From Fratricide to Forgiveness : : The Language and Ethics of Anger in Genesis / / Matthew R. Schlimm.
In the first book of the Bible, every patriarch and many of the matriarchs become angry in significant ways. However, scholars have largely ignored how Genesis treats this emotion, particularly how Genesis functions as Torah by providing ethical instruction about handling this emotion's perplex...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Siphrut: Literature and Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part 1 The Language of Anger
- Chapter 2 Traversing Foreign Terrain: The Troubles of Translating Emotion
- Chapter 3 Imposing Western Assumptions on the Text: Irrationality as Senseless Violence
- Chapter 4 The Hebrew Bible's Prototypical Understanding of Anger
- Chapter 5 Biblical Anger's Associative Networks
- Chapter 6 Biblical Anger and Conceptual Metaphor
- Part 2 Daybreak after the Dim Glow of the Enlightenment: Approaching the Ethics of Genesis
- Chapter 7 Advances in Old Testament Ethics
- Chapter 8 Ethics, Emotion, and Experience: The Power of Stories
- Part 3 In Search of A Brother's Keeper: Anger and Its Antitheses in Genesis
- Chapter 9 Ethics outside Eden: Cain and Abel
- Chapter 10 A Land of Limitations: Anger among Shepherds
- Chapter 11 Anger at the Margins
- Chapter 12 Attempting Reconciliation: Brothers at the End of Genesis
- Chapter 13 Synthesis and Conclusion: Hope in a World of Limitations
- Appendixes
- Appendix A: The Statistics of Biblical Language for Anger
- Appendix B: Hebrew Words for Anger
- Bibliography
- Indexes
- Index of Authors
- Index of Scripture
- Index of Key Hebrew Words
- Index of Subjects