From fratricide to forgiveness
Schlimm, Matthew Richard.
From fratricide to forgiveness the language and ethics of anger in Genesis / [electronic resource] : Matthew Richard Schlimm. - Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2011 - 1 online resource (xiv, 242 p.) - Siphrut, literature and theology of the Hebrew Scriptures ; v. 7 . - Siphrut ; v. 7. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Traversing foreign terrain : the troubles of translating emotion -- Imposing Western assumptions on the text : irrationality as senseless violence -- The Hebrew Bible's prototypical understanding of anger -- Biblical anger's associative networks -- Biblical anger and conceptual metaphor -- Advances in Old Testament ethics -- Ethics, emotion, and experience : the power of stories -- Ethics outside Eden : Cain and Abel -- A land of limitations : anger among shepherds -- Anger at the margins -- Attempting reconciliation : brothers at the end of Genesis -- Synthesis and conclusion : hope in a world of limitations -- Appendix A : the statistics of biblical language for anger -- Appendix B : Hebrew words for anger.
1575066602 (electronic bk.) 9781575066608 (electronic bk.)
Bible.--O.T.--Genesis--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Anger in the Bible.
RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament
Electronic books.
BS1199.A53 / S35 2011
222/.110815247
From fratricide to forgiveness the language and ethics of anger in Genesis / [electronic resource] : Matthew Richard Schlimm. - Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2011 - 1 online resource (xiv, 242 p.) - Siphrut, literature and theology of the Hebrew Scriptures ; v. 7 . - Siphrut ; v. 7. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Traversing foreign terrain : the troubles of translating emotion -- Imposing Western assumptions on the text : irrationality as senseless violence -- The Hebrew Bible's prototypical understanding of anger -- Biblical anger's associative networks -- Biblical anger and conceptual metaphor -- Advances in Old Testament ethics -- Ethics, emotion, and experience : the power of stories -- Ethics outside Eden : Cain and Abel -- A land of limitations : anger among shepherds -- Anger at the margins -- Attempting reconciliation : brothers at the end of Genesis -- Synthesis and conclusion : hope in a world of limitations -- Appendix A : the statistics of biblical language for anger -- Appendix B : Hebrew words for anger.
1575066602 (electronic bk.) 9781575066608 (electronic bk.)
Bible.--O.T.--Genesis--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Anger in the Bible.
RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament
Electronic books.
BS1199.A53 / S35 2011
222/.110815247
