Taking Hold of the Real

Harvey, Barry

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“…Though events never repeat themselves identically, there is the contention that a nonidentical repetition is at work in God's redemptive activity in the world, a repetition articulated through typological interpretation. 45 This 'real connection', as Harvey explains, does not merely involve noting parallels across time, but indeed entails the compression of temporal distance: figural interpretation draws together what historical distance would seem to separate. It is in this way that, as Jeremy Worthen observes, when Bonhoeffer reads Psalm 74 in the context of Kristallnacht, the subject of the psalm is not 'merely "some ancient Israelites"', but indeed 'might be extended to include the Jewish people' of 1938.…”

Section: Psalms Of Suffering In Bonhoeffer's Figural Exegesismentioning

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Psalm 74:8 and November 1938: rereading Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Kristallnacht annotation in its interpretive context

Clark¹

2018

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Following Kristallnacht, Dietrich Bonhoeffer marked the date of the pogrom beside Psalm 74:8 in his personal Bible. This annotation has been frequently cited; however, though scholars have recognised historical implications of associating this psalm text with Kristallnacht, the discourse has yet to examine this annotation thoroughly in the context of Bonhoeffer's figural interpretation of the Psalms during this period. This article will establish the context of Bonhoeffer's figural approach to the Psalter in order to address this question: by connecting Psalm 74:8 with Kristallnacht, what theological claim might Bonhoeffer have been making about the events of November 1938?

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Section: Psalms Of Suffering In Bonhoeffer's Figural Exegesismentioning

confidence: 99%