Opening book details…
Can I read Disability in the Hebrew Bible : Interpreting Mental and Physical Differences on EtoBox?
Disability in the Hebrew Bible : Interpreting Mental and Physical Differences by Professor of Judaic Studies and Religious Studies Saul M Olyan; Saul M. Olyan is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Disability in the Hebrew Bible : Interpreting Mental and Physical Differences about?
Mental and physical disability, ubiquitous in texts of the Hebrew Bible, here receive a 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.
Who reads Disability in the Hebrew Bible : Interpreting Mental and Physical Differences?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Professor of Judaic Studies and Religious Studies Saul M Olyan; Saul M. Olyan
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780511407284
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Judaism, Religion
More by Professor of Judaic Studies and Religious Studies Saul M Olyan; Saul M. Olyan
Browse all works by Professor of Judaic Studies and Religious Studies Saul M Olyan; Saul M. Olyan
Similar books
- Disability Studies And the Hebrew Bible: Figuring Mephibosheth in the David Story (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies) — Jeremy Schipper (2006)
- Friendship in the Hebrew Bible (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library) — Saul M. Olyan (2017)
- Is There Theology in the Hebrew Bible? (Critical Studies in the Hebrew Bible) — Konrad Schmid (2015)
- The Victorian Freak Show : the Significance of Disability and Physical Differences in 19th-century Fiction — Craton, Lillian E., (2009)
- Imagined Worlds and Constructed Differences in the Hebrew Bible — Jeremiah W. Cataldo (2016)
- Biblical Corpora: Representations of Disability in Hebrew Biblical Literature (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 445) — Rebecca Raphael (2008)
