Emotions in the Hebrew Bible: A few observations on prospects and challenges

Krüger, Paul

doi:10.17159/2312-3621/2015/v28n2a10

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“…There have been great strides in identifying emotions without relying on direct emotion words, such as examining body metaphors. Paul Kruger, for example, discusses physiological expressions of emotions and body metaphors in the HB, and similarly does Ellen van Wolde (Kruger, 2015, p. 402; van Wolde, 2008). But these still focus on anger vocabulary – identifying verbal metaphors or terms to mark anger rather than context cues.…”

Section: Identifying Angermentioning

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Uncovering Hidden Anger in the Psalms Using Psychological Models of Anger

Schweers

2023

Biblical Theology Bulletin: Journal of Bible and Culture

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This article sets out to create a methodology for identifying anger in a biblical text using psychological models of anger rather than relying on explicit anger vocabulary. To do this, the article uses modern psychological research to define seven clear anger markers and show how these appear in a text like the Psalms. These markers are blocked goals, attribution of blame, approach motivation, vision of a way forward, entitlement, unmet expectations, and life stress. A selection of psalms, Pss. 60-80, are examined through the lens of these criteria to identify those psalms that contain subtle anger and those that do not.

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Section: Identifying Angermentioning

confidence: 99%

Uncovering Hidden Anger in the Psalms Using Psychological Models of Anger

Schweers

2023

Biblical Theology Bulletin: Journal of Bible and Culture

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“…Men's expressions of emotion are not judged shameful or unmasculine (note, for instance, 1 Sam 30.3-6). 33 By contrast, gender (among other status markers) is an important feature of emotional displays in Greco-Roman sources. Emotionality becomes a venue for moulding and modelling Roman values and a key element in the separation of honourable and less honourable members of the emotional community from outsiders.…”

Section: Constructions Of Gender and Public Emotionmentioning

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Women's Emotion, Community, and Politics: Interpreting Tears in Luke 23.27–31

Reeder

2023

New Testam. Stud.

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The tears of the ‘daughters of Jerusalem’ in Luke 23.27–31 are often taken as a representation of pathos. However, women's public performance of lamentation serves several purposes in the biblical prophets and Greco-Roman historiography and rhetoric. Women are responsible for mourning rituals following a death to honour the deceased and their family. They express communal lament following defeat in war. Women use tears to protest political and legal situations, swaying public opinion and decisions. The rhetorical functions of women's mourning in antiquity offer valuable insight into the potential purposes of mourning in Luke 23.27–31. The women's initial display of tears honours Jesus. The disruption of the negative perception of Jesus at this point in the narrative suggests the women's tears may be political protest. The redirection of their tears to themselves and their children provides the audience with a model response to the destruction of Jerusalem. As in Jer 9.17–22, the mourning of Luke's ‘daughters of Jerusalem’ is prophetic.

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“…An investigation in the Hebrew Bible concludes that the term emotions are dead language and shared very little knowledge. Therefore, modern comparative of social-scientific, cultural setting, social-construction, anthropological and physiological approaches are extremely needed in order to grasp its idea (Kruger, 2015). Prinz (2004) argues that emotions have a close connection to feelings in which occupy bodily changes, conscious, and modulation of a mental process such as attention.…”

Section: The Theology Of Emotionsmentioning

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Emotions: The Personality of the Spirit in the Old Testament

Rumbay¹

2022

KJSH

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The existence of the Spirit has received a long discussion in systematic theology, especially speaking, her existence in the Old Testament where the Spirit leaves less evidence of her personality. As the consequence, the personality of the Spirit has been shaken to discover its knowledge. This essay intends to grasp the personality of the Spirit in the Old Testament which relates to her divinity and works. This article is qualitative descriptive, articles, books, and other related academic references are the main sources to construct the argumentation. Furthermore, tracing the emotions of the Spirit in the Old Testament is the main attention of this research and expected could offer a new perspective on how the Spirit, as a being, rather than a power, shares emotions; grieving, love, and shyness in the Old Testament. Eksistensi Roh menerima perdebatan panjang di sistematik teologi, secara khusus, keberadaannya di Perjanjian Lama yang meninggalkan bukti yang kurang sehubungan dengan personalitasnya. Sebagai akibatnya, personalitas Roh diguncang untuk menemukan informasi-informasinya. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menemukan personalitas Roh di Perjanjian Lama yang berhubungan dengan pekerjaan dan keilahianNya. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif-deskriptif, buku-buku, artikel-artikel dan rujukan akademik lainnya sebagai sumber utama dalam membangun argumentasi. Selanjutnya, menjejaki emosi Roh di Perjanjian Lama merupakan tujuan utama penelitian ini dan diharapkan dapat menawarkan persepektif baru tentang bagaimana Roh, sebagai pribadi, bukan sekedar tenaga, menunjukan emosi, dukacita, kasih dan sifat pemalu di Perjanjian Lama.

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Emotions in the Hebrew Bible: A few observations on prospects and challenges

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Cited by 7 publications

References 24 publications

Uncovering Hidden Anger in the Psalms Using Psychological Models of Anger

Uncovering Hidden Anger in the Psalms Using Psychological Models of Anger

Women's Emotion, Community, and Politics: Interpreting Tears in Luke 23.27–31

Emotions: The Personality of the Spirit in the Old Testament

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