Format:
xiv, 191 pages
,
23 cm
ISBN:
9781628372212
,
9780884143253
Series Statement:
Early Christianity and its literature number 23
Content:
"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"--
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780884143260
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Solevåg, Anna Rebecca Negotiating the disabled body Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, 2018
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Solevåg, Anna Rebecca Negotiating the disabled body Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, 2018 ISBN 9780884143260
Language:
English
Keywords:
Behinderung
;
Frühchristentum
Bookmarklink
