Disability in the Hebrew Bible [electronic resource] : interpreting mental and physical differences / Saul M. Olyan.

By: Olyan, Saul MContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2008Description: xii, 188 pISBN: 9780511408021 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Bible. O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Dead Sea scrolls | People with disabilities in the Bible | People with disabilities in rabbinical literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 221.8/3624 LOC classification: BS1199.A25 | O49 2008Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Chapter 1 : Constructions of beauty and ugliness -- Chapter 2 : Physical disabilities classified as "defects" -- Chapter 3 : Physical disabilities not classified as "defects" -- Chapter 4 : Mental disability -- Chapter 5 : Disability in the prophetic utopian vision -- Chapter 6 : Non-somatic parallels to bodily wholeness and "defect" -- Chapter 7 : Exegetical perpetuations, elaborations and transformations : the case of Qumran "defects" in the Dead Sea scrolls.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Chapter 1 : Constructions of beauty and ugliness -- Chapter 2 : Physical disabilities classified as "defects" -- Chapter 3 : Physical disabilities not classified as "defects" -- Chapter 4 : Mental disability -- Chapter 5 : Disability in the prophetic utopian vision -- Chapter 6 : Non-somatic parallels to bodily wholeness and "defect" -- Chapter 7 : Exegetical perpetuations, elaborations and transformations : the case of Qumran "defects" in the Dead Sea scrolls.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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