When the Worst has Already Happened: Modes of Resilience in the Bible

In this course, we will read closely three great stories of biblical resilience, each offering a different model of how to persevere. Starting with Saul’s search for redemption, we will make sense of the relation between resilience and desperation. But resilience is not always a desperate act. In reading David’s lament over Saul and Jonathan, we will explore how loss might allow for the opportunity for growth. In our last class, we will challenge ourselves to find resilience even in the rape of Tamar, as we consider what these models might challenge us to do in our own lives.

Bex Rosenblatt has an MA in Tanakh from Bar Ilan University and is a member of the faculty of the Conservative Yeshiva.

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