Download or read book The Spirit Within Me written by Carol A. Newsom and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The self in Israelite culture: a preliminary overview -- Agency in Biblical narrative -- Moral agency in Israelite perspective: three case studies -- Sin-consciousness, self-alienation, and the construction of interiority -- Rational agency and the birth of the human: Genesis 2-3 and its early interpretation -- The Hodayot of the Maskil and the subjectivity of the masochistic sublime -- Conclusion.