Coleen L Crouch
Biographic Data
| ID | 383176 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Coleen L Crouch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Coleen L |
| FAMILY NAME | Crouch |
| SIGNATURE | CROUCH C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9569-5727 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Contesting the Past
Contested Kingship
The so-called blessings of Jacob in Gen 49 are full of textual and interpretive difficulties. The concentration of these difficulties in the verses concerning Judah (Gen 49:8–12) and Joseph (Gen 49:22–26) points to their origin in conflict over the locus of legitimate kingship. This article argues that a number of these problems are a result of disputes between the descendants of those deported to Babylon with Jehoiachin in 597 BCE and the descen…
Israel in Deuteronomy
The book of Deuteronomy is engaged in an intensive project of Israelite identity formation, provoked initially by an increased exposure to alternative cultural matrices in the southern Levant in the long seventh century bce and then reinforced by the global scope of Israelite experience in the wake of the destruction of the kingdom of Judah in the early sixth century. Although the construction of a distinctively Israelite religious and cultural i…
The North ( ṣāpôn ) in the Book of Jeremiah
The »foe from the north« is a well-known trope in the book of Jeremiah. In 1989 David Reimer argued that this enemy should be understood as a nonspecific earthly enemy, with mythical overtones deriving from the location of Yhwh ’s divine abode on Mount Zaphon. Contemporary historiographical debates, together with Otto Eißfeldt’s arguments for an Israelite tradition of a »mythischen Nordberg«, exerted significant influence on Reimer’s discussion. …
Ezekiel and the Construction of Cultural Trauma
The book of Ezekiel may be effectively understood in terms of Jeffrey Alexander’s theory of cultural trauma, in which catastrophic events take on a wider cultural significance because they are perceived as having consequences for group identity. The book of Ezekiel develops a new master narrative of Israelite history and identity, in which the catastrophes of 597 and 586 BCE are the culmination of generations of moral and religious offences again…
Israel and Judah Redefined
In Israel and Judah Redefined, C. L. Crouch uses trauma studies, postcolonial theory, and social-scientific research on migration to analyse the impact of mass displacements and imperial power on Israelite and Judahite identity in the sixth century BCE. Crouch argues that the trauma of deportation affected Israelite identity differently depending on resettlement context. Deportees resettled in rural Babylonia took an isolationist approach to Isra…
Wellness, Illness and the Psalms
Translating Empire
In this volume, C. L. Crouch and Jeremy M. Hutton offer a data-driven approach to translation practice in the Iron Age. The authors build on and reinforce Crouch's conclusions in her former work about Deuteronomy and the Akkadian treaty tradition, employing Hutton's »Optimal Translation« theory to analyze the Akkadian-Aramaic bilingual inscription from Tell Fekheriyeh. The authors argue that the inscription exhibits an isomorphic style of transla…
Mental Health and Stress Among Army Civilians, Spouses, and Soldiers in a Closing Military Community
When military community closure occurs, it can be challenging for service members and the surrounding community. Given that services and social networks disappear; this is particularly salient in overseas locations. Few studies have systematically assessed the impact of base closure on military community members. In the present study, 743 soldiers, 114 Army civilian employees, and 54 military spouses living in two closing U.S. military communitie…
Deuteronomy as a Translation of Assyrian Treaties
This article evaluates claims that the relationship between the Vassal Treaty of Esarhaddon (VTE) and the book of Deuteronomy (especially chapter 28) can properly be called one of translation. We conduct this study by analyzing the translation style of the bilingual (Akkadian-Aramaic) Tell Fekheriyeh inscription using the theoretical paradigm of Optimal Translation. We argue that the relevant passages of Deuteronomy 28 - those that have been judg…
Final Thoughts
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Before and after Exile
This article draws attention to differences in the characterisation of Israel in the poetry of Jeremiah and the judgement oracles of Ezekiel. Whilst both conceive of Israel as an ethnic entity, comprised especially of elites and associated particularly with the city of Jerusalem, Ezekiel demonstrates a much stronger interest in Israel's past history and a much more sustained focus on the homeland. We argue that these issues are resonant with the …
Migration, Political Power and the Book of Jeremiah
Made in the Image of God
This article suggests that Genesis 1 and Psalms 8, 18 and 89 reflect a mythological tradition which described the creation of the human king as Yhwh ’s counterpart in the divine battle against chaos. The residual royal features of the narrative of the creation of אדם in Genesis 1—the creation of the אדם in the image of god, to exercise dominion—appear in a context of a polemical revision of Yhwh ’s Chaoskampf and are suggestive of the older tradi…
Jan Christian Gertz, Angelika Berlejung, Konrad Schmid and Markus Witte, T&T Clark Handbook of the Old Testament
Jan Christian Gertz, Angelika Berlejung, Konrad Schmid and Markus Witte, T&T Clark Handbook of the Old Testament
Made in the Image of God
This article suggests that Genesis 1 and Psalms 8, 18 and 89 reflect a mythological tradition which described the creation of the human king as Yhwh ’s counterpart in the divine battle against chaos. The residual royal features of the narrative of the creation of אדם in Genesis 1—the creation of the אדם in the image of god, to exercise dominion—appear in a context of a polemical revision of Yhwh ’s Chaoskampf and are suggestive of the older tradi…
Deuteronomy as a Translation of Assyrian Treaties
This article evaluates claims that the relationship between the Vassal Treaty of Esarhaddon (VTE) and the book of Deuteronomy (especially chapter 28) can properly be called one of translation. We conduct this study by analyzing the translation style of the bilingual (Akkadian-Aramaic) Tell Fekheriyeh inscription using the theoretical paradigm of Optimal Translation. We argue that the relevant passages of Deuteronomy 28 - those that have been judg…
Final Thoughts
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Before and after Exile
This article draws attention to differences in the characterisation of Israel in the poetry of Jeremiah and the judgement oracles of Ezekiel. Whilst both conceive of Israel as an ethnic entity, comprised especially of elites and associated particularly with the city of Jerusalem, Ezekiel demonstrates a much stronger interest in Israel's past history and a much more sustained focus on the homeland. We argue that these issues are resonant with the …
Migration, Political Power and the Book of Jeremiah
Translating Empire
In this volume, C. L. Crouch and Jeremy M. Hutton offer a data-driven approach to translation practice in the Iron Age. The authors build on and reinforce Crouch's conclusions in her former work about Deuteronomy and the Akkadian treaty tradition, employing Hutton's »Optimal Translation« theory to analyze the Akkadian-Aramaic bilingual inscription from Tell Fekheriyeh. The authors argue that the inscription exhibits an isomorphic style of transla…
Mental Health and Stress Among Army Civilians, Spouses, and Soldiers in a Closing Military Community
When military community closure occurs, it can be challenging for service members and the surrounding community. Given that services and social networks disappear; this is particularly salient in overseas locations. Few studies have systematically assessed the impact of base closure on military community members. In the present study, 743 soldiers, 114 Army civilian employees, and 54 military spouses living in two closing U.S. military communitie…
Wellness, Illness and the Psalms
Israel and Judah Redefined
In Israel and Judah Redefined, C. L. Crouch uses trauma studies, postcolonial theory, and social-scientific research on migration to analyse the impact of mass displacements and imperial power on Israelite and Judahite identity in the sixth century BCE. Crouch argues that the trauma of deportation affected Israelite identity differently depending on resettlement context. Deportees resettled in rural Babylonia took an isolationist approach to Isra…
Ezekiel and the Construction of Cultural Trauma
The book of Ezekiel may be effectively understood in terms of Jeffrey Alexander’s theory of cultural trauma, in which catastrophic events take on a wider cultural significance because they are perceived as having consequences for group identity. The book of Ezekiel develops a new master narrative of Israelite history and identity, in which the catastrophes of 597 and 586 BCE are the culmination of generations of moral and religious offences again…
Israel in Deuteronomy
The book of Deuteronomy is engaged in an intensive project of Israelite identity formation, provoked initially by an increased exposure to alternative cultural matrices in the southern Levant in the long seventh century bce and then reinforced by the global scope of Israelite experience in the wake of the destruction of the kingdom of Judah in the early sixth century. Although the construction of a distinctively Israelite religious and cultural i…
The North ( ṣāpôn ) in the Book of Jeremiah
The »foe from the north« is a well-known trope in the book of Jeremiah. In 1989 David Reimer argued that this enemy should be understood as a nonspecific earthly enemy, with mythical overtones deriving from the location of Yhwh ’s divine abode on Mount Zaphon. Contemporary historiographical debates, together with Otto Eißfeldt’s arguments for an Israelite tradition of a »mythischen Nordberg«, exerted significant influence on Reimer’s discussion. …
Contesting the Past
Contested Kingship
The so-called blessings of Jacob in Gen 49 are full of textual and interpretive difficulties. The concentration of these difficulties in the verses concerning Judah (Gen 49:8–12) and Joseph (Gen 49:22–26) points to their origin in conflict over the locus of legitimate kingship. This article argues that a number of these problems are a result of disputes between the descendants of those deported to Babylon with Jehoiachin in 597 BCE and the descen…
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