Найти книгу: "Puzzling Portraits"

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.

Полный вариант заголовка: «Esprit de Mme de Genlis, ou Portraits, caracteres, maximes et pensees / extraits de tous ses ouvrages publ. jusqu'a ce jour par m. Demonceaux».

Полный вариант заголовка: «Philosophes des trois premiers siecles de l'eglise, ou Portraits historiques des philosophes payens : qui, ayant embrasse le christianisme, en sont devenus les defenseurs par leurs ecrits / par M. l'abbe Nonnotte».

Полный вариант заголовка: «Dictionnaire des portraits historiques, anecdotes, et traits remarquables des hommaes illustres. T. 1».

Полный вариант заголовка: «Dictionnaire des portraits historiques, anecdotes, et traits remarquables des hommaes illustres. T. 3».

Полный вариант заголовка: «Dictionnaire des portraits historiques, anecdotes, et traits remarquables des hommes illustres. Tome 2 / avec approbation & privilege du Roi».