A disabled apostle : impairment and disability in the letters of Paul / Isaac T. Soon.
Speculation around the health of Paul the Apostle has been present since soon after his death. Recently scholars have understood Paul to be disabled but have been wary of isolating precisely what his disabilities may have been or whether they are important for understanding his writings. This book...
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| 520 | |a Speculation around the health of Paul the Apostle has been present since soon after his death. Recently scholars have understood Paul to be disabled but have been wary of isolating precisely what his disabilities may have been or whether they are important for understanding his writings. This book is the first full-length study of Paul the Apostle and disability. Using insights from contemporary disability studies, Isaac Soon analyses features of Paul's body in his ancient Mediterranean context to understand the ways in which his body was disabled. Focusing on three such ancient disabilities-demonization, circumcision, and short stature-this book draws on a rich variety of ancient evidence, from textual sources and epigraphy, to ancient visual culture, to analyze ancient bodily ideals and the negative cultural effects such 'deviant' persons generated. The book also examines Paul's use of his own disabilities in his letters and shows how disability is not subsidiary to his thought but a central aspect of it. This book also provides scholars with a new method for uncovering previously unrecognized disabilities in the ancient world. Last of all, it critiques the latent ableism in much New Testament scholarship, which assumes that the figures of the early Jesus movement were able-bodied. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover -- A Disabled Apostle: Impairment and Disability in the Letters of Paul -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: A Disorderly Figure -- A Socio-Cultural Model of Disability -- A Brief History of Scholarship -- An Approach for Unveiling Paul's Disability -- 1: An Angel of Satan -- Paul's Thorn in the Flesh as an Angel of Satan -- The Physical Effect of the Angel of Satan on Paul's Body -- 2: The Demon Inside -- Attending to the Demonic -- Paul, the Possessed Apostle? | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Demonic Inhabitation with the Pneuma of Christ -- 3: Demons as Disability -- Demonic Habitation as an Ancient Impairment -- The Demonic as Disability -- 4: God and the Disabling of Paul -- Disabled by God -- Revealing the Mystery of Powerful Weakness -- 5: A Bestial Glans -- Circumcision in Three Dimensions -- The Ideal Greek and Roman Phallus -- A Deviant and Dysfunctional Aesthetic -- 6: Circumcision as Disability -- Disabling Barbarians -- Disabling Circumcised Jews -- Disabling Jewish Circumcision in Early Christianity -- 7: A Disabling Gospel -- Disabling Judaizing Gentiles | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Short Stature as Disability -- Accepted, Liminal, and Disabled -- 11: The Smallest of All Apostles -- The Premature Apostle -- A Trained Boxer -- Fighting Beasts at Ephesus -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Recognizing Unrecognized Disabilities -- Bibliography -- Index -- Subject Index -- Author Index | |
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