The Emotions in Biblical Anthropology? A Genealogy and Case Study with yrʾ
In the late nineteenth century, the British writer Lewis Carroll published a nonsensical poem called The Hunting of the Snark in which an unlikely alliance hunts a fictional animal, which Carroll named the snark. Despite the alliance's intense search for the snark and their questions about ho...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2017]
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Harvard theological review
Year: 2017, Volume: 110, Issue: 4, Pages: 520-540 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Emotion
/ Philosophy
/ Theology
/ History
B Old Testament / Emotion / Hebrew language / Word root / yrʾ |
| IxTheo Classification: | FA Theology HB Old Testament KAA Church history NBE Anthropology VA Philosophy |
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| Summary: | In the late nineteenth century, the British writer Lewis Carroll published a nonsensical poem called The Hunting of the Snark in which an unlikely alliance hunts a fictional animal, which Carroll named the snark. Despite the alliance's intense search for the snark and their questions about how to describe and classify it (apparently, a Boojum), they do not find it. I want to suggest that any effort to locate emotions in the Hebrew Bible or the ancient Near East is comparable to hunting the snark. If we want our hunt to be successful, we will turn away from the emotions and toward something more like the psychological taxonomy that the emotions displaced in the late-modern period: namely, the taxonomy of passions and affections. The emotions are simply not to be found in the Hebrew Bible or in the historical contexts behind its emergence. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816017000256 |