Reading with feeling : affect theory and the Bible / edited by Fiona C. Black and Jennifer L. Koosed.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Black, Fiona C., editor.

Koosed, Jennifer L., editor.

Series:

Semeia studies ; no. 95.

Semeia studies ; Number 95

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Emotions.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Atlanta, GA : SBL Press, [2019]

Summary:

"The psychological approach known as affect theory focuses on bodily feelings-depression, happiness, disgust, love-and can illuminate both texts and their interpretations. In this collection of essays scholars break new ground in biblical interpretation by deploying a range of affect-theoretical approaches in their interpretations of texts. Contributors direct their attention to the political, social, and cultural formation of emotion and other precognitive forces as a corrective to more traditional historical-critical and linguistic interpretive methods, and response essays push the conversations into profitable directions for future research"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Some ways to read with feeling / Fiona C. Black, Jennifer L. Koosed

Affect and animality in 2 Samuel 12 / Ken Stone

Echoes of how : archiving trauma in Jewish liturgy / Jennifer L. Koosed

The affective potential of the lament Psalms of the individual / Amy C. Cottrill

Public suffering? : affect and the lament Psalms as forms of private-political depression / Fiona C. Black

Prophecy and the problem of happiness : the case of Jonah / Rhiannon Graybill

The disgusting apostle and a queer affect between epistles and audiences / Joseph A. Marchal

Not grudgingly, nor under compulsion : love, labor, service, and slavery in Pauline rhetoric / Robert Paul Seesengood

Though we may seem to have failed : Paul and failure in Steve Ross's Blinded / Jay Twomey

Responses.

Palpable traumas, tactile texts, and the powerful reach of Scripture / Erin Runions

The rage for method and the joy of anachronism : when Biblical scholars do affect theory / Stephen D. Moore.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Reading with feeling

ISBN:

9781628372601

1628372605

9780884144168

088414416X

OCLC:

1112797024