Name: Matthew, Disability, and Stress: Examining Impaired Characters in the Context of Empire
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Author: Engelhardt, Jillian D.
ISBN: 9781978712034

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Matthew, Disability, and Stress: Examining Impaired Characters in the Context of Empire

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Physical Book

Author

Jillian D. Engelhardt

Publisher

Fortress Academic

Language

English

Pages

232

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.51 kg.

ISBN13

9781978712034

Synopsis "Matthew, Disability, and Stress: Examining Impaired Characters in the Context of Empire "

In Matthew, Disability, and Stress: Examining Impaired Characters in the Context of Empire, Jillian D. Engelhardt examines four Matthean healing narratives, focusing on the impaired characters in the scenes. Her reading is informed by both empire studies and social stress theory, a method that explores how the stress inherent in social location can affect psychosomatic health. By examining the Roman imperial context in which common folk lived and worked, she argues that attention to social and somatic circumstances, which may have accompanied or caused the described disabilities/impairments, destabilizes readings of these stories that suggest the encounter with Jesus was straightforwardly good and the healing was permanent. Instead, Engelhardt proposes various new contexts for and offers more nuanced characterizations of the disabled/impaired people in each discussed scene, resulting in ambiguous interpretations that de-center Jesus and challenge able-bodied assumptions about embodiment, disability, and healing.

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