Full Description
The Bible and Disability: A Commentary (BDC) is the first comprehensive commentary on the Bible from the perspective of disability. The BDC examines how the Bible constructs or reflects human wholeness, impairment, and disability in all their expressions. Biblical texts do envision the ideal body, but they also present visions of the body that deviate from this ideal, whether physically or through cognitive impairments or mental illness. The BDC engages the full range of these depictions of body and mind, exploring their meaning through close readings and comparative analysis.
The BDC enshrines the distinctive interpretive imagination required to span the worlds of biblical studies and disability studies. Each of the fourteen contributors has worked at this intersection; and through their combined expertise, the very best of both biblical studies and disability studies culminates in detailed textual work of description, interpretation, and application to provide a synthetic and synoptic whole. The result is a close reading of the Bible that gives long-overdue attention to the fullness of human identity narrated in the Scriptures.
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Contents
Preface
Introduction, by Sarah J. Melcher
BEGINNINGS
1. Genesis and Exodus, by Sarah J. Melcher
LAW
2. Leviticus-Deuteronomy, by David Tabb Stewart
HISTORY
3. Joshua-Second Kings, by Jeremy Schipper
4. First and Second Chronicles-Esther, by Kerry H. Wynn
WISDOM
5. Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes, by Sarah J. Melcher
6. Psalms, Lamentations, and Song of Songs, by Jennifer L. Koosed
PROPHETS
7. Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Twelve, by J. Blake Couey
SYNOPTIC GOSPELS AND ACTS
8. Mark and Matthew, by Candida R. Moss
9. Luke-Acts, by David F. Watson
JOHANNINE LITERATURE
10 John, First-Third John, and Revelation, by Jaime Clark-Soles
PAULINE LETTERS
11. Paul, by Arthur J. Dewey and Anna C. Miller
THE GENERAL LETTERS
12. Hebrews and the Catholic Letters, by Martin C. Albl
