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Reading with Feeling READING WITH FEELING Press SBL SEMEIA STUDIES Steed V. Davidson, General Editor Editorial Board: Eric D. Barreto L. Juliana M. Claassens Jin Young Choi Katie B. Edwards Jacqueline Hidalgo Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon Shively T. J. Smith Number 95 Press SBL READING WITH FEELING A ffect Theory and the Bible Edited by Fiona C. Black and Jennifer L. Koosed Press SBL Atlanta Copyright © 2019 by Society of Biblical Literature A ll rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by means of any information storage or retrieval system, except as may be expressly permit- ted by the 1976 Copyright Act or in writing from the publisher. Requests for permission should be addressed in writing to the Rights and Permissions Office, LSB Press, 825 Hous- ton Mill Road, Atlanta, GA 30329 USA. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Black, Fiona C., editor. | Koosed, Jennifer L., editor. Title: Reading with feeling : affect theory and the Bible / edited by Fiona C. Black and Jen- nifer L. Koosed. Description: Atlanta : SBL Press, 2019. | Series: Semeia studies; 95 | Includes bibliographi- cal references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019036261 (print) | LCCN 2019036262 (ebook) | ISBN 9781628372601 (paperback) | ISBN 9780884144168 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780884144175 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Bible—Criticism, interpretation, etc. | Emotions. Classification: LCC BS511.3 .R436 2019 (print) | LCC BS511.3 (ebook) | DDC 220.601/9— dc23 L C record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019036261 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019036262 Press Printed on acid-free paper. SBL Contents A bbreviations ...................................................................................................vii Introduction: Some Ways to Read with Feeling Fiona C. Black and Jennifer L. Koosed ....................................................1 Affect and Animality in 2 Samuel 12 Ken Stone ..................................................................................................13 Echoes of How: Archiving Trauma in Jewish Liturgy Jennifer L. Koosed ....................................................................................37 The Affective Potential of the Lament Psalms of the Individual Amy C. Cottrill .........................................................................................55 Public Suffering? Affect and the Lament Psalms as Forms of Private-Political Depression Fiona C. Black ...........................................................................................71 Prophecy and the Problem of Happiness: The Case of Jonah Rhiannon Graybill ....................................................................................95 The Disgusting Apostle and a Queer APressffect between Epistles and Audiences Joseph A. Marchal ..................................................................................113 “Not Grudgingly, nor under Compulsion”: Love, Labor, Service, and Slavery in Pauline Rhetoric Robert PaulSBL Seesengood ........................................................................141 vi Contents “Though We May Seem to Have Failed”: Paul and Failure in Steve Ross’s Blinded Jay Twomey .............................................................................................157 Responses Palpable Traumas, Tactile Texts, and the Powerful Reach of Scripture Erin Runions ...........................................................................................175 The Rage for Method and the Joy of Anachronism: When Biblical Scholars Do Affect Theory Stephen D. Moore ...................................................................................187 Contributors ...................................................................................................213 Ancient Sources Index ..................................................................................217 Modern Authors Index .................................................................................222 Press SBL A bbreviations ABRL Anchor Bible Reference Library BA Biblical Archaeologist BAR Biblical Archaeology Review BCT Bible and Critical Theory BibInt Biblical Interpretation BSac Biblioteca Sacra BZ Biblische Zeitschrift BBR Bulletin for Biblical Research CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly ECL Early Christianity and Its Literature HAR Hebrew Annual Review HTR Harvard Theological Review Int Interpretation JBL Journal of Biblical Literature JFSR Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion JSOT Journal for the Study of the Old Testament JSOTSup Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series JSP Journal for the Study of Pseudepigrapha LHBOTS Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies Neot Neotestamentica NICNT New International Commentary on the New Testament New Lit. Hist. New Literary History Press RBS Resources for Biblical Study SemeiaSt Semeia Studies SymS Symposium Series USQR Union Seminary Quarterly Review VT Vetus Testamentum WUNT Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testa- ment SBL-vii - Press SBL I ntroduction: Some Ways to Read with Feeling Fiona C. Black and Jennifer L. Koosed This volume appears as part of what might now be described as a small but determined trickle of affect-critical readings in biblical studies. To date, there have been a few edited collections, a good handful of articles, and a few monographs devoted to engagements of the biblical text with affect theory. Yet, for many in biblical studies, it may not be entirely clear what all the fuss is about. What is the cause of those packed American Academy of Religion sessions sponsored by the Religion, Affect, and Emotion unit? Why have there been the excited conversations in receptions and hallways during the Annual Meeting, to which Jennifer Koosed and Stephen Moore refer (Koosed and Moore 2014b, 382)? Or, why have scholars from all over the world descended upon Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where trickles have been turned into streams at the Capacious Conference, a meeting focused on a wide range of affect-inspired inquiries, hosted byM illersville Univer- sity? Affect-critical readings continue to grow in biblical studies, fed by the tributaries of other disciplines. Reading with Feeling seeks to provide an entry point to those who want to test the waters: What is affect theory, and how can it be used in biblical criticism? Affect theory is a critically informed analysis of emotions and bodily sensations, one that resists any neatly bifurcated analysis of emotions as either interior states or as social-political conditions. Instead, affect theory refuses both essentialism and the linguisticPress turn that dominated so much of scholarship in the late twentieth century. Different disciplines bring dif- ferent insights and emphases to affect theory, but religious studies has proven a particularly rich arena for the exploration of affects. Religions are not just sets of doctrine or theological tenets, intellectually affirmed. Reli- gions move people in their bodies, sometimes alongside but sometimes counter to rational thought. Bodies touch, feel, sense, come together, and SBL -1- 2 Fiona C. Black and Jennifer L. Koosed move apart as affects circulate. Affect theory gives us the conceptual tools to explore these movements, intensities, sensations. Teresa Brennan (2004, 1) begins her book The Transmission of Affect in this way: “Is there anyone who has not, at least once, walked into a room and ‘felt the atmosphere’?” In many ways, that is an ideal place to start: affects are tangible, palpable. They have shape, are transmissible, and leave traces. Brennan notes that affects are “material, physiological things,” often understood interchangeably with emotions (but not feelings).1 She adds, “affects have an energetic dimension. This is why they can enhance or deplete. They enhance when they are projected outward, when one is relieved of them.… Frequently, affects deplete when they are introjected, when one carries the affective burden of another” (6).G reg Seigworth and Melissa Gregg explain these material, energetic things as “forces or inten- sities.” They elaborate: “affect is found in those intensities that pass body to body (human, nonhuman, part-body and otherwise), in those resonances that circulate about, between, and sometimes stick to bodies and worlds, and in the very passages or variations between these intensities and res- onances themselves” (Seigworth and Gregg 2010, 1). Kathleen Stewart (2007, 3) further adds that affects are effectively viewed in the ordinary, the everyday, as “a kind of contact zone where the overdeterminations of circulations, events, conditions, technologies, and flows of power literally take place.” They are the “things that happen,” the “stuff that seemingly intimate lives are made of” (2). Finally, Sara Ahmed (2004, 4) wishes to draw our attention to how affects work to shape the surfaces of bodies (individual and collective), drawing the inevitable political consequences of such shaping to the fore. These introductory snippets from representative voices in the field of affect theory show how the scholarship that engages affect theory attempts to articulate lived experience, as well as to appreciate how this experience leaves traces in the world. So, for instance, when Ahmed studies affects such as fear (2004) or happiness (2010a; 2010b), she painstakingly recounts and reflects on the somatic responses Pressto and public interventions in such emotions. For example, fear lodges
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