Joy Denied, Joy Rediscovered
From Classical Greek Literature to Byzantine ChristianityEBERHARD BONS, ANNA MAMBELLI, DANIELA SCIALABBA
Bologna Studies in Religious History
BRILL, Leiden, 2025
Digital € 112.32
Paper € 114.48
ISBN: 9789004540637
The number of studies on joy and other positive emotions in ancient Greek literature, in the Greek Bible, and early and Byzantine Christianity is relatively small. It gives the misleading impression that negative emotions were more important than positive ones in antiquity.
This book aims to fill a gap in current research on ancient emotions and to iniate and in-depth disussion on the topic of joy, its many undertones, its fragility, its concrete and metaphorical enemies, and its degree of legitimacy in different texts from classical Greek Literature to Byzantine Christianity.
Contributions by Antonella Bellantuono, Laura Bigoni, Eberhard Bons, Ralph Brucker, Antonio Cacciari, Laura Carnevale, Luigi d'Amelia, Dorota Hartman, Christoph Kugelmeier, Giulia Leonardi, Edmondo Lupieri, Louis Painchaud, Beatrice Perego, Pietro Rosa, Daniela Scialabba.
Eberhard Bons is professor emeritus on biblical studies at the university of Strasbourg, and affiliated researcher at FSCIRE.
He is co-editor of the Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint (Mohr Siebeck) and editor of the book series The Septuagint in its Ancient Context (Brepols).
Anna Mambelli is a biblical scholar, researcher and assistant professor of Ancient Christian Literature at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, and affiliated at FSCIRE.
Since 2021, she is co-editor of the Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint (Mohr Siebeck) and member of the editorial board of the series Septuagint and Cognate Studies (SBL).
Daniela Scialabba is associate professor at the Pontifical Biblical Institute of Rome and affiliated researcher at FSCIRE.
She is co-editor of the Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint (Mohr Siebeck) and member of the editorial board of the series Septuagint and Cognate Studies (SBL).