Prominent Hellenistic moralists from ca. the first century CE warn
that all emotions carry temptation(s) to sin or error. To be guilty
of emotional sin is to allow psychosomatic feelings (or rising
emotion) free reign to trump godly (rational) guidance of
behavioral pursuits. Thus, morally minded Hellenists widely view
unemotional behavior as a sign of moral progress. Emotive language
peppers the Markan narrative, inviting moral assessments, yet
scholarship has seldom delved into a historical-literary analysis
of Jesus's emotional characterization. This study proposes a
working definition of emotion apropos the narratival nature of
Hellenistic emotion theory. It finds that Jesus consistently
vanquishes emotional temptations with "battle" techniques similar
to those championed by the moralists. Mark characterizes Jesus in
the moral tradition of the anti-emotional exemplar, and several
minor characters are liberated from destructive emotions through
the mercy of Jesus's godly rationale. By recognizing the Markan
Jesus as a model, this study outlines a method for persevering in
emotional testing that modern readers might also emulate to resist
temptation with divine help.
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