Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9780567162540
0567162540
1283270889
9781283270885
0567027821
9780567027825
9780567337511
0567337510
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-147) and indexes.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | This unique interdisciplinary book uses a fresh approach to explore issues of disability in the Hebrew Bible. It examines how disability functions in the David Story (1 Samuel 16; 1 Kings 2) by paying special attention to Mephibosheth, the only biblical character with a disability as a sustained character trait. The David Story contains some of the Bible's most striking images of disability. Nonetheless, interpreters tend to focus on legal material rather than narratives when studying disability in the Hebrew Bible. Often, they neglect the David Story's complex use of disability. They overlook its use of disability imagery as open to critical interpretation because its stereotypical meanings may seem so commonplace and transparent. Yet recent work in the burgeoning field of disability studies presents disability as a complicated motif that demands more critical engagement than it typically receives. Informed by exciting developments in the field, it argues that the David Story employs disability imagery as a subtle mode of narrating and organizing various ideological positions regarding national identity.
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| Other form: | Print version: Schipper, Jeremy. Disability studies and the Hebrew Bible. New York : T & T Clark, ©2006 0567027821
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