Title Biblical corpora : representations of disability in Hebrew biblical literature / Rebecca Raphael

Published London ; New York : T & T Clark International, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 154 pages) Series Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 445 T & T Clark library of biblical studies Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 445. T & T Clark library of biblical studies. Contents Introduction: Disability studies within biblical studies -- What is disability studies? -- Impairment and disability in the Hebrew Bible and in biblical studies -- Method and overview of the project -- Categories : disability contra the holy and the real -- Disability contra what : the construction of a priestly norm -- True gods and disabled idols : deuteronomic bodily polemics -- Disability as categorical alterity -- Figures : disability as aesthetic device -- Narrative prosthesis in Genesis -- Job and aesthetic transcendence -- Disability as aesthetic feature -- Rhetoric : the sensory structure of divine-human communication -- Evoked potential : the disabled body in the Psalms -- No soundness in it : disability as media in Isaiah -- A brief excursus on disability in other prophetic books -- Disability as communication nexus -- Limping on two opinions : disability as constitutive element and critical mode -- Disability, power, holiness, election -- Interpretive prosthesis Summary The book is organized by genre of biblical literature. First, the priestly literature articulates a binary concept of disability as impure and passive, i.e. as ''other'' to the pure, holy, and active. By contrast, in the prophetic literature and the Psalms, images of disability structure communication among God, prophets, leaders, and people. Here, disability does not simply mean impurity; its valuation depends on its possessor. Wisdom literature and narrative present figures (e.g. Job, Mephibosheth) whose innate or acquired disabilities are nevertheless placed, and not simply as impurities, w Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-148) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL SUBJECT Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc Bible. Old Testament fast Bibel Altes Testament gnd Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. nli Subject People with disabilities in the Bible. RELIGION -- Judaism -- Sacred Writings. RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament. People with disabilities in the Bible Behinderung Metapher Bildersprache People with disabilities in the Bible. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780567279897 0567279898 1283195682 9781283195683 9786613195685 6613195685

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