In his work A New Species of Trouble: The Human Experience of Modern Disasters, author Kai Erikson describes how a sense of community can arise out of a shared trauma "There is a spiritual kinship there, a sense of identity” (Erikson 231). There are however a “corrosive” effect on the life of everyone in the community and secondhand knowledge of an event will allow the survivor to escape the negative consequences. The victim is left only with a sense of belonging to a triumphant community. This line of thought is more in line with Roman tradition than with the outline provided in Genesis. Authors Margaret K. Devinney and Eva M. Thury in an Introduction to Mythology provide the explanation, “Homeric religion was a community activity, not
