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1 online resource (x, 154 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 445
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T & T Clark library of biblical studies
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Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 445.
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T & T Clark library of biblical studies.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-148) and index. |
| 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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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Summary |
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 structure communication among God, prophets, leaders, and people. Here, disability does not simply mean impurity; its valuation depends on its possessor. Wisdom literature and narrative present figures (e.g. Job, Mephibosheth) whose innate or acquired disabilities are nevertheless placed, and not simply as impurities, w. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Bible. Old Testament. |
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Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
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Bible. Old Testament. |
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Altes Testament. |
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People with disabilities in the Bible.
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People with disabilities in the Bible. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Raphael, Rebecca. Biblical corpora. London ; New York : T & T Clark International, 2008 9780567028020 (DLC) 2008044174 (OCoLC)173718777 |
| ISBN |
9780567279897 (electronic book) |
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0567279898 (electronic book) |
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9780567028020 |
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056702802X |
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