Negotiating the disabled body : representations of disability in early Christian texts

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

"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....

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Main Author: Solevåg, Anna Rebecca (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Atlanta : SBL Press, [2018]
Series:Early Christianity and its literature ; no. 23.
Subjects:
Bible. > New Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. > New Testament
Disabilities > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Christian literature, Early > History and criticism.
People with disabilities in the Bible.
RELIGION / Christian Life / Social Issues
RELIGION / Christianity / General
Christian literature, Early
People with disabilities in the Bible
Disabilities > Religious aspects > Christianity
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of 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.

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