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Weighing hearts : character, judgment, and the ethics of reading the Bible

Issues involving ''character'' have been the object of increasing interest and debate in recent years. Social psychologists attempt to determine the role of character as a cause of human behavior, moral philosophers explore the significance of character for understanding ethics and virtue, and literary scholars investigate the depiction of character in narrative. Weighing Hearts represents the first serious attempt to integrate all these approaches in order to gain a deeper and more precise understanding of how readers evaluate characters in biblical narrative. While the primary focus is on th.

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  • "Issues involving ''character'' have been the object of increasing interest and debate in recent years. Social psychologists attempt to determine the role of character as a cause of human behavior, moral philosophers explore the significance of character for understanding ethics and virtue, and literary scholars investigate the depiction of character in narrative. Weighing Hearts represents the first serious attempt to integrate all these approaches in order to gain a deeper and more precise understanding of how readers evaluate characters in biblical narrative. While the primary focus is on th."@en
  • "Introduction : seeing with the eyes of evaluation -- Searching the innermost parts : consciousness, self, and mental space in ancient literature -- When should we psychologize? : evaluating character in redacted biblical texts -- Prophecy without personality : lionized prophets and the power of lying in 1 Kings 13 and 20 -- Prophecy, personality, and death : psychologizing Elijah -- Reassessing the character of condemned kings : new perspectives on Jeroboam and Jehoram -- Kings wicked and weak : the characterization of Ahab in comparative perspective -- The witnessing heart : self-evaluation in the stories of Job and King David -- Art thou the man? : judging King David and judging ourselves."
  • "Issues involving 'character' have been the object of increasing interest and debate in recent years. Social psychologists attempt to determine the role of character as a cause of human behavior, moral philosophers explore the significance of character for understanding ethics and virtue, and literary scholars investigate the depiction of character in narrative. Weighing Hearts represents the first serious attempt to integrate all these approaches in order to gain a deeper and more precise understanding of how readers evaluate characters in biblical narrative. While the primary focus is on the."@en

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