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1 - Emotional Resistance to Physical Power-Over

The Performative Power of the Public Spectacle in 4 Maccabees

from Part I - Jewish Emotional Resistance to Gentile Power-Over in the Greco-Roman Diaspora

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2021

Ari Mermelstein
Ari Mermelstein
Affiliation:
Yeshiva University, New York
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I begin my exploration of Jewish feelings as counter-discourse with 4 Maccabees, a book that recounts a contest of power. In this chapter, I focus on emotion as a vehicle for resistance to power, asserting that, in spite of the physical power-over exerted by others, the resister enjoys the power to act. Since emotions are bound up with power, they can be used to demonstrate an individual’s power to act in defiance of a counterpart’s power over them.

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Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism
Community and Identity in Formation
 , pp. 23 - 61
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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