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Culp, A.J.

 
9781610975889: Puzzling Portraits: Seeing the Old Testament's Confusing Characters as Ethical Models
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ISBN 10: 161097588X ISBN 13: 9781610975889
Editorial: Wipf and Stock, 2013

Sinopsis

How are we to see the Old Testament's characters--typically a tangle of both virtue and vice--as models for our own ethical living? It is clear that Scripture intends for us to embody some qualities while eschewing others, and at times these are immediately obvious: David's wholehearted pursuit of God is admirable, while his adultery with Bathsheba and murder of Uriah are deplorable. But more often than not we are left with shades of gray, not really knowing whether the narrator approves, disapproves, or is indifferent to the behavior of these characters.The present work seeks to address this issue, situating itself at the fault line of the problem: character portrayal. It argues that often what we take to be the narrator's silence about a character is not silence at all; rather, the narrator is simply speaking in ways that we are not attuned to. By becoming attuned to the voice of biblical narrative and by understanding its role in ethics, therefore, we are better able to understand the characters as resources for our own ethics. This work develops its ideas by leveraging pertinent literary and ethical models, which are then trained upon a particular case in point: the Gideon account in Judges 6-8.

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A.J. Culp is Assistant Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Yellowstone Theological Institute.

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Editorial
Wipf and Stock
Año de publicación
2013
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
161097588X
ISBN 13 
9781610975889
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
146
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