This book's aim is to enrich and deepen our psychological understanding of biblical concepts and personalities. Such understanding is relevant for theology as well as for psychology and psychiatry. It may help theologians to contextualize their discipline by bringing it into contact with contemporary psychological and existential issues and tensions, both at an individual and a societal level. It also encourages psychologists and psychiatrists to develop and refine their vocabularies when they try to comprehend the existential meaning of what is transmitted to them by their clients.

"This book's aim is to enrich and deepen our psychological understanding of biblical concepts and personalities. Such understanding is relevant for theology as well as for psychology and psychiatry. It may help theologians to contextualize their discipline by bringing it into contact with contemporary psychological and existential issues and tensions, both at an individual and a societal level. It also encourages psychologists and psychiatrists to develop and refine their vocabularies when they try to comprehend the existential meaning of what is transmitted to them by their clients.

Historical and Conceptual Issues.- to Historical and Conceptual Issues.- Psychiatry and Religion.- Biblical Narratives as History.- Prophecy: Theological and Psychological Aspects.- to ,Prophecy.- The Dynamics of Prophecy in the Writings of Abraham Joshua Heschel.- The Prophets as Persons.- Jeremiah Interpreted.- Martyrdom: Theological and Psychological Aspects.- to Martyrdom.- Martyrdom.- The Martyrdom of Paul.- Spiritual, Human, and Psychological Dimensions of St. Paul's Martyrdom.- Messianism: Theological and Psychological Aspects.- to Messianism.- Casting a Psychological Look on Jesus the Marginal Jew.- The Land of Israel.- The Person of Jesus.- Imagining Jesus: To Portray or Betray?.- Interdisciplinary Issues: Prospects for the Future.- to Interdisciplinary Issues.- The Hidden Subject of Job.- Biblical Themes in Psychiatric Practice.- The Bible and Psychology.- Searching For The Dynamic 'Within'.