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Author Olyan, Saul M.

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

Imprint Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2008.

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Description xii, 188 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Bible. O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Dead Sea scrolls.
People with disabilities in the Bible.
People with disabilities in rabbinical literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780521888073 (hardback)
9780511408021 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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