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God and the First Families: Parenting, Trauma and Healing in the Book of Genesis - Softcover

Spector, Stephen

 
9780827616011: God and the First Families: Parenting, Trauma and Healing in the Book of Genesis
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0827616015 ISBN 13: 9780827616011
Verlag: Jewish Publication Society, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

God and the First Families offers a novel exploration of God's role as a parent in the book of Genesis. Compellingly, author Stephen Spector introduces Americans' four main perceptions of God and their four most common styles of parenting as lenses through which we can reckon with God's own methods of parenting in the first biblical book.

God begins as an authoritarian parent who demands obedience and submission to authority, but shifts in striking ways. Next, God's parenting seems entirely benevolent. Stunningly, God reverts to authoritarianism during the near sacrifice of Isaac―but then invents a new parenting style focused on guiding the characters' moral and emotional growth. Many psychologists consider this the most successful childrearing method. Genesis reached that conclusion two and a half millennia ago!

Throughout, Spector engages with familiar stories―sibling rivalries, family ruptures, traumas―from unexpected angles. He dramatizes how parental love in Genesis builds resilience against trauma, another idea validated by modern psychology. Surviving trauma, healing from parental favoritism, repairing broken relationships, earning forgiveness, possibly even reconciling after injury―Genesis offers wisdom on all.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Stephen Spector is a professor of English emeritus at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Operation Solomon: The Daring Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews and Evangelicals and Israel: The Story of American Christian Zionism, among other volumes. Spector has taught the Bible to undergraduate and graduate students for fifty years. He has been a visiting scholar at Hebrew University and a senior research fellow at the National Humanities Center and the Wesleyan Center for Humanities.

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Verlag
Jewish Publication Society
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0827616015
ISBN 13 
9780827616011
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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