LibGuides: Disability and Christianity: Biblical Commentaries and Resources

Significant Texts

The Bible and Disability by Sarah J. Melcher (Editor); Mikeal C. Parsons (Editor); Amos Yong (Editor)
Call Number: BS 680.P435 B53 2017
The Bible and Disability: A Commentary (BDC) is the first comprehensive commentary on the Bible from the perspective of disability. The BDC examines how the Bible constructs or reflects human wholeness, impairment, and disability in all their expressions.
Disability Studies and Biblical Literature by Jeremy Schipper; Candida R. Moss
Call Number: BS 680.P435 D57 2011
The primary aim of this volume is to synthesize the two fields of disability studies and biblical studies. It illustrates how academic or critical biblical scholarship has shown that many texts involving disability in the Bible is much more nuanced than a casual reading or isolated proof texting may indicate.
Disability Studies and the Hebrew Bible: Figuring Mephibosheth in the David Story by Jeremy Schipper
Call Number: BS 1199.A25 S35 2006
Informed by exciting developments in its field, this book argues that the David Story employs disability imagery as a subtle mode of narrating and organizing various ideological positions regarding national identity.
Disability in the Hebrew Bible: Interpreting Mental and Physical Differences by Saul M. Olyan
Call Number: BS 1199.A25 O49 2008
This study will help the reader gain a deeper and more subtle understanding of the ways in which biblical writers constructed hierarchically significant difference and privileged certain groups (e.g. persons with 'whole' bodies) over others (e.g. persons with physical 'defects').
Disability and the Way of Jesus by Bethany McKinney Fox
Call Number: BS 2555.6.H4 F69 2019
Bethany McKinney Fox believes that Christian communities are better off when people with disabilities are an integral part of our common life. In Disability and the Way of Jesus, she considers how the stories of Jesus' healings can guide us toward mutual thriving.

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BS 680 .P435 (Bible and People with Disabilities)
BS 1199 .A25 (Old Testament and People with Disabilities)