Kathleen O’Connor, Jeremiah: Pain and Promise (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2011), 47–8 and 50.
56 Herman, Trauma and Recovery, 101–03.
57 Frechette, “Destroying the Internalized Perpetrator,” 72.
58 Dombkowski Hopkins, Psalms, 283.
59 Rolf Jacobsen, “Many Are Saying”: The Function of Direct Discourse in the Hebrew Psalter (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 2004), 43.
60 Dombkowski Hopkins, Psalms, 284.
61 Konrad Schaefer, Psalms, Berit Olam (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2001), 195.
62 O’Connor, Jeremiah, 44.
63 Frechette, “Destroying the Internalized Perpetrator,” 25.
64 Dombkowski Hopkins, Psalms, 284.
65 van der Kolk, Body Keeps the Score, 43.
66 van der Kolk, Body Keeps the Score, 43.
67 Denise Dombkowski Hopkins, “Bridging the Divide between the Bible and Practical Theology in 2 Kings 5,” Practical Matters Journal (June 17, 2019). http://practicalmattersjournal.org/?p=3903. Supported by the Lilly Foundation through the Initiative in Religious Practice and Practical Theology.
68 van der Kolk, Body Keeps the Score, 3.
69 van der Kolk, Body Keeps the Score, 3.
70 van der Kolk, Body Keeps the Score, 3.
71 Barbara A. Holmes, Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004), 27.
72 Michael S. Koppel, Body Connections: Body-Based Spiritual Care (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2021).
73 Holmes, Joy Unspeakable, 74.
74 O’Connor, Jeremiah, 44.
75 Dombkowski Hopkins, Psalms, 239.
76 Dombkowski Hopkins, Psalms, 241.
77 Dorothee Sölle quoted in Storm Swain, Trauma and Transformation at Ground Zero: A Pastoral Theology (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2011), 96.
78 Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, God–Christ–Church: A Practical Guide to Process Theology (New York: Crossroad, 1982), 225–26.
79 Teresa McGee, Transforming Trauma: A Path Toward Wholeness (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2005), 62.
80 See the cathedral website: www.wnc.org.
81 Melissa M. Kelly, Grief: Contemporary Theory and the Practice of Ministry (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2010), 66.
82 Dombkowski Hopkins, Psalms, 347.
83 Dombkowski Hopkins, Psalms, 349.
84 Schaefer, Psalms, 213.
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Denise Dombkowski Hopkins
Denise Dombkowski Hopkins, Woodrow and Mildred Miller Professor of Biblical Theology and Hebrew Bible at Wesley Theological Seminary, Emerita, in Washington DC, has among other writing, published Journey through the Psalms (Chalice, 2002) and Psalms: Books 2–3 (Liturgical Press, 2016).
Michael S. Koppel
Michael S. Koppel, Howard Chandler Robbins Professor of Pastoral Theology and Congregational Care and former Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC, has recently published Body Connections: Body-Based Spiritual Care (Abingdon, 2021).
Together, Denise Dombkowski Hopkins and Michael Koppel have coauthored Grounded in the Living Word: The Old Testament and Pastoral Care Practices (Eerdmans, 2010), co-edited Biblical and Pastoral Bridgework: Interdisciplinary Conversations (Pickwick, 2023) and Bridging the Divide between Bible and Practical Theology (Cambridge Scholars, 2018), and co-founded the Bible and Practical Theology Section of the Society of Biblical Literature.