Schipper Jeremy - Disability and Isaiahs Suffering Servant

Biblical Refigurations

Disability and Isaiahs Suffering Servant

BIBLICAL REFIGURATIONS

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This innovative series offers new perspectives on the textual, cultural, and interpretative contexts of particular biblical characters, inviting readers to take a fresh look at the methodologies of Biblical Studies. Individual volumes employ different critical methods including social-scientific criticism, critical theory, historical criticism, reception history, postcolonialism, and gender studies, while subjects include both prominent and lesser known figures from the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.

JEREMY SCHIPPER

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In her important book Biblical Corpora: Representations of Disability in Hebrew Biblical Literature, Rebecca Raphael comments that disability critiques of standard commentaries are an imperative for future research. This book serves as a response to this observation. More specifically, I intend this book to refine some aspects on my earlier book, Disability Studies and the Hebrew Bible, which focused on how disability imagery plays an important role in how the Hebrew Bible, particularly SamuelKings, articulates and organizes various ideological positions. Since then, I have become more aware that the ubiquitous use of disability imagery in the Hebrew Bible does not translate into the presence of people with disabilities in the Hebrew Bible. Isaiah 52:1353:12 provides an ideal text for a discussion of how disability imagery eclipses persons with disabilities in the history of biblical interpretation.