RT Article
T1 Social disorder and the trauma of the Earth community : reading Hosea 4:1-3 in light of today’s crises
JF Old Testament essays
VO 29
IS 3
SP 481
OP 501
A1 Kavusa, Kivatsi Jonathan 1982-
LA English
PB SA ePublications
YR 2016
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1879015285
AB The world currently faces terrible issues of corruption, conflicts, political instabilities, violence and injustices causing traumatic experiences for humans and nature. Likewise, Hos 4:1-3 offers a link between the corruption of the Israelite society and the wounds of the Earth community. These three verses are generally read as a רִיב genre, in which Yahweh brings a lawsuit against the people of Israel. However, scholars mostly focus on the crimes and fate of humans, and ignore or silence the expression of trauma of the Earth as mourning and its non-human members as languishing. Using the framework of trauma studies, the insights of "Cosmic Covenant" from the book of Murray (1992) and the Earth Bible principles of interconnectedness and voice, this article aims to explore a unique aspect of Hosea’s rhetoric of trauma establishing the relationship between people’s misdeeds and the wounds of the natural world.
K1 Cosmic covenant
K1 Creation reversal
K1 Earth Community
K1 Ecological Hermeneutics
K1 Interconnectedness
K1 Trauma