Disability studies and biblical literature / edited by Candida R. Moss and Jeremy Schipper.

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

xvi, 232 pages ; 22 cm

1st ed.

The nature of barrenness in the Hebrew Bible / Joel S. Baden -- The blind, the lame, and the barren shall not come into the house / Susan Ackerman -- "Like the eunuch who does not beget": gender, mutilation, and negotiated status in the ancient Near East / T. M. Lemos -- Sexual disabilities in the Hebrew Bible / David Tabb Stewart -- The ascription of physical disability as a stigmatizing strategy in biblical iconic polemics / Saul M. Olyan -- Whoring after cripples: on the intersection of gender and disability imagery in Jeremiah / Rebecca Raphael -- A tale of two eunuchs: Isaiah 56:1-8 and Acts 8:26-40 / Sarah J. Melcher -- "The blind, lame, and paralyzed" (John 5:3): John's Gospel, disability studies, and postcolonial perspectives / Warren Carter -- "His feet and ankles were made strong": signs of character in the man lame from birth / Mikeal C. Parsons -- Paul's disability: the thorn in his flesh / Adela Yarbro Collins -- In sickness and in health: ancient rituals of truth in the Greco-Roman world and 1 Peter / Meghan Henning -- "The punishment of the devil was apparent in the torment of the human body": epilepsy in ancient Christianity / Nicole Kelley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.