Saul M. Olyan

Disability in the Hebrew Bible

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is about mental and physical disability in the Hebrew Bible.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9780521888073
• ISBN-10: 0521888077
• Artikelnr.: 23542518

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Constructions of beauty and ugliness
2. Physical disabilities classified as 'defects'
3. Physical disabilities not classified as 'defects'
4. Mental disability
5. Disability in the prophetic Utopian vision
6. Non-somatic parallels to bodily wholeness and 'defect'
7. Exegetical perpetuations, elaborations and transformations: the case of Qumran
8. Conclusion.