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Disability Studies and Biblical Literature / by C. Moss, J. Schipper.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Moss
Contributor:
Moss, Candida, 1978-
Schipper, Jeremy.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Sociology.
Religion.
Religion--Philosophy.
Christianity.
Literature.
Bible--Study and teaching.
Bible.
Philosophy of Religion.
Biblical Studies.
Local Subjects:
Sociology.
Religion.
Philosophy of Religion.
Christianity.
Literature.
Biblical Studies.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (232 pages)
Edition:
1st ed. 2011.
Place of Publication:
New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
The primary aim of this volume is to synthesize the two fields of disability studies and biblical studies. It illustrates how academic or critical biblical scholarship has shown that many texts involving disability in the Bible is much more nuanced than a casual reading or isolated proof texting may indicate.
Contents:
The nature of barrenness in the Hebrew Bible / Joel S. Baden
The blind, the lame, and the barren shall not come into the house / Susan Ackerman
"Like the eunuch who does not beget": gender, mutilation, and negotiated status in the ancient Near East / T.M. Lemos
Sexual disabilities in the Hebrew Bible / David Tabb Stewart
The ascription of physical disability as a stigmatizing strategy in biblical iconic polemics / Saul M. Olyan
Whoring after cripples: on the intersection of gender and disability imagery in Jeremiah / Rebecca Raphael
A tale of two eunuchs: Isaiah 56:1-8 and Acts 8:26-40 / Sarah J. Melcher
"The blind, lame, and paralyzed" (John 5:3): John's Gospel, disability studies, and postcolonial perspectives / Warren Carter
"His feet and ankles were made strong": signs of character in the man lame from birth / Mikeal C. Parsons
Paul's disability: the thorn in his flesh / Adela Yarbro Collins
In sickness and in health: ancient rituals of truth in the Greco-Roman world and 1 Peter / Meghan Henning
"The punishment of the devil was apparent in the torment of the human body": epilepsy in ancient Christianity / Nicole Kelley.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9786613440310
9781283440318
1283440318
9781137001207
1137001208
OCLC:
775872871

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