Disability Studies and Biblical Literature

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Nature of Barrenness in the Hebrew Bible

Chapter 3 The Blind, the Lame, and the Barren Shall Not Come into the House

Chapter 4 “Like the eunuch who does not beget”: Gender, Mutilation, and Negotiated Status in the Ancient Near East

Chapter 6 The Ascription of Physical Disability as a Stigmatizing Strategy in Biblical Iconic Polemics

Chapter 7 Whoring after Cripples: On the Intersection of Gender and Disability Imagery in Jeremiah

Chapter 8 A Tale of Two Eunuchs: Isaiah 56:1–8 and Acts 8:26–40

Chapter 9 “The blind, lame and paralyzed” (John 5:3): John’s Gospel, Disability Studies, and Postcolonial Perspectives

Chapter 10 His Feet and Ankles Were Made Strong: Signs of Character in the Man Lame from Birth

Chapter 11 Paul’s Disability: The Thorn in His Flesh

Chapter 12 In Sickness and in Health: Ancient “Rituals of Truth” in the Greco-Roman World and 1 Peter

Chapter 13 ‘The punishment of the devil was apparent in the torment of the human body”: Epilepsy in Ancient Christianity