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Negotiating the Disabled Body: Representations of Disability in Early Christian Texts

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: SBL Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm

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Negotiating the Disabled Body explores how nonnormative 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 to interpret 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 the concepts of “narrative prosthesis,” gaze and stare, stigma, monster theory, and crip theory to examine early Christian material to reveal the multiple, polyphonous, contradictory ways in which nonnormative bodies appear.
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Negotiating the Disabled Body: Representations of Disability in Early Christian TextsNegotiating the Disabled Body: Representations of Disability in Early Christian Texts

  • Title

    Negotiating the Disabled Body: Representations of Disability in Early Christian Texts

  • Author

    Anna Rebecc Solev G

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    SBL Press

  • Published

    October 2018

  • Weight

    309g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9781628372212

  • ISBN-10

    1628372214

  • Eden Code

    4828369

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