'Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child:' Considering the Metaphor of Divine Adoption in the Context of Trauma

This article will explore the rhetorical and theological significance of the metaphor of divine adoption in the Hebrew Bible. In Ps 22:10–11 and Ps 71:6–9 God is not only said to pull the psalmist out of his/her mother’s womb, but in a context in which many mothers all too often died in childbirth,...

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Main Author: Claassens, L. Juliana M. 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2023
In: Religions
Year: 2023, Volume: 14, Issue: 1
Further subjects:B Psalm 27
B Psalm 68
B Trauma Hermeneutics
B female language for God
B Adoption
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