Negotiating the disabled body: representations of disability in early Christian texts
"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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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Atlanta
SBL Press
[2018]
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| In: |
Early christianity and its literature (Number 23)
Year: 2018 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Solevåg, Anna Rebecca, Negotiating the disabled body : representations of disability in early Christian texts] (2020) (Hancock, Lisa)
[Rezension von: Solevåg, Anna Rebecca, Negotiating the disabled body : representations of disability in early Christian texts] (2020) (Shedd, Nathan L.) |
| Series/Journal: | Early christianity and its literature
Number 23 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Handicap
/ Church
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| Further subjects: | B
Christian literature, Early
History and criticism
B People with disabilities Religious aspects Christianity B People with disabilities in the Bible B Bible. New Testament Criticism, interpretation, etc |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
Electronic |
| 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"-- 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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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1628372214 |