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

by Anna Rebecca Solevåg

Book Overview

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, Solev g 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0884143252
• ISBN13: 9780884143253
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: SBL Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"