![]() Most interpreters see the little slave girl as a pillar of faith because she wishes for healing for her captor, Namaan. This article draws upon trauma studies within the field of pastoral theology to fill in the gaps of 2 Kings 5 in order to reveal new layers of meaning within the text. ![]() The multiplicity inherent in the biblical text and in its human readers invites us to look anew at texts, such as 2 Kings 5, and human situations, such as immigration and forced migration, with fresh eyes. Cross-disciplinary exchange between biblical studies and pastoral theology can help us as readers become more critically aware of the multivalence and complexities of both our own stories and biblical stories as they intersect with one another during the process of interpretation. It has flattened characters within biblical stories in favor of monologic readings, and has muted the ambiguities inherent in both reader and text. For too long, the interpretive rigidity of the historical-critical method, with its assumptions of neutrality and objectivity, has kept readers at arms-length from the biblical text. Pastoral theology argues that we as readers of the biblical text are multiple and fluid. ![]() Download PDF: Dombkowski Hopkins, Bridging the Divideīiblical interpreters argue that the Bible is a gapped, polyphonic collection of texts.
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