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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: T & T Clark library of biblical studies | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 445.Publication details: London ; New York : T & T Clark International, 2008.Description: x, 154 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780567028020 (hbk.)
  • 056702802X (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 221.8305908 22
LOC classification:
  • BS1199.A25 R37 2008
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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.
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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.