This article aims to explore human emotions in selected texts of Joseph’s narrative through the lens of affect theory. Jacob’s gift of a famous coat to Joseph evokes in the brothers an intense emotion that involves a negative feeling toward him. The narrator’s articulations in Gen 37:3–11; 18–35; 42:21–25, 43:29–30; 44:18–34 and 45:1–5; 14–15 are emotionally persuasive and stimulate reader’s emotion. Judah’s utterance in 44 contains an inspiring flame of persuasive eloquence and affect accretion that accompanies mental feelings. This speech made Joseph emotionally charged and unable to control himself, cried out aloud and let loose his concealment before his brothers in Gen 45.
Damian O. Odo (Wed,) studied this question.