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Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism - Community and Identity in Formation (Hardcover)
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Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism - Community and Identity in Formation (Hardcover)
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In this book, Ari Mermelstein examines the mutually-reinforcing
relationship between power and emotion in ancient Judaism. Ancient
Jewish writers in both Palestine and the diaspora contended that
Jewish identity entails not simply allegiance to God and
performance of the commandments but also the acquisition of
specific emotional norms. These rules regarding feeling were both
shaped by and responses to networks of power - God, the foreign
empire, and other groups of Jews - which threatened Jews' sense of
agency. According to these writers, emotional communities that felt
Jewish would succeed in neutralizing the power wielded over them by
others and, depending on the circumstances, restore their power to
acculturate, maintain their Jewish identity, and achieve
redemption. An important contribution to the history of emotions,
this book argues that power relations are the basis for historical
changes in emotion discourse.
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