TY  - BOOK
AU  - Avalos,Hector
AU  - Melcher,Sarah J.
AU  - Schipper,Jeremy
ED  - Society of Biblical Literature
TI  - This abled body: rethinking disabilities in biblical studies 
T2  - Semeia studies
SN  - 9781589831865 (pbk. : alk. paper)
U1  - 220.8 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Atlanta 
PB  - Society of Biblical Literature
KW  - People with disabilities in the Bible
KW  - People with disabilities in the New Testament
KW  - People with disabilities
KW  - Mediterranean Region
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-218) and indexes; Rethinking disabilities in ancient texts. The origins of the disabled body : disability in ancient Mesopotamia / Neal H. Walls. -- Deformity and disability in Greece and Rome / Nicole Kelley. -- Introducing sensory criticism in biblical studies : audiocentricity and visiocentricity / Hector Avalos. -- "Be men, O Philistines" (1 Samuel 4:9) : iconographic representations and reflections on female gender as disability in the ancient world / Carole R. Fontaine. -- Masculinity and disability in the Bible / Thomas Hentrich -- Biblical texts and disability studies. The normate hermeneutic and interpretations of disability within the Yahwistic narratives / Kerry H. Wynn. -- Disabling Israelite leadership : 2 Samuel 6:23 and other images of disability in the Deuteronomistic history / Jeremy Schipper. -- With whom do the disabled associate? : metaphorical interplay in the Latter Prophets / Sarah J. Melcher. -- "Living among the tombs" : society, mental illness, and self-destruction in Mark 5:1-20 / Holly Joan Toensing. -- "For whenever I am weak, then I am strong" : disability in Paul's epistles / Martin Albl -- Responses. Enabling the body / Janet Lees. -- "Jesus thrown everything off balance" : disability and redemption in biblical literature / David Mitchell, Sharon Snyder. -- Impairment as a condition in biblical scholarship : a response / Bruce C. Birch -- Conclusion / Hector Avalos, Sarah J. Melcher, Jeremy Schipper
N2  - The essays of This Abled Body engage biblical studies in conversation with the wider field of disability studies. They explore the use of the conceptual category "disability" in biblical and Near Eastern texts and examine how conceptions of disability become a means of narrating, interpreting, and organizing human life. Employing diverse approaches to biblical criticism, scholars explore methodological issues and specific texts related to physical and cognitive disabilities. Responses to the essays by established disability activists and academics working in the social sciences and humanities conclude the volume. --From publisher's description
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0726/2007035805.html
ER  -