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Matthew, Disability, and Stress
Examining Impaired Characters in the Context of Empire
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2022
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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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2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-9787-1203-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-9787-1204-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
224
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Acknowledgments No access
Locating an Impairment-Focused Reading No access Pages 1 - 20
Foundations for Investigation No access Pages 21 - 42
Rome’s Disabling Slave System (Matthew 8:5–13) No access Pages 43 - 92
Demons and Colonization (Matthew 8:28–34) No access Pages 93 - 132
The Labor Market, Poverty, and Impairment (Matthew 12:9–14) No access Pages 133 - 162
Women, Families, and Grief (Matthew 15:21–28) No access Pages 163 - 200
