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      Decolonising Biblical Trauma Studies: The Metaphorical Name Shear-jashub in Isaiah 7:3ff Read Through a Postcolonial South African Perspective

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          Anyone reading the Bible will attest that Biblical scriptures preserve a collection of struggles, trauma, and hardship in their ancient communities - the same trauma markers that many South Africans can attest to. On the same continuum, anyone who is reading the book of Isaiah, are confronted with not only a difficult book but also a difficult prophet. Isaiah did not in Isaiah 7:3ff only address his prophetic utterances at the King as an individual, but also at the people of Judah as a collective group and he did so through the metaphorical name-giving of his son "Shear-jashub. " The fear of imperialism and oppression was a reality, as it would later be in apartheid South Africa. The reading of Isaiah 7:3ff from a postcolonial perspective aims to provide a decolonised biblical trauma lens that would create an understanding of a decolonised reader in a postcolonial South Africa.

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                Journal
                ote
                Old Testament Essays
                Old testam. essays
                The Old Testament Society of Southern Africa (OTSSA) (Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa )
                1010-9919
                2312-3621
                2018
                : 31
                : 3
                : 522-533
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                [01] orgnameUniversity of Pretoria
                Article
                S1010-99192018000300006
                10.17159/2312-3621/2018/v31n3a7
                dd23b75f-f72e-47da-b1ed-c72c86947e63

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 15 August 2018
                : 03 January 2019
                : 09 January 2019
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                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 32, Pages: 12
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                Trauma,Decolonising,postcolonial studies,Children,Biblical trauma,Isaiah

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