Emotions and Literary Genres in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and the New Testament


This essay argues that there is a relationship between the presentation and evaluation of emotions, on the one hand, and the genre(s) in which these are present, on the other hand. A significant difference can be observed between narrative and paraenetic texts. In narrative texts, we find a pluralit...

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1. VerfasserIn: Gemünden, Petra von 1957- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Brill 2016
In: Biblical interpretation
Jahr: 2016, Band: 24, Heft: 4/5, Seiten: 514-535
IxTheo Notationen:HC Neues Testament
HD Frühjudentum
NBE Anthropologie
weitere Schlagwörter:B emotion(s)
 genre
 Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
 New Testament
 envy
 anger
 desire

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Zusammenfassung:This essay argues that there is a relationship between the presentation and evaluation of emotions, on the one hand, and the genre(s) in which these are present, on the other hand. A significant difference can be observed between narrative and paraenetic texts. In narrative texts, we find a plurality of emotions that are evaluated in a differentiated manner, accepted as reality, and linked to the body. In paraenetic texts, emotions are often reduced to a single alternative. Great authorities urge one to avoid these emotions in future, whereas narratives tend to give the reader the opportunity to take one’s distance from them. Different anthropological possibilities of perceiving and coping with reality correspond to the different genres.

ISSN:1568-5152
Enthält:In: Biblical interpretation
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685152-02445p05