Disability and Isaiah's Suffering Servant

by Jeremy Schipper

Book Overview

Although disability imagery is ubiquitous in the Hebrew Bible, characters with disabilities are not. The presence of the former does not guarantee the presence of the later. While interpreters explain away disabilities in specific characters, they celebrate the rhetorical contributions that disability imagery makes to the literary artistry of biblical prose and poetry, often as a trope to describe the suffering or struggles of a presumably nondisabled...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199594864
• ISBN13: 9780199594863
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 7.9"