Biblical corpora
Subtitle: representations of disability in Hebrew biblical literature
By: Rebecca Raphael.
Series: The library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies -- #445
Publisher: T & T Clark International
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780567028020
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; People with disabilities in the Bible
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [144]-148) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Disability studies within biblical studies; title: What is disability studies?; title: Impairment and disability in the Hebrew Bible and in biblical studies; title: Method and overview of the project; title: Categories : disability contra the holy and the real; title: Disability contra what : the construction of a priestly norm; title: True gods and disabled idols : deuteronomic bodily polemics; title: Disability as categorical alterity; title: Figures : disability as aesthetic device; title: Narrative prosthesis in Genesis; title: Job and aesthetic transcendence; title: Disability as aesthetic feature; title: Rhetoric : the sensory structure of divine-human communication; title: Evoked potential : the disabled body in the Psalms; title: No soundness in it : disability as media in Isaiah; title: A brief excursus on disability in other prophetic books; title: Disability as communication nexus; title: Limping on two opinions : disability as constitutive element and critical mode; title: Disability, power, holiness, election; title: Interpretive prosthesis.