"In the Bible and its environment there are frequent references to the extraordinary states of mind of biblical figures: Adam, David, Deborah, Samson, Saul, and many others. Based on Hebrew anthropology, the texts of Second Temple Judiasm and the New Testament reflect the question: How do human beings and the mind relate to one another? Influenced by the anthropology of the great philosophical schools of Platonism, Aristotelianism, and Stoicsm, the idea that humankind is best understood anthropologically within the framework of a body-soul dichotomy or a body-soul-spirit/mind trichotomy was also gaining a foothold in Judaism. Church Fathers predominantly assume that the biblical heroes integrated by God into the history of salvation are also models of morality, but they are particularly challenged by the texts in which deviant behavior is described. The question thus also opens up an ethical dimension to the history of biblical reception."