Vielfalt der Emotionen in neutestamentlicher und frühchristlicher Literatur
Exegetische Studien zu Darstellung, Funktion und Deutung
Edited by Anna-Lena Kassner Edited by Paula Josephine Greiner-Bär Edited by Saskia Breuer Edited by Andrea Beyer
Paperback (Forthcoming)
(January 2027)
ISBN: 9783162010711
6.1 x 9.13 inches
Price: $150.00
What do people feel, and how do biblical and early Christian texts narrate these emotions? The contributors to this volume trace the fear of God, grief, anger, joy, disgust, and love through ancient texts, showing how language and culture shape what people feel – and what those feelings mean for individuals, communities, and faith.
The contributors to this volume examine emotions in biblical and early Christian texts as historically and culturally conditioned phenomena that cannot be reduced to intrapsychic states. Central to the volume is the thesis that emotions in ancient texts are encoded bodily, relationally, linguistically, and socially, and can therefore only be adequately understood when interpreted within their respective cultural and literary contexts. The contributors focus primarily on early Jewish and early Christian texts from the eastern Mediterranean in the Hellenistic-Roman period, while also engaging traditions of the Hebrew Bible and ancient philosophical and rhetorical discourses on emotion.
Methodologically, the volume combines semantic-philological, narratological, cultural-historical and emotion-historical, as well as historical-psychological approaches. Its theoretical impulses derive in particular from the affective turn, from cultural theories of emotion, and from the concept of emotional communities. The individual essays take up fear of God, grief, anger, joy, zeal, disgust, pain, and love – and equally the deliberate reduction of emotional attributions.
Across the volume, the essays show that emotions in biblical and early Christian texts shape character construction, identity formation, and the constitution of communities, as well as ethical and theological self-definition. At the same time, they highlight the close interrelationship between emotion, embodiment, cognition, language, and social practice. Read as cultural practice rather than inner states, emotions open up the anthropological, literary, and theological dimensions of ancient texts anew.
Vorwort: Andrea Beyer, Saskia Breuer, Paula J. Greiner-Bär, Anna-Lena Kassner: Homo Emoticus: Der (un)emotionale Mensch
Teil I: Einzelne Emotionen
Mirjam Jekel: Zwischen Höllenangst und Kuschelgott. Konzepte biblischer Gottesfurcht und ihre Konsequenzen - Paula Josephine Greiner-Bär: Klagende Frauen und weinende Männer. Trauer angesichts von Not, Leid und Tod bei den Synoptikern - Petra von Gemünden: Mit oder ohne Zorn. Zur Wertung des Zorns in der Antike - Jonathan Capellán-Matos: Die Freude in Röm 15,13 - χαρά und wo sie zu finden ist - Daniel Wiebe: Göttliche und weltliche Freude. Die Ambivalenz der Freude (χαρά) im Jakobusbrief - Saskia Breuer: The Matter of Zeal in Acts 4-5 - Markus Lau: Ekelhaft! Exegetische Beobachtungen zur Konstruktion von "Ekel" in neutestamentlichen Texten
Teil II: Querschnitte
Andrea Beyer: Kein Wort für "fühlen". Die Konzeptionalisierung von "Emotionen" im AT als methodologische Herausforderung - Matthias Berghorn: Ein emotionaler Mensch im Angesicht der Gottesherrschaft. Ein Beitrag zu Vorkommen, Funktion und Nutzung von Emotionen in den synoptischen Parabeln - Nils Neumann: Gemischte Gefühle? Der Schmerz im Markusevangelium - Benjamin Lensink: Mangel an Emotion? Jesus im Lukasevangelium und Thomas in den apokryphen Thomasakten - Anna-Lena Kassner: Liebe im johanneischen Schrifttum. Zwischen Beziehung, Ethik und Affekt
Anna-Lena Kassner (Herausgegeben von)
Born 1995; 2025 Doctorate from Leibniz University Hannover; Research Associate at the Institute of Theology, Leibniz University Hannover, Department of New Testament.
Paula Josephine Greiner-Bär (Herausgegeben von)
Born 1997; Doctoral Candidate and Research Associate at the Chair of Exegesis and Theology of the New Testament, Faculty of Catholic Theology, University of Erfurt.
Saskia Breuer (Herausgegeben von)
Born 1988; 2021 Doctorate from the Faculty of Theology Paderborn; Advisor for Lower Secondary Education (Sekundarstufe I) at Hauptschule, Realschule, Gesamtschule, and Sekundarschule level, and for kokoRU (Sek I) in the Archdiocese of Paderborn.
Andrea Beyer (Herausgegeben von)
Born 1982; 2013 Doctorate from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg; 2023 Habilitation there; Privatdozentin at the Institute of Old Testament, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.
- Edited by Anna-Lena Kassner
- Edited by Paula Josephine Greiner-Bär
- Edited by Saskia Breuer
- Edited by Andrea Beyer
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Ephesians and Empire
An Evaluation of the Epistle's Subversion of Roman Imperial Ideology
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Thaumaturgic Prowess
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Figuren als Handlungsmodelle
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Allegory Transformed
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