Negotiating the disabled body : representations of disability in early Christian texts / Anna Rebecca Solevag.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Solevåg, Anna Rebecca, author.

Series:

Early Christianity and its literature ; Number 23.

Early Christianity and its literature ; Number 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. New Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Disabilities--Religious aspects--Christianity--Early works to 1800.

Disabilities.

Christian literature, Early.

People with disabilities in the Bible.

Suffering--Religious aspects--Christianity--Early works to 1800.

Suffering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 pages).

Place of Publication:

Atlanta, GA : SBL Press, [2018]

Summary:

"Negotiating the Disabled Body explores how non-normative bodies are presented in early Christian literature through the lens of disability studies. In a number of case studies, Solevåg shows how early Christians struggled to come to terms with issues relating to body, health, and dis/ability. These efforts towards interpretation of unruly and extraordinary bodies appear in the texts in a multitude of ways, from healing in the Gospels to inflicting disability in the Acts of Peter and from theologizing in Paul's letters to using disability as invective in Papias. Solevåg uses concepts of "narrative prosthesis," gaze and stare, stigma, monster theory, and crip theory to examine early Christian material to reveal the multiple, polyphonous, contradicting ways in which non-normative bodies appear"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : disability and early Christian literature

Healings as narrative prosthesis in Mark

John and the symbolic significance of disability

Disabling women in the Acts of Peter

The rhetoric of madness and demon possession

Judas the Monster : policing the borders of the human

Eunuchs in/and the Kingdom of God

Conclusion : polyphonic voices.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-88414-326-0