In the Bible and its environment there are frequent references to the extraordinary states of mind of Biblical figures Adam Abraham David Deborah Delilah Samson Saul and many others. Based on Hebrew anthropology the texts of Second Temple Judaism 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 Stoicism the idea that humankind is best understood anthropologically within the framework of a bodysoul dichotomy or a bodysoulspiritmind 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 they are particularly challenged by the texts in which deviant behavior is described.