Rebecca W Poe Hays
Biographic Data
| ID | 9489386 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca W Poe Hays |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca W Poe |
| FAMILY NAME | Hays |
| SIGNATURE | HAYS R W P |
| AFFILIATIONS | George W. Truett Theological Seminary of Baylor University, Waco, TX 76798 |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8474-2770 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Trauma Healing through Psalms 136–139
This article draws together insights from trauma theory and the conversation in Psalms scholarship known as “Psalmenexegese und Psalterexegese” or as the question of “shape and shaping” to propose a reading of Pss 136–139 as a pathway to trauma healing. This sequence of psalms moves participants toward healing by preparing them for the work of trauma healing through a mantra-like focus (Ps 136), unleashing the full range of human stress-responses…
Telling Stories for Healing and Resilience
The poetic telling of stories—especially stories of ancestral failings and ongoing relationship to those failings—is a key aspect of how the book of Psalms moves audiences from trauma to healing and resilience. Trauma blocks the ability of survivors to narrate a coherent story of their experiences. Learning to tell traumatic stories—and integrate them into life moving forward—is a significant factor in healing from past traumas and building the r…
Love, Marriage, and a Delayed Harvest
In the book of Isaiah, the “Song of the Vineyard” (5:1–7) merges garden imagery and love-song language together in a distinctive way. In Isa 61, garden imagery and marital language appear side by side, and the concluding hymn (vv. 10–11) sets the two images in explicit parallel. I argue that the imagery in Isa 61 is a reversing echo of the imagery of Isa 5:1–7 and communicates a message of restoration in keeping with the rest of Isa 60–62. By rev…
How cursing can be an act of Christian love
A Rhetorical Solution to a Text-critical Problem in Psalm 69
The final word in Ps 69:27 presents a text-critical problem for interpreters: the MT reads יספרו , »they talked about«, but the LXX/Syr. reflect a Hebrew Vorlage that read יספיו or יספו , »they added to«. This article argues that the variants emerged due to the challenge of translating word play across languages. The reconciliation of the resulting readings does not require the choice of one interpretation over the other; instead, the »original« …
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A Rhetorical Solution to a Text-critical Problem in Psalm 69
The final word in Ps 69:27 presents a text-critical problem for interpreters: the MT reads יספרו , »they talked about«, but the LXX/Syr. reflect a Hebrew Vorlage that read יספיו or יספו , »they added to«. This article argues that the variants emerged due to the challenge of translating word play across languages. The reconciliation of the resulting readings does not require the choice of one interpretation over the other; instead, the »original« …
Telling Stories for Healing and Resilience
The poetic telling of stories—especially stories of ancestral failings and ongoing relationship to those failings—is a key aspect of how the book of Psalms moves audiences from trauma to healing and resilience. Trauma blocks the ability of survivors to narrate a coherent story of their experiences. Learning to tell traumatic stories—and integrate them into life moving forward—is a significant factor in healing from past traumas and building the r…
Love, Marriage, and a Delayed Harvest
In the book of Isaiah, the “Song of the Vineyard” (5:1–7) merges garden imagery and love-song language together in a distinctive way. In Isa 61, garden imagery and marital language appear side by side, and the concluding hymn (vv. 10–11) sets the two images in explicit parallel. I argue that the imagery in Isa 61 is a reversing echo of the imagery of Isa 5:1–7 and communicates a message of restoration in keeping with the rest of Isa 60–62. By rev…
How cursing can be an act of Christian love
Trauma Healing through Psalms 136–139
This article draws together insights from trauma theory and the conversation in Psalms scholarship known as “Psalmenexegese und Psalterexegese” or as the question of “shape and shaping” to propose a reading of Pss 136–139 as a pathway to trauma healing. This sequence of psalms moves participants toward healing by preparing them for the work of trauma healing through a mantra-like focus (Ps 136), unleashing the full range of human stress-responses…
Art (4 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Biblical studies (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Contemporary Christian Leadership and Education (2 works)