Author(s): Hector Avalos, Sarah J. Melcher, Jeremy Schipper (eds.)
Series: Society of Biblical Literature Semeia Studies
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 254
Contents
......Page 6
Abbreviations......Page 8
Introduction
Hector Avalos, Sarah J. Melcher, Jeremy Schipper......Page 11
Part One Rethinking Disabilities in Ancient Texts......Page 21
1. The Origins of the Disabled Body: Disability in Ancient Mesopotamia Neal H. Walls......Page 23
2. Deformity and Disability in Greece and Rome Nicole Kelley......Page 41
3. Introducing Sensory Criticism in Biblical Studies: Audiocentricity and Visiocentricity Hector Avalos......Page 57
4. "Be Men, O Philistines" (1 Samuel 4:9): Iconographic Representations and Refl ections on Female Gender as Disability in the Ancient World Carole R. Fontaine......Page 71
5. Masculinity and Disability in the Bible Thomas Hentrich......Page 83
Part Two Biblical Texts and Disability Studies......Page 99
6. The Normate Hermeneutic and Interpretations of Disability within the Yahwistic Narratives Kerry H. Wynn......Page 101
7. Disabling Israelite Leadership: 2 Samuel 6:23 and Other Images of Disability in the Deuteronomistic History Jeremy Schipper......Page 113
8. With Whom Do the Disabled Associate? Metaphorical Interplay in the Latter Prophets Sarah J. Melcher......Page 125
9. "Living among the Tombs": Society, Mental Illness, and Self-Destruction in Mark 5:1–20 Holly Joan Toensing......Page 141
10. "For Whenever I Am Weak, Then I Am Strong": Disability in Paul's Epistles Martin Albl......Page 155
Responses......Page 169
11. Enabling the Body Janet Lees......Page 171
12. "Jesus Thrown Everything Off Balance": Disability and Redemption in Biblical Literature David Mitchell, Sharon Snyder......Page 183
13. Impairment as a Condition in Biblical Scholarship: A Response Bruce C. Birch......Page 195
Conclusion Hector Avalos, Sarah J. Melcher, Jeremy Schipper......Page 207
Bibliography......Page 211
List of Contributors......Page 229
Index of Subjects......Page 233
Index of Modern Authors......Page 239
Index of Ancient Sources......Page 245
Index of Selected Foreign Terms and Phrases......Page 253
