Open lecture Old Testament – Prof. Paul K. Cho

5 december kl 15, room 108
Paul K. Cho, Professor, Hebrew Bible, Wesley Theological Seminary

“Trauma, Language, and the Book of Job.”

Trauma has adverse effects on human language for both individuals and collectives. At the same time, language plays a vital role in processing and integrating the experience of trauma. In this lecture, I examine the complex trauma-language relationship that obtains
in the book of Job to better understand some of its difficult features.