Reading with Feeling : Affect Theory and the Bible.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (235 pages)
- Semeia Studies ; v.95 .
- Semeia Studies .
Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Affect and Animality in 2 Samuel 12 -- Echoes of How -- The Affective Potential of the Lament Psalms of the Individual -- Public Suffering? -- Prophecy and the Problem of Happiness -- The Disgusting Apostle and a Queer Affect -- "Not Grudgingly, nor under Compulsion" -- "Though We May Seem to Have Failed" -- Responses -- Palpable Traumas, Tactile Texts, and the Powerful Reach of Scripture -- The Rage for Method and the Joy of Anachronism -- Contributors -- Ancient Sources Index -- Modern Authors Index.