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Author Schlimm, Matthew Richard.

Title From fratricide to forgiveness : the language and ethics of anger in Genesis / Matthew Richard Schlimm.

Publication Info. Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages).
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Series Siphrut, literature and theology of the Hebrew Scriptures ; v. 7
Siphrut ; v. 7.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Traversing foreign terrain : the troubles of translating emotion -- Imposing Western assumptions on the text : irrationality as senseless violence -- The Hebrew Bible's prototypical understanding of anger -- Biblical anger's associative networks -- Biblical anger and conceptual metaphor -- Advances in Old Testament ethics -- Ethics, emotion, and experience : the power of stories -- Ethics outside Eden : Cain and Abel -- A land of limitations : anger among shepherds -- Anger at the margins -- Attempting reconciliation : brothers at the end of Genesis -- Synthesis and conclusion : hope in a world of limitations -- Appendix A : the statistics of biblical language for anger -- Appendix B : Hebrew words for anger.
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Subject Bible. Genesis -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. Genesis.
Bible. Genesis -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. Genesis.
Anger in the Bible.
Anger in the Bible.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9781575062242 1575062240 (DLC) 2011034551
ISBN 1575066602 (electronic book)
9781575066608 (electronic book)
9781575062242 (hardback : alkaline paper)
1575062240 (hardback : alkaline paper)