{"product_id":"loving-our-own-bones-9781399804240","title":"Loving Our Own Bones","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 73rd National Jewish Book Awards Winner \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003eContemporary Jewish Life \u0026amp; Practice \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOpen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLoving Our Own Bones\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hodder \u0026 Stoughton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738927673687,"sku":"9781399804240","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781399804240.jpg?v=1720050604","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/loving-our-own-bones-9781399804240","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}