appearance that this is a grocery list by which we have to measure every character that we encounter in the stories of the Bible. Good readers pay attention to these things intuitively. If the list seems burdensome, I would offer the following summary principle as an adequate way of dealing with characterization in a story: View yourself as the observant traveling companion of the characters in a story (especially the protagonist) and simply get to know the characters as thoroughly as the details
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