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.