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 Jewish biblical interpreters who produced the Dead Sea
Scrolls. This study will help the reader gain a deeper and more
subtle understanding of the ways in which biblical writers
constructed hierarchically significant difference and privileged
certain groups (e.g. persons with 'whole' bodies) over others (e.g.
persons with physical 'defects'). It also explores how ancient
interpreters of the Hebrew Bible such as the Qumran sectarians
reproduced and reconfigured earlier biblical notions of disability
and earlier classification models for their own contexts and ends.
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