On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm looking for analyses of how disability is represented in the Bible. Can
> anyone direct me to this information?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Beth
>
> Beth Omansky Gordon
> The George Washington University
> Washington, D.C., USA
Abrams, Judith. Judaism and Disability: Portrayals in Ancient Texts from
the Tanach through the Bavli (Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University
Press, 1998).
Bishop, M. (1995). Religion and disability : essays in Scripture,
theology, and ethics. Kansas City, MO, Sheed & Ward.
Fontaine, C. (1996). Disabilities and Illness in the Bible: A Feminist
Perspective. A Feminist Companion to the Hebrew Bible in the New
Testament. A. Brenner (ed). Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press: 286-300.
Grant, C. (1998). Reinterpreting the Healing Narratives. In Eiesland,
Nancy L., and Don E. Saliers, eds. Human Disability and the Service of
God: Reassessing Religious Practice (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1998), 72-87.
Hess, J.P. and Wollstein, S. (1964) The attitude of the ancient Jewish
sources to mental patients. Israel Annals of Psychiatry, Vol. 2, 103-16.
Kee, Howard Clark. Medicine, Miracle, and Magic in New Testament Times.
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986).
Kokaska, Charles J., et al. (1984) Disabled people in the Bible.
Rehabilitation Literature, Vol. 45, Nos. 1-2, 20-21.
Kremers, Edward. (1911) Christ the healer; some rare materials and quaint
old pictures. Chicago: Open Court Publishing Co.
Levin, S. (1957) Crippling disorders in the Bible. South African Medical
Journal, Vol. 31, 16-17.
Leviticus chapter 21, verses 17-24, in English translation see e.g. J.H.
Hertz, ed, The Pentateuch and Haftorahs. Hebrew text, English Translation
and Commentary (London: Soncino), 514-5.
Preuss, Julius. Biblical and Talmudic Medicine. Translated from German by
Fred Rosner. (New York: Sanhedrin Press, 1978, originally published 1911).
e.g. 206-9, malformations of head, injuries of spinal cord, injuries and
malformations of the mouth; 230-8, physical impairments, disabilities,
prostheses etc.; 270-80, blindness in practice and in law; 289-293,
deafness; 299-320, mental and neurological disorders.
Short, Arthur. (1953) The Bible and modern medicine: a survey of health
and healing in the Old and New Testaments. London: Paternoster Press.
Weinberg, Nancy, and Carol Sebian. "The Bible and Disability."
Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin 23, no. 4, (June 1980).
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