Ruling the rûaḥ: Emotional Experience and Expression in Ancient Hebrew

• Authors: Joel Atwood

Abstracts

EN

Emotions are one of the most fascinating and difficult aspects of human experience, and have received significant attention in biblical studies. This paper explores how one Hebrew lexeme, rûaḥ, provides a point of entry into the complex world of how emotions are expressed in ancient texts. Drawing from some insights of Cognitive Linguistics, it examines the use of rûaḥ to express the experience of impatience and patience, and arrogance and humility. This paper then challenges a long-held but simplistic equation of rûaḥ with anger, and argues that a more nuanced and complex relationship exists between lexeme and emotion than most citations in scholarship suggest.

Keywords

EN

emotions; ruah; breath; anger; patience; arrogance; semantics; metaphor; cognitive-linguistics

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
• Journal: The Biblical Annals
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 333-352

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Joel Atwood

• Talua Theological Training Institute

• https://orcid.org/0000000280341053

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Identifiers

DOI

10.31743/biban.13554

Biblioteka Nauki

2089730