The article explores the emotional dimension of Abraham’s character in the Qumran text 1QapGen and shows how the apocryphon, in contrast to the canonical Genesis, constructs an “emotionalized” image of the patriarch. Through philological and theological analysis of central motifs—especially weeping (בכי) and love (רחם)—the study demonstrates that emotions in 1QapGen are not literary embellishments but a hermeneutical key to understandingAbraham’s faith and divine revelation. In 1QapGen, Abraham is not portrayed as an emotionless ideal but as a human being who believes through tears, pra-yer, and inner devotion. In dialogue with the Gospel of Mark, the discussionalso addresses the motif of fear as an emotional space of revelation, in which the human being, in trembling and vulnerability, enters the nearness of God. The author concludes that the apocryphon broadens the theological horizon of Genesis, as divine presence is revealed within the sphere of human emotional experience. In this way, 1QapGen establishes what may be called a theology of emotions—an understanding of emotion as the locus where human vulnerability meets divine grace.
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