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The Person in Biblical Theology

December with a question that continued to puzzle him after the fall semester had ended. The question stemmed from a distinction of personality described in Bruce Malina’s article, &dquo;Dealing with Biblical (Mediterranean) Characters: A Guide for U.S. Consumers&dquo; (BTB 19 [Fall, 1989], 127-41). The student was rereading the assigned article when the problem of modern personality suddenly confronted him. He asked: &dquo;Can a traditional dyadic person also be a modem individualist&dquo;? This is a keen concern for a person sharing in the Jewish heritage yet socialized in a world of individualism. A strange term like dyadic person may strike many students as esoteric, hence forgettable. But this life-long leamer, reading reference material that most students would let slide after the course had ended, was taken by the nagging challenge of how readers in one culture can find meaning in ancient traditions from another social system that views the human person in a notably different way. Thus, the student came to focus on a critical difference between the modern individualist and the traditional dyadic personality. The description of the dyadic personality that most struck the student was of dyadic persons as role-players acting out a role and script assigned by the group. By contrast, individualists are choice-makers, who maintain internal control over who they are and internal responsibility for what they choose. The dyadic person, for whom role and script-hence control-come from the group, derives awareness of the self from the group. This social world is anti-introspective because introspection leads dyadic persons away from the designated role and script.