This essay argues that there is a relationship between the presentation and evaluation of emotions, on the one hand, and the genre(s) in which these are present, on the other hand. A significant difference can be observed between narrative and paraenetic texts. In narrative texts, we find a plurality of emotions that are evaluated in a differentiated manner, accepted as reality, and linked to the body. In paraenetic texts, emotions are often reduced to a single alternative. Great authorities urge one to avoid these emotions in future, whereas narratives tend to give the reader the opportunity to take oneâs distance from them. Different anthropological possibilities of perceiving and coping with reality correspond to the different genres.â©
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âA. Wierzbicka, Emotions across Languages and Cultures: Diversity and Universals (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction, II; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). In addition to the question of concepts, there is also the question of the universality of emotions. Here too, we must be cautious. Many historians, such as R. Boddice, have recently pointed âto historical differences in the ways in which emotions themselves were conceptualized (as passions, e.g., centred in the heart, the spleen, and only latterly in the brain)â. See R. Boddice, âThe Affective Turn: Historicizing the Emotionsâ, in C. TileagÄ and J. Byford (eds.), Psychology and History: Interdisciplinary Explorations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 150â51.
âOn this, see T. de Bruin, The Great Controversy: The Individualâs Struggle between Good and Evil in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and in Their Jewish and Christian Contexts (NTOA, 106; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015), pp. 36â42. M. Winter (Das Vermächtnis Jesu und die Abschiedsworte der Väter [FRLANT, 161; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1994], pp. 199â204) proposed the genre of âVermächtnisredeâ.
âE. von Nordheim, Die Lehre der Alten, I. Das Testament als Literaturgattung im Judentum der hellenistisch-römischen Zeit (ALGHJ, 13.1; Leiden: Brill, 1980), vol. 1, p. 15; de Bruin, Controversy, p. 43.
âT. Onuki, Gnosis und Stoa: Eine Untersuchung zum Apokryphon des Johannes (NTOA, 9; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1989), pp. 35â37.
âSee Hollander and de Jonge, Commentary, p. 277. In contrast to Hollander and de Jonge, J. Becker (Die Testamente der zwölf Patriarchen [JSHRZ III, Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlag, 1980], p. 92) proposes that the version of manuscript β (âI rejoicedâ) is secondary and influenced by T. Dan 1:5.
âTranslation by de Jonge, Testaments, p. 91; see also M. Konradt, ââFliehet die Unzuchtâ (TestRub 5,5): Sexualethische Perspektiven in den Testamenten der Zwölf Patriarchenâ, in M. Konradt and E. Schläpfer (eds.), Anthropologie und Ethik im Frühjudentum und im Neuen Testament (WUNT, 322; Tübingen: Mohr, 2014), p. 265 including n. 77 (cf. also T. Reu. 5:3b).
âSee I. Rosen-Zvi, âBilhah the Temptress: The Testament of Reuben and the âBirth of Sexualityââ, JQR 96.1 (2006), pp. 65â94. In T. Reu 3:11â15 (unlike its âparallelâ in Jubilees 33), the emphasis lies (1) on the διάνοια, which is influenced by the sight of the naked Bilhah, and (2) on the thoughts influenced by this sight, which precede the action (Konradt, ââFliehet die Unzuchtââ, p. 252). This is why T. Reu. 4:1 also exhorts: âPay no attention, therefore, to womenâs beautyâ.
âOn this, see U. Luz, Das Evangelium nach Matthäus (Matt. 26â28) (EKK, I.4; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 2002), p. 272 n. 43.
âSee G. TheiÃen, âFrauen im Umfeld Jesuâ, Jesus als historische Gestalt: Beiträge zur Jesusforschung. Zum 60. Geburtstag von G. TheiÃen (ed. A. Merz; FRLANT, 202; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2003), p. 103.
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This essay argues that there is a relationship between the presentation and evaluation of emotions, on the one hand, and the genre(s) in which these are present, on the other hand. A significant difference can be observed between narrative and paraenetic texts. In narrative texts, we find a plurality of emotions that are evaluated in a differentiated manner, accepted as reality, and linked to the body. In paraenetic texts, emotions are often reduced to a single alternative. Great authorities urge one to avoid these emotions in future, whereas narratives tend to give the reader the opportunity to take oneâs distance from them. Different anthropological possibilities of perceiving and coping with reality correspond to the different genres.â©
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