Equipped Class: God, Emotions, and the Biblical World

The Bible presents God and humans as experiencing a range of emotions, love, anger, happiness, sadness, disgust, and regret. In this class we will look at what the study of emotions in the cultural world of the Bible helps us to understand about the biblical portrayal of God and humanity, as well as ourselves, as emotional beings.

Speaker Bio: Aubrey Buster is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College, wife to Jeff, and mother to Malcolm, Martin, and new baby to come in August! Her research focuses on the Psalms, Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah, Daniel, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. She is the author of Remembering the Story of Israel, and is currently working on commentaries on Daniel (co-authored with John H. Walton) and Ezra-Nehemiah.