Biblical corpora : representations of disability in Hebrew biblical literature / [print]
Rebecca Raphael.
- London ; New York : T and T Clark International, (c)2008.
- x, 154 pages ; 24 cm.
- 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. .
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.
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Bible.--Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.