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Sensing the Unknowable: Sensing Revelation, Relationship, and Response in Psalm 139
- Author(s):
- Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies (view group) , Kirsty L. Jones
- Date:
- 2022
- Group(s):
- Biblical Studies, Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies
- Subject(s):
- Senses and sensation, Bible. Psalms, Bible. Old Testament
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- embodied experience
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/xrhy-c178
- Abstract:
- Psalms write and express revelation, relationship, and response on and through the body; corporeal vocabulary, awareness of embodiment and somatic metaphors abound. This rhetoric draws people in through reference to common experience and uses somatic language to express thoughts and emotions which often escape conceptualisation, such as confusion, fear, and protection. Psalm 139 uses sensory language to stress how the Psalmist cannot escape God’s knowledge and power, and states that understanding God’s power is beyond humans. Movement, pressure, and touch highlight presence and protection, and sensory awareness establishes a relationship between the protector and protected. I consider translations of tesukeni and yeshupeni and sensory metaphors, closing with a treatment of sensory awareness and cognitive understanding within the Psalm.
- Notes:
- K.L. Jones, "Sensing the Unknowable: Sensing Revelation, Relationship, and Response in Psalm 139." Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies 4.1 (2022): 83-98.
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- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 1 year ago
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