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Negotiating the disabled body : representations of disability in early Christian texts /

"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....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Solevåg, Anna Rebecca (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Atlanta : SBL Press, [2018]
Colección:Early Christianity and its literature ; no. 23.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.