Psychology and the Bible [Four Volumes]

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Psychology and the Bible [Four Volumes] A New Way to Read the Scriptures

J. Harold Ellens, Wayne G. Rollins

Foreword by Donald Capps

Praeger Perspectives

Book Code: C8347

ISBN: 0-275-98347-1

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98347-5

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Praeger Publishers

Publication: 12/30/2004

List Price: $329.95 (UK Sterling Price: £185.00)

Availability: In Stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality

Reviews:

Highly recommended. General and academic readers.
—Choice June 2005
Would I buy this set? Yes, if I were a psychology teacher, a Christian counselor, a person interested in the Bible and psychology, or just a sponge for knowledge....I would recommend my city or college library put it on their shelves.
—Perspectives on Scienc and Christian Faith June 2005

Endorsement From Jack Miles,
Pulitzer Prize recipient
author of God: A Biography and Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God: Psychological approaches to the Bible, always popular with the general reader but rather out of fashion of late among the cognoscenti, receive in this anthology a welcome, rigorous, and refreshing revival.

Description: As Princeton scholar Donald Capps says in the Foreword, "Decades from now, our successors will surely wonder how such a monumental undertaking as these four volumes on psychology and the Bible could have ever come about." These books provide the first comprehensive portrait from a relatively new field that combines psychological analysis with biblical studies. Thirty-four experts from seven countries gather here to show us how the various schools of psychology interpret the scriptures, from sexual laws and beliefs about shame to the personalities of Jesus, Job, and the prophet Ezekiel. A range of psychological perspectives from Freud to Kohut is chronicled, demonstrating a broad spectrum of applications from the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. The first volume, From Freud to Kohut, explains how 14 different psychological schools--including Freudian psychology, Jungian psychology, developmental and social psychology, and post traumatic stress disorder theory--view the scriptures. The second volume, From Genesis to Apocalyptic Vision applies psychological theory to interpreting the Hebrew Bible. The third volume, From Gospels to Gnostic, provides psychological insights on the New Testament, including the parables of Jesus and the book of Revelation. And the final volume, From Christ to Jesus, focuses on the new field of psychological inquiry into the Gospel accounts of the life of Jesus.

Table of Contents:

Volume I
Foreword
Series Foreword
1 Introduction
2 Reading the Bible in Three Dimensions: Psychological Biblical Interpretation
3 Sexuality in the Hebrew Bible: Freuds Lens
4 Jung, Analytical Psychology, and the Bible
5 Theissens Integration of Psychology and New Testament Studies: Learning Theory, Psychodynamics, and Cognitive Psychology
6 Developmental Psychology in Biblical Studies
7 Winnicotts Squiggle Game and Biblical Interpretation
8 Gospel Narrative and Psychoanalytic Criticism: Peter Brooks, Norman Holland, and Jacques Lacan
9 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Vicarious Atonement in the Second Isaiah
10 Family Systems Psychology as Hermeneutic
11 A Romantic Psychologist Reads the Bible: Eugen Drewermann
12 The Psychosymbolic Approach to Biblical Interpretation
13 Jewish and Christian Messianism: The Psychoanalytic Approach of Heinz Kohut
14 The Bible and Psychology: An Interdisciplinary Pilgrimage
Glossary
Index
About the Contributors
About the Series Editor and Advisers
Volume II
Foreword
Series Foreword
1 Introduction
2 Wrestling with God: Psychological Insights in Bible Study
3 The Psychodynamics of the Fall Story: Genesis 2:253:24
4 What Is Wrong with This Picture? Daughters and Fathers in Genesis
5 Jacob: A Study in Individuation
6 A Psychological Approach to the Book of Jonah
7 Lady Wisdom: A Polytheistic and Psychological Interpretation of a Biblical Goddess
8 Psychotherapeutic Change in the Book of Job
9 Reading the Prophecies of Jeremiah through a Psychoanalytic Lens
10 Psychoanalyzing Ezekiel
11 An Adequate Psychological Approach to the Book of Ezekiel
12 Traumatizing Ezekiel, the Exilic Prophet
13 Whats in a Name? That Which We Call a Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet: Gods Name, Lacan, and the Ultimate Phallus
14 The Day of the L from a Jungian Perspective: Amos 5:1820
15 Role and Selfhood in Hebrew Prophecy
16 Because of My Grief I Have Spoken: The Psychology of Loss in 4 Ezra
17 The Visionary Practices of Jewish Apocalyptists
Glossary
Index
About the Contributors
About the Series Editor and Advisers
Volume III
Foreword
Series Foreword
1 Introduction
2 Snagged by the Seat of My Pants While Reading the Bible
3 Object Relations Theory and Mark 15:3339: Interpreting Ourselves Interpreting the Bible
4 The Parable and the Centered Self: Ericksons Confusion Technique as Hermeneutic for the Stories of Jesus
5 Coping with the Death of Jesus: The Gospels and the Theory of Grief Work
6 Reading Mark for the Pleasure of Fantasy
7 The Psychology of Johannine Symbolism
8 The Cognitive Origins of Johns Unitive and Disunitive Christology
9 A Psychodynamic Approach to 2 Corinthians 1013
10 Differentiation in the Family of Faith: The Prodigal Son and Galatians 12
11 Pauls Letter to the Galatians in Social-Psychological Perspective
12 Revelation 17: The Apocalypse as Psychic Drama
13 Psychological Aspects of Biblical Apocalypticism
14 The Bible and the Psychology of Shame
15 Biblical Imagery and Psychological Likeness
16 Psyche, Soul, and Self in Historical and Contemporary Perspective
17 Begotten, Not Created: The Gnostic Use of Language in Jungian Perspective
Glossary
Index
About the Contributors
About the Series Editor and Advisers
Volume IV
Foreword
Series Foreword
1 Introduction
2 From Christ to Jesus: The Jesus Quest
3 Psychobiography: A New and Challenging Methodology in Jesus Research
4 A Psychobiography of Jesus
5 Jesus: A Psychological and Historical Portrait
6 Beyond Schweitzer and the Psychiatrists: Jesus as Fictive Personality
7 Jay Haleys Psychological Portrait of Jesus: A Power Tactician
8 Erik Eriksons Psychological Portrait of Jesus: Jesus as Numinous Presence
9 The Original Impulse of Jesus
10 Social Identity, Status Envy, and Jesus as Fatherless Child
11 A Way Forward in the Scientific Investigation of Gospel Traditions: Cognitive-Critical Analysis
12 The Myth of History and the Evolution of Consciousness: A Jesus Scholar in Psychological Perspective
13 Jesus and Transformation
14 The Bible and the Alchemy of Language in Psychological Perspective
Glossary
Index
About the Contributors
About the Series Editor and Advisers

LC Card Number: 2004050863

LCC Class: BS645

Dewey Class: 220


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