Idle musings by a once again bookseller, always bibliophile, current copyeditor and proofreader. Complete with ramblings about biblical studies, the ancient Near East, bicycling, gardening, or anything else I am reading (or experiencing). All more or less live from Red Wing, MN
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Jealousy and anger
“The statistical evidence linking jealousy with anger in the Hebrew Bible is remarkable. Of the 70 verses in which קנא ,קנאה or קנוא [qn'h, qn', qnw'] appears in the Hebrew Bible, 23 contain a word for anger. Thus, in approximately one-third of the appearances of קנא and its cognates in the Hebrew Bible, anger is also explicitly mentioned. As a point of reference, consider צדקה/צדיק/צדק [tsdq, tsdyq, tsdqh] (‘righteous[ness]’) and מׁשפט [mshpt] (‘justice’), which many interpreters have recognized as being closely related to one another. The Hebrew Bible links קנא ,קנאה and קנוא [qn'h, qn', qnw'] with terms for anger with greater frequency (33% of the time) than it links דקה/צדיק/צדק [tsdq, tsdyq, tsdqh] with מׁשפט [mshpat] (twenty-one percent of the time). In fact, words from the root קנא [qn'] are approximately 15 times more likely to appear in a verse that refers to anger than in a verse from the Hebrew Bible as a whole.”— From Fratricide to Forgiveness: The Language and Ethics of Anger in Genesis , page 65
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