1st Edition

A Prototype Approach to Hate and Anger in the Hebrew Bible

By Deena Grant Copyright 2023
112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

This innovative book applies findings from the field of cognitive linguistics to the study of emotions in the Hebrew Bible. The book draws on the prototype approach to conceptual categories to help interpret emotion language in biblical passages. Contemporary scholarship has come to recognize that biblical emotion terms do not necessarily possess exact equivalents within our modern lexicons, even... Read more

1 Introduction

2 Discerning Modern Hate and Anger Scripts

3 Broad Biblical Sn’-Script

4 Narrative Sn’-Scripts

5 Poetic and Prophetic Sn’-Scripts

6 Broad Biblical Ḥrh-Script

7 Narrative Ḥrh-Scripts

8 Divine Ḥrh-Scripts in Old Poetry and in the Prophets

9 Conclusion

Bibliography

Biography

Deena E. Grant is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace, USA.