Feeling the Burn: Angry Brothers, Adamant Sister, and Affective Relations in the Song of Songs (1:5-6; 8:8-12)
This study aims to flesh out the tense affective relations in the Songs of Songs between the female protagonist and her hostile brothers (Song 1:5-6; 8:8-12). Based on close textual analysis informed by biblical anger prototypes, Aristotelian rhetoric, and modern theories of emotion focused on appra...
| Published in: | The catholic biblical quarterly |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Catholic Biblical Association of America
[2019]
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| In: |
The catholic biblical quarterly
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Hoheslied 1,5-6
/ Bible. Hoheslied 8,8-12
/ Sister
/ Love
/ Brother
/ Wrath
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament NCB Personal ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Anger
B Social Change B Group Identity B Black B EMOTIONS (Psychology) B Affect B performance sister B Beloved B Brother B Love B Fire B Interpersonal Relations B Song of Songs |
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| Summary: | This study aims to flesh out the tense affective relations in the Songs of Songs between the female protagonist and her hostile brothers (Song 1:5-6; 8:8-12). Based on close textual analysis informed by biblical anger prototypes, Aristotelian rhetoric, and modern theories of emotion focused on appraisal, metaphor, affective stylistics, and script performance, I propose that the young woman character constructed in the Song attributes her brothers' ire to their perceived social belittlement resulting from her independent pursuit of love beyond their control. Accordingly, this putative slighting ignites their "action tendency" to keep their little - and belittling - sister under wraps through forced vineyard labor under the scorching sun. Their scheme backfires, however, as she refuses to be "walled" up by her brothers to boost their emotional, social, and economic interests. With remarkable vitality in the face of vulnerability, she persists in flipping their script and affirming her own identity: "My vineyard, my very own, is for myself" (8:12). |
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| ISSN: | 2163-2529 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The catholic biblical quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/cbq.2019.0138 |