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SUMMARY:Project Presentation: “On Heart Metaphors and the Individualisat
 ion of 'Religion' in the Hebrew Bible (with a Special Focus on the Book of
  Jeremiah)”
DTSTART:20221017T123000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Presented by Nikita Artemov\, subproject B03\n\nAbstract\n\nTh
 e questions of individuality\, introspection\, and the opposition between 
 “porous” and “buffered” self (Ch. Taylor) have dominated the schol
 arly discussions on Old Testament anthropology in the last two decades. Si
 tuating itself within this discursive context\, the project B03 focalizes 
 the metaphors of self in the Hebrew Bible\, especially those associated wi
 th the “anthropological terms” (H.-W- Wolff) leb/lebab ‘heart’\, n
 ephesh ‘throat’\, ‘life(-force)’\, ‘soul’\, and ruach ‘spiri
 t’. The key Hebrew term related to moral agency and interiority is leb/l
 ebab ‘heart’\, functioning as the seat of cognition\, volition and emo
 tion and as the organ “guiding” human behaviour. Heart metaphors play 
 a major role in the Book of Jeremiah including a number of passages that a
 re central to the problem of increasing individualization and interiorizat
 ion of religion in post-exilic times. Taking as an example the metaphoric 
 expressions describing God as “the examiner of heart and kidneys” (Jer
  11:20\; 12:3\; 17:10\; 20:12)\, I will try to show how the modifications 
 of a (conceptual) metaphor may reflect tendencies shifting the focus away 
 from the nation towards the individual as the subject of moral agency and 
 choice in the religious discourse of early Judaism.  
LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/project-presentation-on-heart-metaphors
 -and-the-in/
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