Disability in the Hebrew Bible
Subtitle: interpreting mental and physical differences
By: Saul M. Olyan.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780521888073
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Dead Sea scrolls.; People with disabilities in the Bible.; People with disabilities in rabbinical literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-170) and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 : Constructions of beauty and ugliness; title: Chapter 2 : Physical disabilities classified as "defects"; title: Chapter 3 : Physical disabilities not classified as "defects"; title: Chapter 4 : Mental disability; title: Chapter 5 : Disability in the prophetic utopian vision; title: Chapter 6 : Non-somatic parallels to bodily wholeness and "defect"; title: Chapter 7 : Exegetical perpetuations, elaborations and transformations : the case of Qumran   "defects" in the Dead Sea scrolls.