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Barren, Blind, Berserk : = (Un)Assuming Disability and Madness in Judges 13-16.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Barren, Blind, Berserk :/
其他題名:	(Un)Assuming Disability and Madness in Judges 13-16.
作者:	Jones, Kirsty Louise.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (178 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-11A.
標題:	Biblical studies. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30419323click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798379453169

Barren, Blind, Berserk : = (Un)Assuming Disability and Madness in Judges 13-16.
Jones, Kirsty Louise.

Barren, Blind, Berserk :(Un)Assuming Disability and Madness in Judges 13-16. - 1 online resource (178 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-11, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Georgetown University, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

I build on existing work in biblical studies and disability studies to expose strategies of exegesis which focus on the removal of disability from the text. I term this "curative exegesis," drawing on the insights of Alison Kafer who describes and critiques the prevalent "curative imaginary." Dwelling with disability rather than waiting for a cure, I focus on the potential and potency of disabled bodyminds in Judges 13-16. I ask who has the power to designate disability and madness, what such designations betray, and what power there is in disability embodied and enacted. Readers often read the barrenness of Samson's mother as tragic, with its reversal a welcome and celebrated miracle. The Hebrew Bible and its context do describe tragic barrenness, but also describe tragic bearing and tragic birthing. Drawing on Eunjung Kim's work on curative violence, I considered the dark side of cure within Judges 13, exposing how curative exegesis ignores the complex nature of barrenness, childbearing, and childbirth. YHVH aligns Hazelelponi's bodymind with that of the normate female bodymind. YHVH moves her son, also used as a tool against the Philistines, away from the normate. When the spirit of YHVH troubles and rushes upon Samson, it transforms him, takes him away from being "like any other person" (Judg 16:11). He becomes agitated, considered dangerously abnormal by those around him. Using concepts and perspectives from mad studies, I focus on Samson as controlled, out of control, and uncontrollable. I argue that Samson is more impotent when consumed by YHVH's spirit than when blinded, but that Samson uses the Philistines' perception of his blindness as weakness. The Philistines know that Samson's strength is not in his eyes, but they assume that once he is bound and blind, the man who destroyed so many of them in the past is no longer a threat. When they bring him out of the prison to perform, turning him into a spectacle, Samson uses what they assume about blindness to get into position and destroy them. In this way, Samson is the playwright who brings the house down.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798379453169Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122820
Biblical studies.
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GenderIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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