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Author Lawrence, Louise Joy, 1975-

Title Sense and Stigma in the Gospels : Depictions of Sensory-Disabled Characters
Published Oxford University Press, USA, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Biblical refigurations
Biblical refigurations.
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Sense and Stigma; Embodiment and Performance; Disability Studies; Sensory Anthropology; Overview of Book; 1. Looking through a Glass Darkly: Sensing Disabilities of Biblical Studies; The Senses in Biblical Studies; Biblical Studies: A 'Sight-Centric' and 'Textocentric' Discipline; A Sensory Profiling of Biblical Studies: Disabilities and Possibilities; Language and Metaphors; Artefacts, Aesthetics, and Media of Communication; Biblical Studies: Disabilities and Possibilities
2. Blind Spots and Metaphors: Refiguring Sightless Characters in the GospelsBlindness as a Metaphorical Tool of Rejection; Corporeal Metaphors: Illness and Disability; The Metaphor's Referent: Sightlessness, Stereotypes, and Stigma; Biographical Insights from Blind Interpreters; Transgressive Reappropriation of Blind Characters; Disabling Eye sight; Resistant Touch and More Reciprocal Relationships; Blind Spots and Metaphors: Refiguring Sightless Characters in the Gospels; 3. Sounding Out a 'Deaf-Mute': Mark 7: 31-37 as Deaf World Performance
The Silencing of the 'Deaf-Mute' in Biblical StudiesDeaf World Arts: Subverting Audism and Cultivating a 'Third Ear'; Aaron Williamson's 'Phantom Shifts'; Peter Cook and Kenny Lerner's 'I Am Ordered Now to Talk'; Sounding Out a 'Deaf-Mute'; 4. The Stench of Untouchability: Sensory Tactics of a Leper, Legion, and Leaky Woman; The Leper, Legion, and Leaky Woman as 'Untouchables'; The Stench of Untouchability; Stinking Humiliation: The Sensory Tactics of the Leper; Dirty Protest and Naked Ambition: The Sensory Tactics of Legion; Seeping Bodies: The Leaky Woman's Sensory Tactics
Untouchability and Sensory Tactics5. Sense, Seizures, and Illness Narratives: The Case of an 'Epileptic'/ 'Demon-Possessed, Boy'; Diagnosis and Exegesis: The Boy with Seizures; Medical Anthropology and Storytelling; Refiguring the Story of the Boy with Seizures: Chaos and Quest; Sense, Seizures, and Illness Narratives; Conclusion: 'Sensory-Disabled' Characters Refiguring God; Challenging the Binary: Ability and Disability; 'Sensory-Disabled' Characters Refigured; Refiguring Jesus and God; Notes; Works Cited; Index to Sense and Stigma in the Gospels; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O
PQ; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Index to Biblical and Other Ancient Texts
Summary The senses are used within New Testament texts as instruments of knowledge and power and thus constitute important mediators of cultural knowledge and experience. Likewise, those instances where sensory faculty is perceived to be 'disabled' in some way also become key sites for ideological commentary and critique. However, often biblical scholarship, itself 'disabled' by eye-centric and textocentric 'norms', has read sensory-disabled characters as nothing more than inert sites ofhealing; their agency, including their alternative sensory modes of communication and resistance to oppression, rema
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SUBJECT Bible. Gospels -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible Gospels
Bible. Gospels fast
Subject Senses and sensation in the Bible.
People with disabilities in the Bible.
People with disabilities.
Sensory disorders.
Medicine -- Religious aspects.
Christianity.
Disabled Persons
Sensation Disorders
Religion and Medicine
Christianity
Social Stigma
handicapped.
physically handicapped.
Christianity.
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Jesus, the Gospels & Acts.
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- New Testament.
Sensory disorders
People with disabilities
Medicine -- Religious aspects
Christianity
People with disabilities in the Bible
Senses and sensation in the Bible
Sinne.
Behinderung.
Stigmatisierung.
Menschenbild.
Theologische Anthropologie.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1299966756
9781299966758
9780191667480
019166748X