On the appeal to literalism:
If either of them was maimed in the hand, or lame or dumb or blind or deaf, he cannot be condemned as a stubborn and rebellious son, for it is written, The shall his faith and his mother lay hold on him – so they were not maimed in the hand; and bring him out – so they were not lame; and they shall say – so they were not dumb; this is our son – so they were not blind; he will not obey our voice – so they were not deaf.
Sanhedrin 8.4 in William Klein, Introduction to Biblical Interpretation (Dallas: Word, 1993), 24.
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