Disability and Isaiah's Suffering Servant

Zusatztext It is accessible to both scholars and general readers Klappentext In standard biblical interpretations the "Suffering Servant" figure in Isaiah 53 is understood as an otherwise able bodied person who suffers. Jeremy Schipper challenges this reading and shows that the text describes the servant with language and imagery typically associated with disability in ancient Near Eastern literature. It is accessible to both scholars and general readers Randall Heskett, Boulder University, Boulder, Colorado Zusammenfassung In standard biblical interpretations the "Suffering Servant" figure in Isaiah 53 is understood as an otherwise able bodied person who suffers. Jeremy Schipper challenges this reading and shows that the text describes the servant with language and imagery typically associated with disability in ancient Near Eastern literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Disabling Methodology in Hebrew Bible Studies 2: The Servant as a Figure with Disabilities 3: The Servant as Scriptural Sufferer 4: The Servant as Historical or Collective Sufferer Conclusions: The Servant as Able Bodied Passer

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy Schipper, Jeremy (Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible Schipper
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 02.09.2011, delayed
• EAN: 9780199594863
• ISBN: 978-0-19-959486-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Biblical Refigurations; Biblical Refigurations
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity