Deryn Guest is Senior Lecturer in Hermeneutics at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of When Deborah Met Jael (2005), Beyond Feminist Biblical Studies (2012), the founding co-editor of the best-selling The Queer Bible Commentary (2006), and co-author of Transgender, Intersex and Biblical Interpretation (2016).

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• 1. Problematic parenting: Donald Winnicott and the YHWH/Israel relationship; 2. Judges' cyclical framework and trauma theory; 3. YHWH and Israel in the 'Strange Situation': attachment theory and God-talk; 4. Israel's masochistic defence mechanism; 5. Conclusion: psychological theory and biblical hermeneutics.

Deryn Guest is Senior Lecturer in Hermeneutics at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of When Deborah Met Jael (2005), Beyond Feminist Biblical Studies (2012), the founding co-editor of the best-selling The Queer Bible Commentary (2006), and co-author of Transgender, Intersex and Biblical Interpretation (2016).

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• 1. Problematic parenting: Donald Winnicott and the YHWH/Israel relationship; 2. Judges' cyclical framework and trauma theory; 3. YHWH and Israel in the 'Strange Situation': attachment theory and God-talk; 4. Israel's masochistic defence mechanism; 5. Conclusion: psychological theory and biblical hermeneutics.

Deryn Guest is Senior Lecturer in Hermeneutics at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of When Deborah Met Jael (2005), Beyond Feminist Biblical Studies (2012), the founding co-editor of the best-selling The Queer Bible Commentary (2006), and co-author of Transgender, Intersex and Biblical Interpretation (2016).

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• 1. Problematic parenting: Donald Winnicott and the YHWH/Israel relationship; 2. Judges' cyclical framework and trauma theory; 3. YHWH and Israel in the 'Strange Situation': attachment theory and God-talk; 4. Israel's masochistic defence mechanism; 5. Conclusion: psychological theory and biblical hermeneutics.