Why Does Imagery of Disability Include Healing in Isaiah?

The restoration of the exilic community ranks among the most dominant themes in prophetic literature. Imagery of physical disability serves as a standard element within prophetic oracles concerning exilic restoration throughout the Hebrew Bible. Yet, outside of Isaiah, oracles concerning exilic rest...

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Main Author: Schipper, Jeremy 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2015
In: Journal for the study of the Old Testament
Year: 2015, Volume: 39, Issue: 3, Pages: 319-333
Further subjects:B Disability
B utopian oracles
B Prophets
B Healing
B Isaiah
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Summary:The restoration of the exilic community ranks among the most dominant themes in prophetic literature. Imagery of physical disability serves as a standard element within prophetic oracles concerning exilic restoration throughout the Hebrew Bible. Yet, outside of Isaiah, oracles concerning exilic restoration that involve disability imagery do not usually include physical healings. This article argues that the handful of healings of disability in oracles involving restoration in Isaiah does not invalidate this general rule, even though they are often depicted as representative of the use of disability imagery in prophetic literature. Instead, these seemingly anomalous Isaianic healings may be explained as an element within a larger rhetorical agenda that grows out of Isaianic depictions of the divine protection and restoration of Zion and its inhabitants with physical idealization.
ISSN:1476-6728
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the Old Testament
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0309089215577594