Psychology and the Bible [4 volumes]: A New Way to Read the Scriptures

Studying religion through the lens of psychology has been a growing trend for the past two decades in scholarly circles. This title, the first of its kind in the field, brings together leading experts who have studied the Bible from the point of view of psychology. They show us, for example, how Freud (a strongly anti-religious figure) viewed the Bible, they spotlight personalities in the Bible as seen through the insights of psychology, identify maladies we think of as modern, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, in the scriptures, and focus on the strong role of the psychology of shame in the sacred texts.