Brandon C. Benziger

Latest revision on August 17, 2015.

Recent research in philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience has demonstrated that emotions are not, as we once thought, irrational, animalistic impulses to be suppressed and ignored. Instead, emotions are rich, cognitive phenomena essential to human health and the moral life. Appropriating such insight in their own work, dozens of biblical scholars and theologians have shown a recent surge of interest in the topic. [1] This bibliography seeks to make the surprisingly large body of resultant literature accessible to a broader audience. It is intended not only to stimulate academic research in biblical studies and theology more generally, but also to aid preachers, teachers, counselors, and translators in their own work and ministry.

A few comments on the structure and inclusion of material are in order. It should be noted at the outset that this does not intend to be an exhaustive listing, but rather a selective and representative one, hopefully leading to further research. Accordingly, I have avoided citing older works, unpublished studies, dictionary entries, analyses that are only implicitly concerned with emotion, and works in languages other than English. Exceptions to this are sometimes included because they are important in their own right or otherwise the only works of their kind. The list is also selective in that it focuses, as has recent research, on human, rather than divine, emotions. Still, I have sought to be fairly comprehensive in coverage, canvassing a variety of topics, theological traditions, and critical approaches.

Also to be noted here is that the subheadings under “Theoretical Considerations” and “Bible Backgrounds” are intended to provide a theoretical and contextual backdrop for the study of emotions in the Bible and so are intentionally not as full as the sections on the Old and New Testaments. Certain disciplines, moreover, are collapsed under a single heading because they share obvious affinities and are often discussed together. Works explicitly dealing with both the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East are listed under “Ancient Near East,” not least because this category is poorly developed at present. And the three-fold Jewish division of the Hebrew Bible has been used for ease of categorization. Asterisks, lastly, mark some of the outstanding entries in each category.

Further lists of resources can be found in the footnotes, endnotes, and bibliographies of the works cited below, as well as in the excellent but now outdated collection by John Corrigan, Eric Crump, and John Kloos, Emotion and Religion: A Critical Assessment and Annotated Bibliography (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000).

[1] Scholarly societies have even devoted entire research groups to the matter. See, e.g., the Society of Biblical Literature’s Bible and Emotion Consultation (https://www.sbl-site.org/Meetings/Congresses_ProgramUnits.aspx?MeetingId=27, under “Bible and Emotion”), the American Academy of Religion’s Religion, Affect, and Emotion Group (https://papers.aarweb.org/content/religion-affect-and-emotion-group), and the European Association of Biblical Studies’ Emotions and the Biblical World Research Group (https://eabs.net/site/research-groups/general/emotions-and-the-biblical-world/ [all links accessed August 12, 2015]). Interested readers are invited to find a variety of relevant papers presented at past meetings, some of which are to be published in the near future, by accessing the links above.

The following categories are found below:

Theoretical Considerations
Bible Backgrounds
Old Testament and Israelite Religion
New Testament and Early Christianity

Theoretical Considerations

Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience

Aichhorn, Wolfgang, and Helmut Kronberger. “The Nature of Emotions: A Psychological Perspective.” In Emotions from Ben Sira to Paul, edited by Renate Egger-Wenzel and Jeremy Corley, 515–25. Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Yearbook 2011. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012.

Damasio, Antonio R. Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain. New York: Penguin Books, 1994.

Davidson, Richard J., Klaus R. Scherer, and H. Hill Goldsmith, eds. Handbook of Affective Sciences. Series in Affective Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Dixon, Thomas. From Passions to Emotions: The Creation of a Secular Psychological Category. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Elliott, Matthew A. “The Emotional Core of Love: The Centrality of Emotion in Christian Psychology and Ethics.” Journal of Psychology and Christianity 31, no. 2 (2012): 105–117.

Goldie, Peter, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Emotion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Gregg, Melissa, and Gregory J. Seigworth, eds. The Affect Theory Reader. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010.

Griffiths, Paul E. “Current Emotion Research in Philosophy.” Emotion Review 5, no. 2 (2013): 215–22.

Kagan, Jerome. What Is Emotion? History, Measures, and Meaning. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.

*Lewis, Michael, Jeannette M. Haviland-Jones, and Lisa Feldman Barrett, eds. Handbook of Emotions. 3rd ed. New York: Guildford, 2008.

*Nussbaum, Martha C. Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

*Roberts, Robert C. Emotions: An Essay in Aid of Moral Psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

———. Spiritual Emotions: A Psychology of Christian Virtues. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007.

Sander, David, and Klaus R. Scherer, eds. The Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Solomon, Robert C. The Passions: Emotions and the Meaning of Life. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1993.

Sociology and Religion

Clough, Patricia Ticineto, with Jean Halley, eds. The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007.

*Corrigan, John, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Emotion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

———, ed. Religion and Emotion: Approaches and Interpretations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Davies, Douglas J. Emotions, Identity, and Religion: Hope, Reciprocity, and Otherness. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Fuller, Robert C. “Spirituality in the Flesh: The Role of Discrete Emotions in Religious Life.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 75, no. 1 (2007): 25–51.

Hupka, Ralph B., Zbigniew Zaleski, Jürgen Otto, Lucy Reidl, Nadia V. Tarabrina. “Anger, Envy, Fear and Jealousy as Felt in the Body: A Five-Nation Study.” Cross-Cultural Research 30, no. 3 (1996): 243–64.

Johnson, Kathryn Ann. “The Social Construction of Emotions in the Bhagavad GÄ«tā: Locating Ethics in a Redacted Text.” Journal of Religious Ethics 35, no. 4 (2007): 655–79.

Lutz, Catherine A. Unnatural Emotions: Everyday Sentiments on a Micronesian Atoll and Their Challenge to Western Theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.

Properzi, Mauro. Mormonism and the Emotions: An Analysis of LDS Scriptural Texts. Lanham, MD: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press/Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.

*Riis, Ole, and Linda Woodhead. A Sociology of Religious Emotion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Roberts, Michelle Voss. Tastes of the Divine: Hindu and Christian Theologies of Emotion. Comparative Theology: Thinking across Traditions. New York: Fordham University Press, 2014.

Rosaldo, Michelle Z. “Toward an Anthropology of Self and Feeling.” In Culture Theory: Essays on Mind, Self, and Emotion, edited by Richard A. Shweder and Robert A. LeVine, 137–57. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Russell, James A. “Culture and the Categorization of Emotions.” Psychological Bulletin 110, no. 3 (1991): 426–50.

Stearns, Peter N. American Cool: Constructing a Twentieth-Century Emotional Style. History of Emotions Series. New York: New York University Press, 1994.

Wilson, Erika. Emotions and Spirituality in Religions and Spiritual Movements. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2012.

Theology and Ethics

Cartledge, Mark J. “Affective Theological Praxis: Understanding the Direct Object of Practical Theology.” International Journal of Practical Theology 8, no. 1 (2004): 34–52.

Castelo, Daniel. “Tarrying on the Lord: Affections, Virtues and Theological Ethics in Pentecostal Perspective.” Journal of Pentecostal Theology 13, no. 1 (2004): 31–56.

Cates, Diana Fritz. Aquinas on the Emotions: A Religious-Ethical Inquiry. Moral Traditions Series. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2009.

Clapper, Gregory S. John Wesley on Religious Affections: His Views on Experience and Emotion and Their Role in the Christian Life and Theology. Pietist and Wesleyan Studies 1. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1989.

Cochran, Elizabeth Agnew. “The Moral Significance of Religious Affections: A Reformed Perspective on Emotions and Moral Formation.” Studies in Christian Ethics 28, no. 2 (2015): 150–62.

Gilman, James E. Fidelity of Heart: An Ethic of Christian Virtue. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

*Lister, Rob. God Is Impassible and Impassioned: Toward a Theology of Divine Emotion. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2013.

Roberts, Robert C. “Emotions in the Christian Tradition.” In Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward N. Zalta, 1–24. Stanford, CA: Metaphysics Research Lab, 2011. https://leibniz.stanford.edu/friends/members/view/emotion-Christian-tradition/ (accessed July 28, 2015).

*———. Emotions in the Moral Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Shaw, Karen L. H. “Divine Heartbeats and Human Echoes: A Theology of Affectivity and Implications for Mission.” Evangelical Review of Theology 37, no. 3 (2013): 196–209.

Spezio, Michael L. “The Neuroscience of Emotion and Reasoning in Social Contexts: Implications for Moral Theology.” Modern Theology 27, no. 2 (2011): 339–56.

Tallon, Andrew. “Christianity.” In The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Emotion, edited by John Corrigan, 111–24. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Thompson, Robert. “Process Theology and Emotion: An Introductory Exploration.” Journal of Pastoral Theology 15, no. 1 (2005): 18–38.

*Vacek, Edward Collins. “Orthodoxy Requires Orthopathy: Emotions in Theology.” Horizons 40, no. 2 (2013): 218–41.

von Hildebrand, Dietrich. The Heart: An Analysis of Human and Divine Affectivity. 1965. Reprint, South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2007.

Linguistics and Hermeneutics

Allen, Ronald J. “Feeling and Form in Biblical Interpretation.” Encounter 43, no. 1 (1982): 99–107.

Baker, Robert O. “Pentecostal Bible Reading: Toward a Model of Reading for the Formation of Christian Affections.” In Pentecostal Hermeneutics: A Reader, edited by Lee Roy Martin, 95–108. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Reprint of “Pentecostal Bible Reading: Toward a Model of Reading for the Formation of Christian Affections.” Journal of Pentecostal Theology 3, no. 7 (1995): 34–48.

Caird, G. B. The Language and Imagery of the Bible. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997. S.vv. “Expressive” and “Feeling,” 25–32 and 48–49.

Cotterell, Peter, and Max Turner. Linguistics and Biblical Interpretation. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1989. S.v. “Affective Language,” 294–99.

Edgerton, W. Dow. The Passion of Interpretation. Literary Currents in Biblical Interpretation. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1992.

Foolen, Ad. “The Relevance of Emotion for Language and Linguistics.” In Moving Ourselves, Moving Others: Motion and Emotion in Intersubjectivity, Consciousness and Language, edited by Ad Foolen, Ulrike M. Lüdtke, Timothy P. Racine, and Jordan Zlatev, 347–68. Consciousness & Emotion Book Series 6. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2012.

Hintz, David J. “Psycho-semantic Analysis of Emotion and Translation.” Notes on Translation 106 (1985): 18–33.

King, Phil. “Metaphor and Methodology for Cross-Cultural Investigation of Hebrew Emotions.” Journal of Translation 8, no. 1 (2012): 9–24.

Koosed, Jennifer L., and Stephen D. Moore. “Introduction: From Affect to Exegesis.” Biblical Interpretation 22, no. 4–5 (2014): 381–87.

Levy, Gabriel. “A New Method for Analyzing Emotions in Jewish Texts.” In Judaism and Emotion: Texts, Performance, Experience, edited by Sarah Ross, Gabriel Levy, and Soham Al-Suadi, 153–61. Studies in Judaism 7. New York: Peter Lang, 2013.

*Majid, Asifa. “Current Emotion Research in the Language Sciences.” Emotion Review 4, no. 4 (2012): 432–43.

*Martin, Lee Roy. “Rhetorical Criticism and the Affective Dimension of the Biblical Text.” Journal for Semitics 23, no. 2 (2014): 339–53.

Osborne, Grant R. The Hermeneutical Spiral: A Comprehensive Introduction to Biblical Interpretation. Rev. ed. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2006. S.v. “Performative and Emotive Language,” 119–21.

*Schlimm, Matthew R. “Different Perspectives on Divine Pathos: An Examination of Hermeneutics in Biblical Theology.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 69, no. 4 (2007): 673–94.

Wilce, James M. Language and Emotion. Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language 25. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Bible Backgrounds

Ancient Near East

Foster, Benjamin R. “The Person in Mesopotamian Thought.” In The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture, edited by Karen Radner and Eleanor Robson, 117–39. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. S.v. “The inner, feeling person,” 122–24.

Fox, Michael V. “Love, Passion, and Perception in Israelite and Egyptian Love Poetry.” Journal of Biblical Literature 102, no. 2 (1983): 219–28.

Gruber, Mayer I. Aspects of Nonverbal Communication in the Ancient Near East. 2 vols. Rome: Biblical Institute, 1980.

———. “Fear, Anxiety and Reverence in Akkadian, Biblical Hebrew and Other North-west Semitic Languages.” Vetus Testamentum 40, no. 4 (1990): 411–22.

Kramer, S. N. “Love, Hate and Fear: Psychological Aspects of Sumerian Culture.” Eretz-Israel 5 (1958): 66–74.

*Larsen, M. T. “Affect and Emotion.” In Veenhof Anniversary Volume, Studies Presented to Klaas R. Veenhof on the Occasion of His Sixty-fifth Birthday, edited by W. H. van Soldt, 275–86. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 2001.

Muffs, Yochanan. “Love and Joy as Metaphors of Willingness and Spontaneity in Cuneiform, Ancient Hebrew, and Related Literatures: Part I, Divine Investitures in the Midrash in the Light of Neo-Babylonian Royal Grants.” In Love and Joy: Law, Language, and Religion in Ancient Israel, 121–38. New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1992. Reprint of “Joy and Love as Metaphorical Expressions of Willingness and Spontaneity in Cuneiform, Ancient Hebrew, and Related Literatures.” In Christianity, Judaism, and Other Greco-Roman Cults: Studies for Morton Smith at Sixty, edited by Jacob Neusner, 1–36. Leiden: Brill, 1975.

———. “Love and Joy as Metaphors of Volition in Hebrew and Related Literatures: Part II, The Joy of Giving.” In Love and Joy: Law, Language, and Religion in Ancient Israel, 121–38. New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1992. Reprint of “Love and Joy as Metaphors of Volition in Hebrew and Related Literatures: Part II, The Joy of Giving.” Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Studies 11 (1979): 91–111.

Snell, Daniel C. “Emotions, ancient Near East.” In The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, edited by Roger S. Bagnall, Kai Brodersen, Craige B. Champion, Andrew Erskine, and Sabine R. Heubner, 2390. Vol. 5. West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

Zwickel, Wolfgang. “The Iconography of Emotions in the Ancient Near East and in Ancient Egypt.” In Emotions from Ben Sira to Paul, edited by Renate Egger-Wenzel and Jeremy Corley, 1–26. Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Yearbook 2011. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012.

Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature

Anderson, Gary A. “Almsgiving as an Expression of Faith.” In Emotions from Ben Sira to Paul, edited by Renate Egger-Wenzel and Jeremy Corley, 121–32. Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Yearbook 2011. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012.

Corley, Jeremy. “Emotional Transformation in the Book of Baruch.” In Emotions from Ben Sira to Paul, edited by Renate Egger-Wenzel and Jeremy Corley, 225–51. Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Yearbook 2011. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012.

Di Lella, Alexander A., OFM. “The Expression of Emotion in the Book of Tobit.” In Emotions from Ben Sira to Paul, edited by Renate Egger-Wenzel and Jeremy Corley, 177–88. Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Yearbook 2011. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012.

Egger-Wenzel, Renate. “Judith’s Path from Grief to Joy – From Sackcloth to Festive Attire.” In Emotions from Ben Sira to Paul, edited by Renate Egger-Wenzel and Jeremy Corley, 189–223. Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Yearbook 2011. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012.

*Egger-Wenzel, Renate, and Jeremy Corley, eds. Emotions from Ben Sira to Paul. Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Yearbook 2011. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012.

Gregory, Bradley C. “Empathy in the Ethical Rhetoric of Ben Sira.” In Emotions from Ben Sira to Paul, edited by Renate Egger-Wenzel and Jeremy Corley, 103–20. Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Yearbook 2011. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012.

Harkins, A. K. “The Performative Reading of the Hodayot: The Arousal of Emotions and the Exegetical Generation of Texts.” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 21, no. 1 (2011): 55–71.

Kreinecker, Christina M. “Emotions in Documentary Papyri: Joy and Sorrow in Everyday Life.” In Emotions from Ben Sira to Paul, edited by Renate Egger-Wenzel and Jeremy Corley, 451–72. Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Yearbook 2011. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012.

Mermelstein, Ari. “Love and Hate at Qumran: The Social Construction of Sectarian Emotion.” Dead Sea Discoveries 20, no. 2 (2013): 237–63.

Weitzman, S. “Warring against Terror: The War Scroll and the Mobilization of Emotion.” Journal for the Study of Judaism 40, no. 2 (2009): 213–41.

Greco-Roman World

Braund, Susanna Morton, and Christopher Gill, eds. The Passions in Roman Thought and Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

*Fitzgerald, John T., ed. Passions and Moral Progress in Greco-Roman Thought. Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies. London: Routledge, 2008.

Graver, Margaret R. Stoicism and Emotions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Harris, William V. Restraining Rage: The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.

*Konstan, David. The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks: Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature. Robson Classical Lectures. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.

Knuuttila, Simo. Emotions in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Nussbaum, Martha C. The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics. Martin Classical Lectures. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.

Olbricht, Thomas. “Pathos as Proof in Greco-Roman Rhetoric.” In Paul and Pathos, edited by Thomas H. Olbricht and Jerry L. Sumney, 7–22. SBL Symposium Series 16. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001.

Poster, Carol. “The Affections of the Soul: Pathos, Protreptic, and Preaching in Hellenistic Thought.” In Paul and Pathos, edited by Thomas H. Olbricht and Jerry L. Sumney, 23–37. SBL Symposium Series 16. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001.

Sihvola, Juha, and Troels Engberg-Pedersen, eds. The Emotions in Hellenistic Philosophy. New Synthese Historical Library 46. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic, 1998.

Rabbinic Literature and Later Judaism

Biro, Tamas. “When Judaism Became Boring: The McCauley-Lawson Theory, Emotions and Judaism.” In Judaism and Emotion: Texts, Performance, Experience, edited by Sarah Ross, Gabriel Levy, and Soham Al-Suadi, 123–51. Studies in Judaism 7. New York: Peter Lang, 2013.

Fishbane, Michael. “Joy and Jewish Spirituality.” In The Exegetical Imagination: On Jewish Thought and Theology, 151–72. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.

*Gereboff, Joel. “Judaism.” In The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Emotion, edited by John Corrigan, 95–110. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Ivry, Alfred L. “Emotions.” In Encyclopaedia Judaica, edited by Fred Skolnik and Michael Berenbaum, 396–97. Vol. 6. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA/Keter, 2007.

Kiperwasser, Reuven. “Matters of the Heart: The Metamorphosis of the Monolithic in the Bible to the Fragmented in Rabbinic Thought.” In Judaism and Emotion: Texts, Performance, Experience, edited by Sarah Ross, Gabriel Levy, and Soham Al-Suadi, 43–59. Studies in Judaism 7. New York: Peter Lang, 2013.

Neusner, Jacob. Vanquished Nation, Broken Spirit: The Virtues of the Heart in Formative Judaism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Ross, Sarah. “General Introduction: Reflections on Judaism and Emotion.” In Judaism and Emotion: Texts, Performance, Experience, edited by Sarah Ross, Gabriel Levy, and Soham Al-Suadi, 1–13. Studies in Judaism 7. New York: Peter Lang, 2013.

*Ross, Sarah, Gabriel Levy, and Soham Al-Suadi, eds. Judaism and Emotion: Texts, Performance, Experience. Studies in Judaism 7. New York: Peter Lang, 2013.

Schimmel, Solomon. “Gratitude in Judaism.” In The Psychology of Gratitude, edited by Robert A. Emmons and Michael E. McCullough, 37–57. Series in Affective Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

———. “Some Educational Uses of Classical Jewish Texts in Exploring Emotion, Conflict, and Character.” Religious Education 92, no. 1 (1997): 24–37.

Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava. Happiness in Premodern Judaism: Virtue, Knowledge, and Well-Being. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2003.

Old Testament and Israelite Religion

General

Basson, Alec. “A Few Metaphorical Source Domains for Emotions in the Old Testament.” Scriptura 100 (2009): 121–28.

Davis, Ellen F. Getting Involved with God: Rediscovering the Old Testament. Cambridge, MA: Cowley, 2001.

*Kruger, Paul A. “On Emotions and the Expression of Emotions in the Old Testament: A Few Introductory Remarks.” Biblische Zeitschrift 48, no. 2 (2004): 213–28.

———. “The Face and Emotions in the Hebrew Bible.” Old Testament Essays 18, no. 3 (2005): 651–63.

———. “‘Nonverbal Communication’ in the Hebrew Bible: A Few Comments.” Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 24, no. 1 (1998): 141–64.

Mayer, John D. “Emotions over Time within a Religious Culture: A Lexical Analysis of the Old Testament.” Journal of Psychohistory 22, no. 2 (1994): 235–48.

Myhill, John. “What Is Universal and What Is Language-Specific in Emotion Words? Evidence from Biblical Hebrew.” Pragmatics & Cognition 5, no. 1 (1997): 79–129.

Schlimm, Matthew Richard. This Strange and Sacred Scripture: Wrestling with the Old Testament and Its Oddities. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2015. S.vv. “Drowning in Tears and Raging at God” and “Great and Terrible Is the Wrath of the Lord,” 160–79 and 180–97.

Smith, Mark S. “The Heart and Innards in Israelite Emotional Expressions: Notes from Anthropology and Psychobiology.” Journal of Biblical Literature 117, no. 3 (1998): 427–36.

Thomas, Angela. Anatomical Idiom and Emotional Expression: A Comparison of the Hebrew Bible and the Septuagint. Hebrew Bible Monographs 52. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2014.

Discrete Emotions

Ackerman, Susan. “The Personal Is Political: Covenantal and Affectionate Love (’āhÄ“b, ’ahăbâ) in the Hebrew Bible.” Vetus Testamentum 52, no. 4 (2002): 437–58.

*Anderson, Gary A. A Time to Mourn, A Time to Dance: The Expression of Grief and Joy in Israelite Religion. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991.

Baloian, Bruce Edward. Anger in the Old Testament. New York: Peter Lang, 1992.

King, Philip D. Surrounded by Bitterness: Image Schemas and Metaphors for Conceptualizing Distress in Classical Hebrew. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2012.

Kotzé, Zacharias. “A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to the Emotion of Anger in the Old Testament.” Hervormde Teologiese Studies 60, no. 3 (2004): 843–63.

———. “Metaphors and Metonymies for Anger in the Old Testament: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach.” Scriptura 88 (2005): 118–25.

Kruger, Paul A. “A Cognitive Interpretation of the Emotion of Anger in the Hebrew Bible.” Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 26, no. 1 (2000): 181–93.

———. “A Cognitive Interpretation of the Emotion of Fear in the Hebrew Bible.” Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 27, no. 2 (2001): 77–89.

———. “Depression in the Hebrew Bible: An Update.” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 64, no. 3 (2005): 187–92.

Mumford, David B. “Emotional Distress in the Hebrew Bible: Somatic or Psychological?” British Journal of Psychiatry 160, no. 1 (1992): 92–97.

Olyan, Saul M. Biblical Mourning: Ritual and Social Dimensions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Strawn, Brent A. “The Triumph of Life: Towards a Biblical Theology of Happiness.” In The Bible and the Pursuit of Happiness: What the Old and New Testaments Teach Us about the Good Life, edited by Brent A. Strawn, 287–322. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

*———, ed. The Bible and the Pursuit of Happiness: What the Old and New Testaments Teach Us about the Good Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Vardi, Ruti. “‘I’m Dying on You’: Constructions of Intensification in Hebrew Expression of Love/Desire/Adoration.” Review of Cognitive Linguistics 13, no. 1 (2015): 25–58.

Wolde, Ellen van. “Sentiments as Culturally Constructed Emotions: Anger and Love in the Hebrew Bible.” Biblical Interpretation 16, no. 1 (2008): 1–24.

Torah

Allbee, Richard A. “Asymmetrical Continuity of Love and Law between the Old and New Testaments: Explicating the Implicit Side of a Hermeneutical Bridge, Leviticus 19.11–18.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 31, no. 2 (2006): 147–66.

Arnold, Bill T. “The Love-Fear Antinomy in Deuteronomy 5­–11.” Vetus Testamentum 61, no. 4 (2011): 551–69.

Claassens, Juliana. “Just Emotions: Reading the Sarah and Hagar Narrative (Genesis 16, 21) through the Lens of Human Dignity.” Verbum et Ecclesia 34, no. 2 (2013): 1–6. https://www.ve.org.za/index.php/VE/article/viewFile/787/1206 (accessed August 11, 2015).

Dario, Galati, Miceli Renato, and Marco Tamietto. “Emotions and Feelings in the Bible: Analysis of the Pentateuch’s Affective Lexicon.” Social Science Information 46, no. 2 (2007): 355–76.

Fretheim, Terence E. “God, Creation, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” In The Bible and the Pursuit of Happiness: What the Old and New Testaments Teach Us about the Good Life, edited by Brent A. Strawn, 33–55. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Guyette, Fred. “Joseph’s Emotional Development.” Jewish Bible Quarterly 32, no. 3 (2004): 181–88.

*Kazen, Thomas. Emotions in Biblical Law: A Cognitive Science Approach. Hebrew Bible Monographs 36. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2011.

———. “Empathy and Ethics: Bodily Emotion as a Basis for Moral Admonition.” In Mind, Morality and Magic: Cognitive Science Approaches in Biblical Studies, edited by István Czachesz and Risto Uro, 212–33. Bristol, CT: Acumen, 2013.

Knust, Jennifer. “Who’s Afraid of Canaan’s Curse? Genesis 9:18–29 and the Challenge of Reparative Reading.” Biblical Interpretation 22, nos. 4–5 (2014): 388–413.

Koosed, Jennifer L. “Moses: The Face of Fear.” Biblical Interpretation 22, no. 4–5 (2014): 414–29.

Kotzé, Zacharias. “Conceptual Metaphors for Anger in the Biblical Hebrew Story of the Flood.” Journal for Semitics 14, no. 1 (2005): 149–64.

*Lapsley, Jacqueline E. “Feeling Our Way: Love for God in Deuteronomy.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 65, no. 3 (2003): 350–69.

MacDonald, Nathan. “Is There Happiness in the Torah?” In The Bible and the Pursuit of Happiness: What the Old and New Testaments Teach Us about the Good Life, edited by Brent A. Strawn, 57–73. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Schlimm, Matthew R. “Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics: Engaging Anger in Genesis.” In Bodies, Embodiment, and Theology of the Hebrew Bible, edited by Tamar Kamionkowski and Wonil Kim, 146–58. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 465. New York: T&T Clark, 2010.

*———. From Fratricide to Forgiveness: The Language and Ethics of Anger in Genesis. Siphrut: Literature and Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures 7. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2011.

Prophets

Carroll R., M. Daniel. “‘He Has Told You What Is Good’: Moral Formation in Micah.” In Character Ethics and the Old Testament: Moral Dimensions of Scripture, edited by M. Daniel Carroll R. and Jacqueline E. Lapsley, 103–18. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2007.

Clendenen, E. Ray. “A Passionate Prophet: Reading Emotions in the Book of Malachi.” Bulletin for Biblical Research 23, no. 2 (2013): 207–21.

Cottrill, Amy C. “A Reading of Ehud and Jael through the Lens of Affect Theory.” Biblical Interpretation 22, no. 4–5 (2014): 430–49.

Fretheim, Terence E. “Theological Reflections on the Wrath of God in the Old Testament.”

Horizons in Biblical Theology 24, no. 2 (2002): 1–26.

Heschel, Abraham J. “The Divine Pathos: The Basic Category of Prophetic Theology.” In Faith and Reason: Essays in Judaism, edited by Robert Gordis and Ruth B. Waxman, 33–39. New York: Ktav, 1973. Reprint of “The Divine Pathos: The Basic Category of Prophetic Theology.” Judaism 2, no. 1 (1953): 61–67.

Kruger, Paul A. “The Obscure Combination of hafm dbk in Isaiah 30:27: Another Description of Anger?” Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 26, no. 2 (2000): 155–62.

———. “The Psychology of Shame and Jeremiah 2:36–37.” Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 22, no. 2 (1996): 79–88.

Lapsley, Jacqueline E. “A Feeling for God: Emotions and Moral Formation in Ezekiel 24:15–27.” In Character Ethics and the Old Testament: Moral Dimensions of Scripture, edited by M. Daniel Carroll R. and Jacqueline E. Lapsley, 93–102. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2007.

———. “A Happy Blend: Isaiah’s Vision of Happiness (and Beyond).” In The Bible and the Pursuit of Happiness: What the Old and New Testaments Teach Us about the Good Life, edited by Brent A. Strawn, 75–94. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Leung Lai, Barbara M. “Hearing God’s Bitter Cries (Hosea 11:1–9): Reading, Emotive-Experiencing, Appropriation.” Horizons in Biblical Theology 26, no. 1 (2004): 24–49.

*———. Through the ‘I’-Window: The Inner Life of Characters in the Hebrew Bible. Hebrew Bible Monographs 35. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2011.

Moore, Rickie D. “‘And Also Much Cattle’: Prophetic Passions and the End of Jonah.” In The Spirit of the Old Testament, 101–13. Journal of Pentecostal Theology Supplement Series 35. Blandford Forum, UK: 2011. Reprint of “‘And Also Much Cattle’: Prophetic Passions and the End of Jonah.” Journal of Pentecostal Theology 5, no. 11 (1997): 35–48.

Runions, Erin. “From Disgust to Humor: Rahab’s Queer Affect.” In Bible Trouble: Queer Reading at the Boundaries of Biblical Scholarship, edited by Teresa J. Hornsby and Ken Stone, 45–74. Semeia Studies 67. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011. Reprint of “From Disgust to Humor: Rahab’s Queer Affect.” Postscripts 4, no. 1 (2008): 41–69.

Vang, Carsten. “God’s Love according to Hosea and Deuteronomy: A Prophetic

Reworking of a Deuteronomic Concept?” Tyndale Bulletin 62, no. 2 (2011): 173–94.

Zulick, Margaret D. “The Normative, the Proper, and the Sublime: Notes on the Use of Figure and Emotion in Prophetic Argument.” Argumentation 12, no. 4 (1998): 481–92.

Writings

Brown, William P. “Happiness and Its Discontents in the Psalms.” In The Bible and the Pursuit of Happiness: What the Old and New Testaments Teach Us about the Good Life, edited by Brent A. Strawn, 95–115. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

*———. Wisdom’s Wonder: Character, Creation, and Crisis in the Bible’s Wisdom Literature. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014.

Drodge, Edward N. “A Cognitive-Embodiment Approach to Emotioning and Rationality, Illustrated in the Story of Job.” International Journal for Psychology and Religion 10, no. 3 (2000): 187–99.

Endres, John C. “The Spiritual Vision of Chronicles: Wholehearted, Joy-filled Worship of God.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 69, no. 1 (2007): 1–21.

Johnston, Gordon H. “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gallows! Irony, Humor, and Other Literary Features of the Book of Esther.” In Giving the Sense: Understanding and Using Old Testament Historical Texts, edited by David M. Howard Jr. and Michael A. Grisanti, 380–406. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2003.

Kruger, Paul A. “Job 18:11b: A Conceptualisation of the Emotion of Fear?” Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 28, no. 2 (2002): 143–49.

Leung Lai, Barbara M. “‘I’-Voice, Emotion, and Selfhood in Nehemiah.” Old Testament Essays 28, no. 1 (2015): 154–67.

Martin, Lee Roy. “Delighting in the Torah: The Affective Dimension of Psalm 1.” Old Testament Essays 23, no. 3 (2010): 708–27.

———. “‘Oh give thanks to the Lord for he is good’: Affective Hermeneutics, Psalm 107, and Pentecostal Spirituality.” Pneuma 36, no. 3 (2014): 1–24.

———. “Psalm 63 and Pentecostal Spirituality: An Exercise in Affective Hermeneutics.” In Pentecostal Hermeneutics: A Reader, edited by Lee Roy Martin, 263–84. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Reprint of “Longing for God: Psalm 63 and Pentecostal Spirituality.” Journal of Pentecostal Theology 22, no. 1 (2013): 54–76.

Newsom, Carol A. “Positive Psychology and Ancient Israelite Wisdom.” In The Bible and the Pursuit of Happiness: What the Old and New Testaments Teach Us about the Good Life, edited by Brent A. Strawn, 117–35. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Stewart, Anne W. Poetic Ethics in Proverbs: Wisdom Literature and the Shaping of the Moral Self. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

*Van Grol, Harm. “Emotions in the Psalms.” In Emotions from Ben Sira to Paul, edited by Renate Egger-Wenzel and Jeremy Corley, 69–102. Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Yearbook 2011. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012.

*Yoder, Christine Roy. “The Objects of Our Affections: Emotions and the Moral Life in Proverbs 1–9.” In Shaking Heaven and Earth: Essays in Honor of Walter Brueggemann and Charles B. Cousar, edited by Christine Roy Yoder, Kathleen M. O’Connor, E. Elizabeth Johnson, and Stanley P. Saunders, 73–88. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2005.

———. “The Shaping of Erotic Desire in Proverbs 1–9.” In Saving Desire: The Seduction of Christian Theology, edited by F. LeRon Shults and Jan-Olav Henriksen, 148–63. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011.

New Testament and Early Christianity

General

Barton, Stephen C. “‘Be Angry But Do Not Sin’ (Ephesians 4:26a): Sin and the Emotions in the New Testament with Special Reference to Anger.” Studies in Christian Ethics 28, no. 1 (2015): 21–34.

———. “Spirituality and the Emotions in Early Christianity: The Case of Joy.” In The Bible and Spirituality: Exploratory Essays in Reading Scripture Spiritually, edited by Andrew T. Lincoln, J. Gordon McConville, and Lloyd K. Pietersen, 171–93. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2013.

———. “Why Do Things Move People? The Jerusalem Temple as Emotional Repository.” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 37, no. 4 (2015): 351–80.

Burrus, Virginia. Saving Shame: Martyrs, Saints, and Other Abject Subjects. Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.

*Elliott, Matthew A. Faithful Feelings: Rethinking Emotion in the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Kregel Academic & Professional, 2006.

Kotrosits, Maia. Rethinking Early Christian Identity: Affect, Violence, and Belonging. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2015.

Morrice, William G. Joy in the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1984.

Morris, Leon. Testaments of Love: A Study of Love in the Bible. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1981.

*Strawn, Brent A., ed. The Bible and the Pursuit of Happiness: What the Old and New Testaments Teach Us about the Good Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Whissell, Cynthia. “Comparison of the Books of the New Testament (English Translation) in Terms of Emotion and Word Use.” Psychological Reports 98, no. 1 (2006): 57–64.

Gospels and Acts

Crocker, Cornelia Cyss. “Emotions as Loopholes for Answerability in the Unfinalized Gospel According to Mark.” Perspectives in Religious Studies 32, no. 3 (2005): 281–94.

Geyer, Douglas W. Fear, Anomaly, and Uncertainty in the Gospel of Mark. ATLA Monograph Series 47. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2001.

Green, Joel B. “‘We Had to Celebrate and Rejoice!’ Happiness in the Topsy-Turvy World of Luke-Acts.” In The Bible and the Pursuit of Happiness: What the Old and New Testaments Teach Us about the Good Life, edited by Brent A. Strawn, 169–85. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Hansen, G. Walter. “The Emotions of Jesus.” Christianity Today, February 3, 1997, 43–46.

Holladay, Carl R. “The Beatitudes: Happiness and the Kingdom of God.” In The Bible and the Pursuit of Happiness: What the Old and New Testaments Teach Us about the Good Life, edited by Brent A. Strawn, 141–67. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

*Kuhn, Karl Allen. The Heart of Biblical Narrative: Rediscovering Biblical Appeal to the Emotions. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2009.

Mellas, Andrew. “‘The Passions of His Flesh’: St. Cyril of Alexandria and the Emotions of the Logos.” Phronema 29, no. 1 (2014): 81–99.

Piper, John. Love Your Enemies: Jesus’ Love Command in the Synoptic Gospels and the Early Christian Paraenesis. 1979. Reprint, Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012.

Spencer, F. Scott. “Why Did the ‘Leper’ Get Under Jesus’ Skin? Emotion Theory and Angry Reaction in Mark 1:40–45.” Horizons in Biblical Theology 36, no. 2 (2014): 107–28.

Voorwinde, Stephen. Jesus’ Emotions in the Fourth Gospel: Human or Divine? Library of New Testament Studies 284. London: T&T Clark, 2005.

*———. Jesus’ Emotions in the Gospels. New York: T&T Clark, 2011.

Waller, Alexis G. “Violent Spectacles and Public Feelings: Trauma and Affect in the Gospel of Mark and the Thunder: Perfect Mind.” Biblical Interpretation 22, no. 4–5 (2014): 450–72.

Epistles

Al-Suadi, Soham. “Dining Social Alternatives: Paul’s Dealing with the Emotional Diversity of the Hellenistic Meal.” In Judaism and Emotion: Texts, Performance, Experience, edited by Sarah Ross, Gabriel Levy, and Soham Al-Suadi, 21–42. Studies in Judaism 7. New York: Peter Lang, 2013.

*Aune, David Charles. “Passions in the Pauline Epistles: The Current State of Research.” In Passions and Moral Progress in Greco-Roman Thought, edited by John T. Fitzgerald, 221–37. Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies. London: Routledge, 2008.

DiCicco, Mario M. Paul’s Use of Ethos, Pathos, and Logos in 2 Corinthians 10–13. Mellen Biblical Press Series 31. Lewiston, NY: Mellen Biblical, 1995.

Eriksson, Anders. “Fear of Eternal Damnation: Pathos Appeal in 1 Corinthians 15 and 16.” In Paul and Pathos, edited by Thomas H. Olbricht and Jerry L. Sumney, 115–26. SBL Symposium Series 16. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001.

Fredrickson, David E. “‘Through Many Tears’ (2 Cor 2:4): Paul’s Grieving Letter and the Occasion of 2 Corinthians 1–7.” In Paul and Pathos, edited by Thomas H. Olbricht and Jerry L. Sumney, 161–79. SBL Symposium Series 16. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001.

Gorman, Heather. “Persuading through Pathos: Appeals to the Emotions in Hebrews.” Restoration Quarterly 54, no. 2 (2012): 77–90.

Keck, Leander E. “Pathos in Romans? Mostly Preliminary Remarks.” In Paul and Pathos, edited by Thomas H. Olbricht and Jerry L. Sumney, 71–96. SBL Symposium Series 16. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001.

Kotrosits, Maia. “The Rhetoric of Intimate Spaces: Affect and Performance in the Corinthian Correspondence.” Union Seminary Quarterly Review 62, nos. 3–4 (2011): 134–51.

Kraftchick, Steven J. “Pa,qh in Paul: The Emotional Logic of ‘Original Argument.’” In Paul and Pathos, edited by Thomas H. Olbricht and Jerry L. Sumney, 39–68. SBL Symposium Series 16. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001.

Lampe, Peter. “Affects and Emotions in the Rhetoric of Paul’s Letter to Philemon: A Rhetorical-Psychological Interpretation.” In Philemon in Perspective: Interpreting a Pauline Letter, edited by Francois Tolmie, 61–77. Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche 169. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010.

Martin, Troy W. “The Voice of Emotion: Paul’s Pathetic Persuasion (Gal 4:12–20).” In Paul and Pathos, edited by Thomas H. Olbricht and Jerry L. Sumney, 181–202. SBL Symposium Series 16. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001.

*Olbricht, Thomas H., and Jerry L. Sumney, eds. Paul and Pathos. SBL Symposium Series 16. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001.

Shantz, Colleen. “‘I Have Learned to Be Content’: Happiness according to St. Paul.” In The Bible and the Pursuit of Happiness: What the Old and New Testaments Teach Us about the Good Life, edited by Brent A. Strawn, 187–201. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Sumney, Jerry L. “Paul’s Use of Pa,qoj in His Argument against the Opponents of 2 Corinthians.” In Paul and Pathos, edited by Thomas H. Olbricht and Jerry L. Sumney, 147–60. SBL Symposium Series 16. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001.

Thompson, James W. “Paul’s Argument from Pathos in 2 Corinthians.” In Paul and Pathos, edited by Thomas H. Olbricht and Jerry L. Sumney, 127–45. SBL Symposium Series 16. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001.

Revelation, Eschatology, and Apocalyptic Literature

*Barton, Stephen C. “Eschatology and the Emotions in Early Christianity.” Journal of Biblical Literature 130, no. 3 (2011): 571–91.

Carey, Greg. “Finding Happiness in Apocalyptic Literature.” In The Bible and the Pursuit of Happiness: What the Old and New Testaments Teach Us about the Good Life, edited by Brent A. Strawn, 203–24. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Decock, Paul B. “Hostility against the Wealth of Babylon: Revelation 17:1—19:10.” In Animosity, the Bible, and Us: Some European, North American, and South African Perspectives, edited by John T. Fitzgerald, Fika J. van Rensburg, and Herrie F. van Rooy, 263–86. SBL Global Perspectives on Biblical Scholarship 12. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009.

*deSilva, David A. Seeing Things John’s Way: The Rhetoric of the Book of Revelation. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2009.

———. “The Strategic Arousal of Emotion in John’s Visions of Roman Imperialism: A Rhetorical-Critical Investigation of Revelation 4–22.” Neotestamentica 42, no. 1 (2008): 1–34.

———. “The Strategic Arousal of Emotions in the Apocalypse of John: A Rhetorical-Critical Investigation of the Oracles to the Seven Churches.” New Testament Studies 54, no. 1 (2008): 90–114.

Harker, Andrew. “The Affective Directives of the Book of Revelation.” Tyndale Bulletin 63, no. 1 (2012): 115–30.

Johnson, Curtis. “The Earth’s Ethos, Logos, and Pathos: An Ecological Reading of Revelation.” Currents in Theology and Mission 41, no. 2 (2014): 119–27.

Kotrosits, Maia. “Seeing Is Feeling: Revelation’s Enthroned Lamb and Ancient Visual Affects.” Biblical Interpretation 22, no. 4–5 (2014): 473–502.

Moore, Stephen D. “Retching on Rome: Vomitous Loathing and Visceral Disgust in Affect Theory and the Apocalypse of John.” Biblical Interpretation 22, no. 4–5 (2014): 503–28.