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Disability in the Hebrew Bible

Disability in the Hebrew Bible

Olyan, Saul M.

Hardcover

Bible Studies

ISBN10: 0521888077
ISBN13: 9780521888073
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: May 26 2008
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.71 Width: 8.95 Depth: 6.37
Language: English
Mental and physical disability, ubiquitous in texts of the Hebrew Bible, receive their first thoroughgoing treatment in this monograph. 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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