RT Article
T1 Introduction: From Affect to Exegesis

JF Biblical interpretation
VO 22
IS 4/5
SP 381
OP 387
A1 Koosed, Jennifer L.
A1 Moore, Stephen D.
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2014
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1496069862
AB This article introduces a thematic issue of Biblical Interpretation on the high-profile field of affect theory as it relates to biblical studies. Affect theory analyzes emotions and still more elemental forces that are rooted in bodies and pass between them. In addition to previewing the six articles in the issue – three of which grapple with Hebrew Bible texts and three with early Christian texts – this introduction provides a brief history of affect theory and maps its main variants. The article also reflects on the challenges of turning a body of theory largely uninterested in literary interpretation into a set of strategies for reading biblical texts.

K1 affect theory
 : emotions
 : post-poststructuralism
 : Silvan Tomkins
 : Gilles Deleuze

DO 10.1163/15685152-02245p01