Divine Envy, Jealousy, and Vengefulness in Ancient Israel and Greece.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lasine, Stuart.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

God (Judaism)--Attributes--Biblical teaching.

God (Judaism).

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Gods, Greek.

Emotions in literature.

Jealousy in literature.

Envy in literature.

Revenge in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 p.)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Preface

List of abbreviations

1 Introduction: theories and methods

1. Studying emotions

a. Studying emotions in general

b. Studying emotions in literary texts

2. Characterizing "envy" and "jealousy"

3. Theoretical views concerning revenge and its relation to envy

4. The functions of anthropomorphic and anthropopathic deities

2 Divine envy, jealousy, and vengeance in ancient Israel and Greece

1. Are Yahweh and the Greek gods "persons" with coherent personalities?

2. Biblical and Greek understandings of divine jealousy and envy

3. Divine vengeance and its relation to envy and jealousy in biblical and Greek texts 24

a. Divine vengeance and wrath in biblical texts

b. Indignation, vengeance, and divine jealousy in ancient Greek texts

(1) Nemesis, envy, and vengeance

(2) Revenge and justice in Euripides' Hecuba

3 Yahweh as a jealous and envious God

1. The seeming impossibility of Yahweh experiencing envy

2. Is Yahweh envious of his human creatures?

a. The charge that Yahweh was envious of Adam and Eve

B. Does Yahweh envy the best of his human creatures?

c. Yahweh as both jealous and envious in relation to other gods

3. Yahweh's envy in relation to his narcissism

a. Psychological approaches to the relationship between envy and narcissism

b. Yahweh's narcissism and its relation to envy and attachment anxiety

c. The charge that Yahweh is sadistic at times

d. The charge that Yahweh's behavior is sometimes immature or infantile

4 Jealousy for Yahweh and divine vengeance

1. The three figures who are called "jealous for Yahweh"

a. Phinehas

b. Elijah

c. Jehu

2. Moses the infanticidal avenger in Numbers

a. Moses in Num 31:17-18 and Pharaoh in Exod 1:22

b. Moses' alteration of Yahweh's call for vengeance

c. Calls for mass slaughter in Num 31:17-18 and Judg 21:10-12

d. Vengeance and the "battle" in Num 31:7-8

e. Numbers 31 and the Bible's presentation of Moses

3. Divine and human motivation for vengeance in the Samson story

5 Divine envy and vengeance in Homer and Herodotus' Histories

1. Hera and divine envy in Homer and the Homeric Hymn to Apollo

2. Advice about divine envy and revenge in Herodotus

3. Avengers and the divine in Herodotus

4. Conclusions on divine envy and vengeance in Herodotus

6 Divine envy and vengeance in Greek tragedy

1. Envy and vengeance in Aeschylus' Persians

a. Explaining defeat: divine phthonos

b. Explaining defeat: hybris, failed vengeance, and divine punishment

c. Conclusions on Xerxes' defeat

2. Envy and Vengeance in Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus

a. Divine emotion and agency in Oedipus Tyrannus and Ajax

b. Oedipus as avenger and target of divine vengeance

c. Herodotus' Adrastus and Sophocles' Oedipus

d. Conclusions

Notes:

3. Envy and Revenge in Euripides' Hippolytus

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Print version: Lasine, Stuart Divine Envy, Jealousy, and Vengefulness in Ancient Israel and Greece

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9781000786927

1000786927

Publisher Number:

40031421922

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