The two-sided coin – disability, normalcy and social categorization in the New Testament
Abstract
This article addresses the issue of disability, normalcy and social categorization in relation to the New Testament. It discusses how disabilities ended up in elusive and contradictory categories where a number of various mechanisms and roles coincided and where different systems of logic converged. The scrutiny suggests that people with disabilities simultaneously were considered to be both a threat and an opportunity. The analysis illustrates how the interpretation of disability is a malleable phenomenon continually affected by changes within the cultural context.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15017419.2015.1064027 | Journal eISSN: 1745-3011
Language: English
Page range: 269 - 279
Submitted on: Nov 28, 2014
Accepted on: Jun 5, 2015
Published on: Jul 3, 2016
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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© 2016 Staffan Bengtsson, published by Stockholm University Press
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