Towards a Blending-Based Approach to Early Christian Characters: Nicodemus as a Test Case.
This article presents a blending-based approach to characters in early Christian narratives. Even cognitive approaches to complex characters (including my previous work) tend to frame character development as a primarily linear unidirectional process. However, the human mind integrates incoming info...
| Publicado en: | Biblical Interpretation Vol. 29; no. 4/5; pp. 498 - 530 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2021
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