RT Article
T1 Emotions and Literary Genres in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and the New Testament

JF Biblical interpretation
VO 24
IS 4/5
SP 514
OP 535
A1 Gemünden, Petra von 1957-
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2016
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/156192394X
AB 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.

K1 emotion(s)
 : genre
 : Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
 : New Testament
 : envy
 : anger
 : desire

DO 10.1163/15685152-02445p05