TY - BOOK ID - 136708712 TI - Weighing hearts PY - 2012 VL - 568 SN - 1283891859 0567426742 9780567426741 9780567430816 0567430812 PB - New York, NY T & T Clark International DB - UniCat KW - Ethics in the Bible. KW - Character. KW - Character in literature. KW - Bible. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136708712 AB - 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 ER -