Character and Scripture <subTitle>Moral formation, community, and biblical interpretation</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Brown, William P.</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Editor</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">3:0</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.</publisher> <dateIssued>2002</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>440tr.</extent> <extent>Paperback, illustrations</extent> <extent>24 cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>Some books are great because they ask great questions. This is one of them. It asks, What is the relation between interpreting scriptures in communities of faith and the formation of moral character? It is also great because of the many fine answers offered in these excellent essays. This is a superior and highly coherent collection written by the best minds in Christian ethics and biblical studies. An important book for theological education, the church, and the academic fields of Bible and theological ethics.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">William P. Brown</note> <subject> <topic>Ethics in the Bible</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Exegesis</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Bible - AT - Criticism, interpretation, etc</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">220.6</classification> <classification authority="ddc">W716-B88</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780802846259, 0802846254</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/11988/35.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/11988/35.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2023-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071100.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>