: representations of disability in Hebrew biblical literature
First Statement of Responsibility
\ Rebecca Raphael
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
; New York
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: T & T Clark International
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2008
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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x, 154 p.
Dimensions
;24 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
The library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies
Volume Designation
; 445
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Index
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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.