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Hearing Visions and Seeing Voices

Psychological Aspects of Biblical Concepts and Personalities

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Editors:
  1. Gerrit Glas

    1. University of Leiden, The Netherlands

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  2. Moshe Halevi Spero

    1. School of Social Work, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
      Weinstock Oncology Day Hospital, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Israel

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  3. Peter J. Verhagen

    1. Meerkanten GGZ Flevo-Veluwe, Ermelo, The Netherlands

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  4. Herman M. Praag

    1. University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
      The Albert Einstein College of Medicine, U.S.A

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  • Refined conceptual analysis of the interface between psychology and religion
  • Masterful analysis of biblical personalities, such as Job, Jeremiah, Paul, and Jesus
  • In-depth discussion of the concepts of prophecy, martyrdom, and messianism
  • Christian-Judaic (rabbinic) dialogue on biblical concepts and personalities
  • Search for new vocabularies to understand the transformative power of religion

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
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  2. Historical and Conceptual Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction to Historical and Conceptual Issues

      • Gerrit Glas
      Pages 3-7

    3. Psychiatry and Religion

      • Herman M. Van Praag
      Pages 9-19

    4. Biblical Narratives as History

      • C. Stephen Evans
      Pages 21-34

  3. Prophecy: Theological and Psychological Aspects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35
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    2. Introduction to ,Prophecy

      • Gerrit Glas
      Pages 37-40

    3. The Dynamics of Prophecy in the Writings of Abraham Joshua Heschel

      • Neil Gillman
      Pages 41-51

    4. The Prophets as Persons

      • Bob Becking
      Pages 53-63

    5. Jeremiah Interpreted

      • Bryna Jocheved Levy
      Pages 65-85

  4. Martyrdom: Theological and Psychological Aspects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
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    2. Introduction to Martyrdom

      • Gerrit Glas
      Pages 89-92

    3. Martyrdom

      • Hyam Z.L. Maccoby
      Pages 93-104

    4. The Martyrdom of Paul

      • Jakob Van Bruggen
      Pages 105-113

    5. Spiritual, Human, and Psychological Dimensions of St. Paul’s Martyrdom

      • H.W.M. TÁjrÁ
      Pages 115-124

  5. Messianism: Theological and Psychological Aspects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. Introduction to Messianism

      • Gerrit Glas
      Pages 127-131

    3. Casting a Psychological Look on Jesus the Marginal Jew

      • Antoine Vergote
      Pages 133-151

    4. The Land of Israel

      • Aviezer Ravitzky
      Pages 153-168

    5. The Person of Jesus

      • Abraham Van De Beek
      Pages 169-181
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About this book

The chapters in this book are based on papers that were presented at the international conference Psychological Aspects of Biblical Concepts and Persons, 4–6 March 2002 in Amsterdam. The conference was organized by the Dutch Foundation for Psychiatry and Re- gion (in Dutch: Stichting Psychiatrie en Religie) a small, but active and lively organization, which organizes conferences and post-graduate education for mental health professionals and which offers a platform for interdisciplinary research and discussion in the field of mental health and religion. The organizers of the conference – Gerrit Glas, Herman M. van Praag, and Peter J. Verhagen – are m- bers of the board of the Foundation. All three are psychiatrists; two of them are also professionally occupied in another discipline: theology (Verhagen) and philosophy (Glas). The primary aim of the conference was to create a space for scientific dialogue between two disciplines with a troubled and complex relationship: psychiatry and theology. The exchange of opinions and viewpoints between specifically these two fields has dried up in the course of the past century and has virtually been absent from around 1960 till at least the early nineties of the previous century. I need to clarify that we were quite specific in isolating theology and psychiatry; instead of focusing on theology and psychology, or biblical studies and psychology, or theology and psychoanalysis. Psychology and psychoanalysis do not seem to have lost all contact with theology, at least not to such an extent as have psychiatry and theology.

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"For those who attempt to integrate spirituality, religion, and religious thought into psychological, particularly psychotherapeutic, models, this multiedited book will be intriguing. … The book on the whole is thought provoking and brings a somewhat different focus to the field of religion and psychology than is usually found. … The serious scholar of psychology and religion may well wish to add it to his or her collection. Courses in theological seminaries, schools of religion, and programs of psychology would benefit … ." (Richard H. Cox, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 53 (6), 2008)

"The chapters in this book are based on papers presented in 2002 at an international conference, Psychological Aspects of Biblical Concepts and Persons, in Amsterdam. … attempts to address the overwhelming ‘numinous’ experience of man’s encounter with the divine, whether in the Bible or in pathological hallucination. … the book is aimed at clinicians, scholars and students of human behavior, the editors also hope to interest pastors and theologians." (Brian R. Skea, Journal of Religion and Health, Vol. 47, 2008)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Leiden, The Netherlands

    Gerrit Glas

  • School of Social Work, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

    Moshe Halevi Spero

  • Weinstock Oncology Day Hospital, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Israel

    Moshe Halevi Spero

  • Meerkanten GGZ Flevo-Veluwe, Ermelo, The Netherlands

    Peter J. Verhagen

  • University of Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Herman M. Praag

  • The Albert Einstein College of Medicine, U.S.A

    Herman M. Praag

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