TY  - BOOK
AU  - Solevåg,Anna Rebecca
TI  - Negotiating the disabled body: representations of disability in early Christian texts 
T2  - Early Christianity and its literature
SN  - 0884143260
AV  - BT732.7 .S647 2018
U1  - 261.8/32409 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Atlanta
PB  - SBL Press
KW  - Bible
KW  - New Testament
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - fast
KW  - Disabilities
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Christian literature, Early
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - People with disabilities in the Bible
KW  - People with disabilities
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Life / Social Issues
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION / Christianity / General
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; 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
N2  - "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"--
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