Saul M. Olyan

Disability in the Hebrew Bible

Interpreting Mental and Physical Differences

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book seeks to reconstruct the Hebrew Bible's ideas of mental and physical disability and their social ramifications.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9781107404984
• ISBN-10: 1107404983
• Artikelnr.: 35891811

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.