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Biblical corpora : representations of disability in Hebrew biblical literature /

The book is organized by genre of biblical literature. First, the priestly literature articulates a binary concept of disability as impure and passive, i.e. as ''other'' to the pure, holy, and active. By contrast, in the prophetic literature and the Psalms, images of disability s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Raphael, Rebecca
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : T & T Clark International, 2008.
Colección:Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 445.
T & T Clark library of biblical studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.