Biblical Corpora Representations of

This book provides a literary critical method focused on representation in the canonical form of the text, that allows a comprehensive view of how images of disability operate in relation to major concepts, and also provides a foundation for studies in the history of interpretation. All discussion of biblical passages and books draw on existing historical studies as a necessary precondition for understanding.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction: Disability Studies Within Biblical Studies	p. 1
What is Disability Studies?	p. 5
Impairment and Disability in the Hebrew Bible and in Biblical Studies	p. 13
Method and Overview of the Project	p. 19
Coda	p. 26
Categories: Disability Contra the Holy and the Real	p. 29
Disability Contra What? The Construction of a Priestly Norm	p. 31
True Gods and Disabled Idols: Deuteronomic Bodily Polemics	p. 40
Disability as Categorical Alterity	p. 49
Figures: Disability as Aesthetic Device	p. 51
Narrative Prosthesis in Genesis	p. 53
Job and Aesthetic Transcendence	p. 81
Disability as Aesthetic Feature	p. 106
Rhetoric: The Sensory Structure of Divine-Human Communication	p. 108
Evoked Potential: The Disabled Body in the Psalms	p. 109
No Soundness in It: Disability as Media in Isaiah	p. 119
A Brief Excursus on Disability in Other Prophetic Books	p. 129
Disability as Communication Nexus	p. 130
Limping on Two Opinions: Disability as Constitutive Element and Critical Mode Introduction	p. 131
Disability, Power, Holiness, Election	p. 132
Interpretive Prosthesis	p. 137
Bibliography	p. 144
Index of References	p. 149
Index of Authors	p. 153
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Biblical Corpora Representations of Disability in Hebrew Biblical Literature

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