into the salient features of situations and develop an ethic that is not based exclusively on general rules, but one that is responsive to concrete situations.30 These observations are pertinent to a reading of Old Testament narratives, which seldom contain explicit moral judgements, but much more often leave the events to speak for themselves, thereby encouraging the reader to reflect on and relate past events to him- or herself in the present. Where however there is a danger that the reader might
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