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In every process of reading there is interaction between text and reader. Religious texts speak about God; readers of religious texts have their images of God. Thus, in the process of reading religious texts we have a triangle with text, reader and God at the extreme points. But how are these points connected? The articles in the book discuss this question. They focus on biblical texts, and they make use of different psychoanalytic approaches. The book deals with the biblical subjects of the «bloody bridegroom» in Ex 4, the Oedipus complex in the book of Esther, the Saul-David story from a Kleinian perspective, and the creation of woman. This work also examines the question of interiorization and the images of God. The contributors are scholars from several European countries and from widely differing scholarly and denominational backgrounds, who discussed their papers in the course of a European SOCRATES intensive program.

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The Editors: Rainer Kessler is a professor of the Old Testament in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Marburg, Germany. He is the author of Staat und Gesellschaft im vorexilischen Juda (Leiden 1992) and of a commentary on the book of Micah (Freiburg 2nd ed. 2000). Patrick Vandermeersch is a professor of Psychology of Religion in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Sciences at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is the author of Unresolved Questions in the Freud/Jung Debate. On Psychosis, Sexual Identity and Religion (Leuven 1991) and is currently finishing a book on the theology and psychology of religious flagellation.

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