Apôtre handicapé : déficience et handicap dans les lettres de Paul, en ligne Hardcove...

Product Name: Apôtre handicapé : déficience et handicap dans les lettres de Paul, en ligne Hardcove...
Book Title：Disabled Apostle : Impairment and Disability in the Letters of Pa Author：Soon, Isaac T. en ligne Language：English ISBN：9780192885241
Disabled Apostle : Impairment and Disability in the Letters of Paul, Hardcover by Soon, Isaac T., ISBN 0192885243, ISBN-13 9780192885241, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK

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 Pauls 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. Th also examines Pauls 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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