Reading with Feeling

"The psychological approach known as affect theory focuses on bodily feelings-depression, happiness, disgust, love-and can illuminate both texts and their interpretations. In this collection of essays scholars break new ground in biblical interpretation by deploying a range of affect-theoretical approaches in their interpretations of texts. Contributors direct their attention to the political, social, and cultural formation of emotion and other precognitive forces as a corrective to more traditional historical-critical and linguistic interpretive methods, and response essays push the conversations into profitable directions for future research"--

Year

2019

Language

English

Publisher

Society of Biblical Literature

Editions

1

Pages

234

ISBN

9780884144175

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