Role of Emotion in 1 Peter

Informationen zum Autor Katherine M. Hockey is the inaugural Kirby Laing Postdoctoral Fellow in New Testament Studies at the University of Aberdeen.  She is co-editor of Muted Voices of the New Testament: Readings in the Catholic Epistles and Hebrew (2017) and Ethnicity, Race, Religion: Identities and Ideologies in Early Jewish and Christian Texts, and in Modern Biblical Interpretation (2018). Zusammenfassung This book is for advanced undergraduates to academic specialists working in biblical and early Christian studies. It provides cutting-edge research on the argumentative function of emotions in the New Testament, notably the deployment of emotions to evaluate objects, construct a worldview, and shape self-understanding, goals, and behaviour. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Introductory Matters: 1. Emotion studies and the New Testament; 2. Emotion studies - theoretical foundations; Part II. Emotions in Antiquity: 3. Stoic philosophy of emotion; 4. The rhetorical use of emotion; Part III. The Present Experience: 5. Joy despite distress - 1 Peter 1.6-8; 6. Joy in suffering - 1 Peter 4.12-13; Part IV. Future Expectation: 7. Fearful hope; 8. Appropriate and inappropriate shame; 9. Conclusion; Appendix 1: chronology of the leading stoics.

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• Authors: Katherine M Hockey, Katherine M. Hockey, Hockey Katherine M., Hockey Katherine M. Hockey
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781108468138
• ISBN: 978-1-108-46813-8
• No. of pages: 311
• Series: Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series; Society for New Testament Stud
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History, Bibles, Christianity, Religion & beliefs, Humanities, Religion and beliefs, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / New Testament / General, New Testaments, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Biblical Commentaries