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Index
Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction Hector Avalos, Sarah J. Melcher, Jeremy Schipper
Essays
Part One Rethinking Disabilities in Ancient Texts
1. The Origins of the Disabled Body: Disability in Ancient Mesopotamia Neal H. Walls
2. Deformity and Disability in Greece and Rome Nicole Kelley
3. Introducing Sensory Criticism in Biblical Studies: Audiocentricity and Visiocentricity Hector Avalos
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
5. Masculinity and Disability in the Bible Thomas Hentrich
Part Two Biblical Texts and Disability Studies
6. The Normate Hermeneutic and Interpretations of Disability within the Yahwistic Narratives Kerry H. Wynn
7. Disabling Israelite Leadership: 2 Samuel 6:23 and Other Images of Disability in the Deuteronomistic History Jeremy Schipper
8. With Whom Do the Disabled Associate? Metaphorical Interplay in the Latter Prophets Sarah J. Melcher
9. "Living among the Tombs": Society, Mental Illness, and Self-Destruction in Mark 5:1–20 Holly Joan Toensing
10. "For Whenever I Am Weak, Then I Am Strong": Disability in Paul's Epistles Martin Albl
Responses
11. Enabling the Body Janet Lees
12. "Jesus Thrown Everything Off Balance": Disability and Redemption in Biblical Literature David Mitchell, Sharon Snyder
13. Impairment as a Condition in Biblical Scholarship: A Response Bruce C. Birch
Conclusion Hector Avalos, Sarah J. Melcher, Jeremy Schipper
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index of Subjects
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Selected Foreign Terms and Phrases
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