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A 73rd National Jewish Book Awards Winner - Contemporary Jewish Life & Practice

Open the Bible, and disability is everywhere. Moses stutters and thinks himself unable to answer God''s call. Isaac''s blindness lets his wife trick him into bestowing his blessing on his younger son. Jesus heals the sick the blind, the paralyzed, and the possessed. For centuries, these stories have been told and retold by commentators who treat disability as misfortune, as a metaphor for spiritual incapacity, or as a challenge to be overcome.

Loving Our Own Bones turns that perspective on its head. Drawing insights from the hard-won wisdom of disabled folks who''ve forged difference into fierce and luminous cultural dissent, Belser offers fresh and unexpected readings of familiar biblical stories, showing how disability wisdom can guide us all toward a powerful reckoning with the complexities of the flesh. She talks back to biblical commentators who traffic in disabil

Loving Our Own Bones

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      Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
      Published 14 September 2023
      ISBN-13 9781399804240
      978-1399804240
      ISBN-10 1399804243
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      History of religion Religion: general

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A 73rd National Jewish Book Awards Winner - Contemporary Jewish Life & Practice

      Open the Bible, and disability is everywhere. Moses stutters and thinks himself unable to answer God''s call. Isaac''s blindness lets his wife trick him into bestowing his blessing on his younger son. Jesus heals the sick the blind, the paralyzed, and the possessed. For centuries, these stories have been told and retold by commentators who treat disability as misfortune, as a metaphor for spiritual incapacity, or as a challenge to be overcome.

      Loving Our Own Bones turns that perspective on its head. Drawing insights from the hard-won wisdom of disabled folks who''ve forged difference into fierce and luminous cultural dissent, Belser offers fresh and unexpected readings of familiar biblical stories, showing how disability wisdom can guide us all toward a powerful reckoning with the complexities of the flesh. She talks back to biblical commentators who traffic in disabil

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