representations of disability in early Christian texts Solevåg, Anna Rebecca 1973- creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. gau 2018 monographic eng 1 online resource (xiv, 191 pages). "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. by Anna Rebecca Solevåg. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Criticism, interpretation, etc Disabilities Religious aspects Christianity Christian literature, Early History and criticism People with disabilities in the Bible Christian literature, Early People with disabilities in the Bible People with disabilities Religious aspects Christianity RELIGION / Christian Life / Social Issues RELIGION / Christianity / General BT732.7 .S647 2018 261.8/32409 Solevåg, Anna Rebecca, 1973- author. Atlanta : SBL Press, [2018] (DLC) 2018033041 0884143260 9780884143260 2018044032 22573/ctv6s460c JSTOR http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1912405 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1912405 DLC 180912 20200709060626.0 on1052905089 eng