Sense and Stigma in the Gospels: Depictions of Sensory-Disabled Characters

The senses are used within New Testament texts as instruments of knowledge and power and thus constitute important mediators of cultural knowledge and experience. Likewise, those instances where sensory faculty is perceived to be 'disabled' in some way also become key sites for ideological...

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Main Author: Lawrence, Louise J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Oxford OUP Oxford 2013
In:Year: 2013
Reviews:[Rezension von: Sense and stigma in the gospels] (2017) (Jacob, Sharon, 1978 -)
[Rezension von: Lawrence, Louise J., Sense and Stigma in the Gospels: Depictions of Sensory-Disabled Characters] (2017) (Davids, Peter H., 1947 -)
Sense and Stigma in the Gospels: Depictions of Sensory-Disabled Characters. By Louise J. Lawrence (2014) (Senior, Donald, 1940 -)
Series/Journal:Biblical Refigurations
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Gospels / Stigmatized / Mentally ill person / Handicapped
IxTheo Classification:HC New Testament
Further subjects:B Electronic books
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Summary:The senses are used within New Testament texts as instruments of knowledge and power and thus constitute important mediators of cultural knowledge and experience. Likewise, those instances where sensory faculty is perceived to be 'disabled' in some way also become key sites for ideological commentary and critique. However, often biblical scholarship, itself 'disabled' by eye-centric and textocentric 'norms', has read sensory-disabled characters as nothing more than inert sites ofhealing; their agency, including their alternative sensory modes of communication and resistance to oppression, rema
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ISBN:0199590095