LEADER 03290nam 2200517 450 001 9910457160703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-19-161982-5 035 $a(CKB)2550000000048538 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24082436 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC771747 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL771747 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11204240 035 $a(OCoLC)753480364 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000048538 100 $a20170109h20112011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aDisability and Isaiah's suffering servant /$fJeremy Schipper 210 1$aOxford, [England] :$cOxford University Press,$d2011. 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (208 p.) 225 1 $aBiblical Refigurations 311 $a0-19-959486-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 8 $aIn standard biblical interpretations the 'Suffering Servant' figure in Isaiah 53 is understood as an otherwise able bodied person who suffers. Jeremy Schipper challenges this reading and shows that the text describes the servant with language and imagery typically associated with disability in ancient Near Eastern literature.$bAlthough 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 person or community. Thissituation contributes to the appearance (or illusion) of a Hebrew Bible that uses disability as a rich literary trope while disavowing the presence of figures or characters with disabilities. Isaiah 53 provides a wonderful example of this dynamic at work. The "Suffering Servant" figure in Isaiah 53 has captured the imagination of readers since very early in the history of biblical interpretation. Most interpreters understand the servant as an otherwise able bodied person who suffers. By contrast, Jeremy Schipper's study shows that Isaiah 53 describes the servant with language and imagery typically associated with disability in the Hebrew Bible and other ancient Near Easternliterature. Informed by recent work in disability studies from across the humanities, it traces both the disappearance of the servant's disability from the interpretative history of Isaiah 53 and the scholarly creation of the able bodied suffering servant. 410 0$aBiblical refigurations. 606 $aDisabilities$xBible teaching 606 $aSuffering$xBible teaching 606 $aServant of Jehovah$xBible teaching 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDisabilities$xBible teaching. 615 0$aSuffering$xBible teaching. 615 0$aServant of Jehovah$xBible teaching. 676 $a224.1 700 $aSchipper$b Jeremy$0858116 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457160703321 996 $aDisability and Isaiah's suffering servant$91915837 997 $aUNINA