Loving our own bones : disability wisdom and the spiritual subversiveness of knowing ourselves whole /
Attitudes about disability have such deep cultural roots we almost forget their sources, but open the Bible and disability is everywhere. Moses stutters, Isaac is blind, Jesus heals the sick, the paralyzed and the possessed. Yet religious leaders and cultural commentators treat disability as a metap...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Beacon Press,
[2023].
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| Summary: | Attitudes about disability have such deep cultural roots we almost forget their sources, but open the Bible and disability is everywhere. Moses stutters, Isaac is blind, Jesus heals the sick, the paralyzed and the possessed. Yet religious leaders and cultural commentators treat disability as a metaphor for spiritual incapacity, or a challenge to be overcome. Belser, herself a queer disabled Jewish feminist, uses fresh readings of familiar biblical stories to demonstrate how disability wisdom can guide us all toward a powerful reckoning with the complexities of the flesh. |
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| Physical Description: | 276 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807006757 0807006750 |