Negotiating The Disabled Body: Representations Of Disability In Early Christian Texts (Early Christianity And Its Literature)

An intersectional study of New Testament and noncanonical literature Anna Rebecca Solev?g explores how nonnormative bodies are presented in early Christian literature through the lens of disability studies. In a number of case studies, Solev?g shows how early Christians struggled to come to terms with issues relating to body, health, and dis/ability in the gospel stories, apocryphal narratives, Pauline letters, and patristic expositions. Solev?g 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. Features: Case studies that reveal a variety of understandings, attitudes, medical frameworks, and taxonomies for how disabled bodies were interpreted A methodology that uses disability as an analytical tool that contributes insights about cultural categories, ideas of otherness, and social groupsÆ access to or lack of power An intersectional perspective drawing on feminist, gender, queer, race, class, and postcolonial studies

• | Author: Anna Rebecca Solev?g
• | Publisher: Sbl Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 05, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 206 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Religion
• | ISBN-10: 0884143252
• | ISBN-13: 9780884143253