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The Senses Are Used Within New Testament Texts As Instruments Of Knowledge And Power And Thus Constitute Important Mediators Of Cultural Knowledge And Experience. Likewise, Those Instances Where Sensory Faculty Is Perceived To Be Disabled In Some Way Also Become Key Sites For Ideological Commentary And Critique. However, Often Biblical Scholarship, Itself Disabled By Eye-centric And Textocentric Norms, Has Read Sensory-disabled Characters As Nothing More Than Inert Sites Of Healing; Their Agency, Including Their Alternative Sensory Modes Of Communication And Resistance To Oppression, Remain Largely Unaddressed. In Response, Louise J. Lawrence Seeks To Initiate A Variety Of Interdisciplinary Dialogues With Disability Studies And Sensory Anthropology In A Quest To Refigure Characters With Sensory Disabilities Featured In The Gospels And Provide Alternative Interpretations Of Their Conditions And Social Interactions. In Each Instance The Identity Of Those Stigmatised As Other (according To Particular Physiological, Social And Cultural Norms) Are Recovered By Exploring Ethnographic Accounts Which Document The Stories Of Those Experiencing Similar Rejection On Account Of Perceived Senso

Author

Louise Joy Lawrence

Publisher

OUP Oxford

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191667480

Subjects

Medical, Christian, Religion