This volume brings together diverse methodologies - source criticism, feminist studies, queer the... more This volume brings together diverse methodologies - source criticism, feminist studies, queer theory, post-colonial theory, reception history, deconstructionism, and historical criticism - to examine the role of disability in the Old and New Testaments.
Contributors include: Susan Ackerman, Joel Baden, Adela Collins, Meghan Henning, Nicole Kelley, Saul Olyan, T. M. Lemos, David Tabb Stewart, Rebecca Raphael, Mikeal Parsons, Warren Carter, and Sarah Melcher.
Reviews:
"The editors of this timely collection, which brings together high quality Biblical Studies and an issue of central importance to our society; are to be commended for this pioneering and necessary initiative" -- Christopher Rowland, Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture, Queen's College, Oxford University
"This book assembles an impressive array of scholars whose collective work changes the terrain of disability studies and biblical scholarship. Adding nuance and deep expertise to the discourse, Disability Studies and Biblical Literature shows us how much of the previous discussion of religious attitudes toward people with disabilities in the western world has been superficial and general." Lennard Davis, Distinguished Professor of English, University of Chicago.
Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 2 (2013): 458-78 (appeared 2014)
Leviticus 21:16–24 enumerate twelve blemishes that disqualify a priest from altar service. We arg... more Leviticus 21:16–24 enumerate twelve blemishes that disqualify a priest from altar service. We argue that the Holiness Legislation’s laws against physically blemished priests serving in the sanctuary are fundamentally related to the Priestly myth’s larger characterization of the Israelite god as a superhuman king, its corresponding understanding of the cult, and, in particular, its views of divine perception. YHWH, whose great powers can effect both good and ill, must be attended by servants whose ministrations are as unobtrusive as possible. It is the inconspicuous quality of priestly officiation that protects these servants as they venture into close proximity with the deity. In the case of the priest without a blemish, the cultic vestments that are required during altar service successfully mitigate the deity’s gaze, functioning as a sort of camouflage for him. Yet these vestments do not sufficiently camouflage a priest with a blemish, and this priest’s physical defect attracts excessive and potentially dangerous divine attention. H’s prohibition against sanctuary service by blemished priests, like the requirement that the priests wear the prescribed, sacred vestments, is thus both concerned to maintain the deity’s royal expectations and preferences – what we will term here his “divine repose” – and to protect the priests who serve the divine sovereign.
This volume brings together diverse methodologies - source criticism, feminist studies, queer the... more This volume brings together diverse methodologies - source criticism, feminist studies, queer theory, post-colonial theory, reception history, deconstructionism, and historical criticism - to examine the role of disability in the Old and New Testaments.
Contributors include: Susan Ackerman, Joel Baden, Adela Collins, Meghan Henning, Nicole Kelley, Saul Olyan, T. M. Lemos, David Tabb Stewart, Rebecca Raphael, Mikeal Parsons, Warren Carter, and Sarah Melcher.
Reviews:
"The editors of this timely collection, which brings together high quality Biblical Studies and an issue of central importance to our society; are to be commended for this pioneering and necessary initiative" -- Christopher Rowland, Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture, Queen's College, Oxford University
"This book assembles an impressive array of scholars whose collective work changes the terrain of disability studies and biblical scholarship. Adding nuance and deep expertise to the discourse, Disability Studies and Biblical Literature shows us how much of the previous discussion of religious attitudes toward people with disabilities in the western world has been superficial and general." Lennard Davis, Distinguished Professor of English, University of Chicago.
Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 2 (2013): 458-78 (appeared 2014)
Leviticus 21:16–24 enumerate twelve blemishes that disqualify a priest from altar service. We arg... more Leviticus 21:16–24 enumerate twelve blemishes that disqualify a priest from altar service. We argue that the Holiness Legislation’s laws against physically blemished priests serving in the sanctuary are fundamentally related to the Priestly myth’s larger characterization of the Israelite god as a superhuman king, its corresponding understanding of the cult, and, in particular, its views of divine perception. YHWH, whose great powers can effect both good and ill, must be attended by servants whose ministrations are as unobtrusive as possible. It is the inconspicuous quality of priestly officiation that protects these servants as they venture into close proximity with the deity. In the case of the priest without a blemish, the cultic vestments that are required during altar service successfully mitigate the deity’s gaze, functioning as a sort of camouflage for him. Yet these vestments do not sufficiently camouflage a priest with a blemish, and this priest’s physical defect attracts excessive and potentially dangerous divine attention. H’s prohibition against sanctuary service by blemished priests, like the requirement that the priests wear the prescribed, sacred vestments, is thus both concerned to maintain the deity’s royal expectations and preferences – what we will term here his “divine repose” – and to protect the priests who serve the divine sovereign.
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Contributors include: Susan Ackerman, Joel Baden, Adela Collins, Meghan Henning, Nicole Kelley, Saul Olyan, T. M. Lemos, David Tabb Stewart, Rebecca Raphael, Mikeal Parsons, Warren Carter, and Sarah Melcher.
Reviews:
"The editors of this timely collection, which brings together high quality Biblical Studies and an issue of central importance to our society; are to be commended for this pioneering and necessary initiative" -- Christopher Rowland, Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture, Queen's College, Oxford University
"This book assembles an impressive array of scholars whose collective work changes the terrain of disability studies and biblical scholarship. Adding nuance and deep expertise to the discourse, Disability Studies and Biblical Literature shows us how much of the previous discussion of religious attitudes toward people with disabilities in the western world has been superficial and general." Lennard Davis, Distinguished Professor of English, University of Chicago.
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Contributors include: Susan Ackerman, Joel Baden, Adela Collins, Meghan Henning, Nicole Kelley, Saul Olyan, T. M. Lemos, David Tabb Stewart, Rebecca Raphael, Mikeal Parsons, Warren Carter, and Sarah Melcher.
Reviews:
"The editors of this timely collection, which brings together high quality Biblical Studies and an issue of central importance to our society; are to be commended for this pioneering and necessary initiative" -- Christopher Rowland, Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture, Queen's College, Oxford University
"This book assembles an impressive array of scholars whose collective work changes the terrain of disability studies and biblical scholarship. Adding nuance and deep expertise to the discourse, Disability Studies and Biblical Literature shows us how much of the previous discussion of religious attitudes toward people with disabilities in the western world has been superficial and general." Lennard Davis, Distinguished Professor of English, University of Chicago.