Abstract
This essay begins its discussion of biblical theology with the simple assertion that God is ineffable. Biblical language neither contains God nor provides satisfactory ontological insight into the divine being. The multiple theologies expressed in the Bible arise from and address concrete needs of historical communities and present the Holy One in ways to intervene within those realities. Theories of trauma and disaster, employed here to study presentations of divinity in Jeremiah and Genesis, provide support for this view.
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