Emotion Made Right
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Emotion Made Right

Hellenistic Moral Progress and the (Un)Emotional Jesus in Mark

  1. 279 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Emotion Made Right

Hellenistic Moral Progress and the (Un)Emotional Jesus in Mark

About this book

Prominent Hellenistic moralists from ca. the first century CE warn that all emotions carry temptation(s) to sin or error. To be guilty of emotional sin is to allow psychosomatic feelings (or rising emotion) free reign to trump godly (rational) guidance of behavioral pursuits. Thus, morally minded Hellenists widely view unemotional behavior as a sign of moral progress. Emotive language peppers the Markan narrative, inviting moral assessments, yet scholarship has seldom delved into a historical-literary analysis of Jesus's emotional characterization. This study proposes a working definition of emotion apropos the narratival nature of Hellenistic emotion theory. It finds that Jesus consistently vanquishes emotional temptations with "battle" techniques similar to those championed by the moralists. Mark characterizes Jesus in the moral tradition of the anti-emotional exemplar, and several minor characters are liberated from destructive emotions through the mercy of Jesus's godly rationale. By recognizing the Markan Jesus as a model, this study outlines a method for persevering in emotional testing that modern readers might also emulate to resist temptation with divine help.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9783110723083
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Biblical Studies

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Abbreviations
  5. Chapter 1: Introduction
  6. Chapter 2: A Methodological Proposal for Discussing Emotion in a First-Century CE Milieu
  7. Chapter 3: Emotional Temptation, Disbelief, and Anti-emotional Repentance in Mark: The “Good News” of the Kingdom as Divine-Rational Empowerment
  8. Chapter 4: Mark’s “(Un)Emotional” Jesus: “He Saved Others; Himself He Cannot Save[?]” (Mark 15:31)
  9. Chapter 5: Conclusions and Implications
  10. Subject Index
  11. Ancient Sources Index
  12. Modern Authors Index