Biblical corpora : representations of disability in Hebrew biblical literature /: representations of disability in Hebrew biblical literature. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Rebecca Raphael.
• Other Names: Raphael, Rebecca
• 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.
• Publisher Details: London New York : T & T Clark International
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 154 pages)
• Subjects: 221.8/305908; People with disabilities in the Bible; RELIGION -- Judaism -- Sacred Writings; RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament; People with disabilities in the Bible; Behinderung; Metapher; Bildersprache; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780567279897; 0567279898
• Related ISBNs: 9780567028020; 056702802X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-148) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.