Disability in the Hebrew Bible: Interpreting Mental and Physical Differences

by Saul M. Olyan

Book Overview

Mental and physical disability, ubiquitous in texts of the Hebrew Bible, here receive a thorough treatment. Olyan seeks to reconstruct the Hebrew Bible's particular ideas of what is disabling and their potential social ramifications. Biblical representations of disability and biblical classification schemas - both explicit and implicit - are compared to those of the Hebrew Bible's larger ancient West Asian cultural context, and to those of the later...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107404983
• ISBN13: 9781107404984
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"