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Disability Studies and the Hebrew Bible

Figuring Mephibosheth in the David Story

Disability Studies and the Hebrew Bible

Figuring Mephibosheth in the David Story

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780567337511
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 01/06/2009
This unique interdisciplinary book uses a fresh approach to explore issues of disability in the Hebrew Bible. This text uses a fresh approach to explore issues of disability in the Hebrew Bible. It examines how disability functions in the David Story ("1 Samuel" 16; "1 Kings" 2) by paying special attention to Mephibosheth, the only biblical character with a disability as a sustained character trait. "The David Story" contains some of the Bible's most striking images of disability. Nonetheless, interpreters tend to focus on legal material rather than narratives when studying disability in the Hebrew Bible. Often, they neglect the David Story's complex use of disability. They overlook its use of disability imagery as open to critical interpretation because its stereotypical meanings may seem so commonplace and transparent. Yet recent work in the burgeoning field of disability studies presents disability as a complicated motif that demands more critical engagement than it typically receives. Informed by exciting developments in the field, it argues that the David Story employs disability imagery as a subtle mode of narrating and organizing various ideological positions regarding national identity. Over the last 30 years this pioneering series has established an unrivaled reputation for cutting-edge international scholarship in Biblical Studies and has attracted leading authors and editors in the field. The series takes many original and creative approaches to its subjects, including innovative work from historical and theological perspectives, social-scientific and literary theory, and more recent developments in cultural studies and reception history.
Chapter One; "He was Grounded, Surrounded, with Nothing to Say": Mephibosheth, Biblical Criticism and Disability Studies; Chapter Two; "My Teacher Mephibosheth, Is My Decision Right?": Mephibosheth in the History of Interpretation; Chapter Three; A Body Fit for a King: Disability and the Politics of Royal Representation in the Ancient Near East; Chapter Four; Disabling Boundaries: Mephibosheth and the Problems of Flat Interpretation; Chapter Five; "Why Do You Still Speak of Your Affairs?": Conclusions and Implications of this Study.

Dr. Jeremy Schipper

Jeremy Schipper is the Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Siena College. He holds a Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible from Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the co-editor of a forthcoming collection of essays entitled This Abled Body: Rethinking Disabilities in Biblical Studies.

"Schipper's fascinating and challenging engagement with how Mephibosheth is figured in the David story is at the same time an insight into how a physically disabled scholar is negotiating the gap in conversation between the guilds of disability and Biblical Studies." 32.5 (2008)--Sanford Lakoff "Journal for The Study of the Old Testament "

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