Biblical corpora :

Raphael, Rebecca.

Biblical corpora : representations of disability in Hebrew biblical literature / Rebecca Raphael. - London ; New York : T & T Clark International, 2008. - x, 154 p. ; 24 cm. - T & T Clark Library of Biblical Studies Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 445 . - T & T Clark library of biblical studies. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 445. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [144]-148) and index.

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.

9780567028020 (hbk.) 056702802X (hbk.)

2008044174


Bible.--Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.


People with disabilities in the Bible.

BS1199.A25 / R37 2008

221.8305908