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

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

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Author / Creator:	Solevåg, Anna Rebecca, 1973- author.
Imprint:	Atlanta, GA : SBL Press, [2018] ©2018
Description:	xiv, 191 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Early Christianity and its literature ; Number 23 Early Christianity and its literature ; no. 23.
Subject:	Bible. -- New Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. -- New Testament. People with disabilities -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Christian literature, Early -- History and criticism. People with disabilities in the Bible. Suffering -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Early works to 1800. Christian literature, Early. People with disabilities in the Bible. People with disabilities -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11740869

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ISBN:	9780884143253 0884143252 9781628372212 1628372214 9780884143260
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-180) and indexes.
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"--

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.