Includes bibliographical references (p. [144]-148) and index.
Contents:
Interpretive prosthesis. What is disability studies? ; Impairment and disability in the Hebrew Bible and in biblical studies ; Method and overview of the project ; Coda -- Categories : disability contra the holy and the real. Disability contra what? : the construction of a priestly norm ; True gods and disabled idols : Deuteronomic bodily polemics ; Disability as categorical alterity -- Figures : disability as aesthetic device. Narrative prosthesis in Genesis ; Job and aesthetic transcendence ; Disability as aesthetic feature -- Rhetoric : the sensory structure of divine-human communication. Evoked potential : the disabled body in the Psalms ; No soundness in it : disability as media in Isaiah ; A brief excursus on disability in other prophetic books ; Disability as communication nexus -- Limping on two opinions : disability as constitutive element and critical mode. Disability, power, holiness, election ; Interpretive prosthesis.
Series:
Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 445 T & T Clark library of biblical studies
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