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9781589831865: This Abled Body: Rethinking Disabilities in Biblical Studies: 55 (Semeia Studies)
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ISBN 10: 1589831861 ISBN 13: 9781589831865
Editorial: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007

Sinopsis

The burgeoning field of disability studies has recently emerged within the humanities and social sciences and, as a result, disability is no longer seen as the biological condition of an individual body but as a complex product of social, political, environmental, and biological discourses. The groundbreaking essays of This Abled Body engage biblical studies in conversation with the wider field of disability studies. They explore the use of the conceptual category disability in biblical and Near Eastern texts and examine how conceptions of disability become a means of narrating, interpreting, and organizing human life. Employing diverse approaches to biblical criticism, scholars explore methodological issues and specific texts related to physical and cognitive disabilities. Responses to the essays by established disability activists and academics working in the social sciences and humanities conclude the volume. The contributors are Martin Albl, Hector Avalos, Bruce C. Birch, Carole R. Fontaine, Thomas Hentrich, Nicole Kelley, Janet Lees, Sarah J. Melcher, David Mitchell, Jeremy Schipper, Sharon Snyder, Holly Joan Toensing, Neal H. Walls, and Kerry H. Wynn.

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Hector Avalos is Professor of Religious Studies at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. He is the author of The End of Biblical Studies and Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence (both from Prometheus) and Strangers in Our Own Land: Religion in U.S. Latina/o Literature (Abingdon). Sarah J. Melcher is Associate Professor of Hebrew Scriptures and Co-Director of the Ethics/Religion and Society Program at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. Jeremy Schipper is a Lecturer in Hebrew Bible at Temple University and an affiliated faculty member of Temple’s Institute on Disabilities. He is the author of Disability Studies and the Hebrew Bible: Figuring Mephibosheth in the David Story (T&T Clark).

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Editorial
Society of Biblical Literature
Año de publicación
2007
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1589831861
ISBN 13 
9781589831865
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
256
Editor
Avalos Hector, Schipper Jeremy, Melcher Sarah J.
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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9789004146686: This Abled Body: Rethinking Disabilities in Biblical Studies (Society of Biblical Literature Semeia Studies)

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