Olyan, Saul M.

Disability in the Hebrew Bible interpreting mental and physical differences / [electronic resource] : Saul M. Olyan. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2008. - xii, 188 p.

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.






Bible.--O.T.--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Dead Sea scrolls.


People with disabilities in the Bible.
People with disabilities in rabbinical literature.


Electronic books.

BS1199.A25 / O49 2008

221.8/3624