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Understanding Abnormalities in Biblical Figures

Understanding Abnormalities in Biblical Figures

Baltes, Guido
Bormann, Lukas
Meiser, Martin

Paperback

Series: Studies in the Reception History of the Bible

JudaismBible Studies

ISBN10: 9521242434
ISBN13: 9789521242434
Publisher: Abo Akademi University
Published: Aug 15 2023
Pages: 388
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.86 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

In the Bible and its environment there are frequent references to the extraordinary states of mind of Biblical figures: Adam, Abraham, David, Deborah, Delilah, Samson, Saul and many others. Based on Hebrew anthropology, the texts of Second Temple Judaism and the New Testament reflect the question: How do human beings and the mind relate to one another? Influenced by the anthropology of the great philosophical schools of Platonism, Aristotelianism, and Stoicism, the idea that humankind is best understood anthropologically within the framework of a body-soul dichotomy or a body-soul-spirit/mind trichotomy was also gaining a foothold in Judaism. Church fathers predominantly assume that the biblical heroes integrated by God into the history of salvation are also models of morality, they are particularly challenged by the texts in which deviant behavior is described. The question thus also opens up an ethical dimension to the history of biblical reception.

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