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Disability in the Hebrew Bible

Interpreting Mental and Physical Differences

  • Hardback
  • 200 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 16.2 x 22.8 x 1.9 cm

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For scholars and students of biblical studies

Analyzes biblical views on mental and physical differences

You will gain a deeper understanding of biblical context

This insightful book examines disability in the Hebrew Bible.

Mental and physical disability, ubiquitous in texts of the Hebrew Bible, here receive their first thorough treatment. Olyan seeks to reconstruct the Hebrew Bible's particular ideas of what is disabling and their potential social ramifications. Biblical representations of disability and biblical classification schemas - both explicit and implicit - are compared to those of the Hebrew Bible's larger ancient West Asian cultural context, and to those of the later Jewish biblical interpreters who produced the Dead Sea Scrolls. This study will help the reader gain a deeper and more subtle understanding of the ways in which biblical writers constructed hierarchically significant difference and privileged certain groups (e.g. persons with 'whole' bodies) over others (e.g. persons with physical 'defects'). It also explores how ancient interpreters of the Hebrew Bible such as the Qumran sectarians reproduced and reconfigured earlier biblical notions of disability and earlier classification models for their own contexts and ends.
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  • Title

    Disability in the Hebrew Bible

  • Author

    Saul M. Olyan

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    May 2008

  • Weight

    395g

  • Page Count

    200

  • Dimensions

    16.2 x 22.8 x 1.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521888073

  • ISBN-10

    0521888077

  • Eden Code

    1151754

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