RT Article
T1 Ancient Characters and Contemporary Readers: A Response to Elizabeth E. Shively & Jan Rüggemeier and Cornelis Bennema
JF Biblical interpretation
VO 29
IS 4/5
SP 452
OP 466
A1 Keen, Suzanne
A2 Rüggemeier, Jan 1981-
A2 Bennema, Cornelis 1964-
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1778189733
AB In this response essay, which culminates with an application of my theory of narrative empathy to the Parable of the Good Samaritan, I comment on an article by Cornelis Bennema and engage with the ideas in the framing, introductory essay by Jan Rüggemeier and Elizabeth E. Shively. In the course of carrying out these tasks, I also offer what I hope will be broadly useful comments on fictional and nonfictional contexts for character construction, on characters and characterization, and on the way diverse actual readers engage with characters. This essay concludes with some thoughts on narrative empathy, responding to the final section of Rüggemeier and Shively’s essay, which offers comprehensive overview of empathy and sympathy as aspects of emotional reading.
K1 referentiality
K1 Parable
K1 Nonfiction
K1 narrative empathy
K1 lifewriting
DO 10.1163/15685152-29040003