A spiritual companion and political manifesto that cuts through objectification and inspiration alike to offer a powerful new account of disability in biblical narrative and contemporary culture.
A spiritual companion and political manifesto that cuts through objectification and inspiration alike to offer a powerful new account of disability in biblical narrative and contemporary culture.
Julia Watts Belser is a rabbi, scholar, and spiritual teacher, as well as a longtime activist for disability, LGBTQ and gender justice. She is a professor of Jewish Studies in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown University and core faculty in Georgetown's Disability Studies Program, as well as a senior research fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. Author of Rabbinic Tales of Destruction, among other scholarly books, she has held faculty fellowships at Harvard Divinity School and the Katz Center for Advanced Jewish Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She's also an avid wheelchair hiker and a lover of wild places.
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CHAPTER ONE Claiming Disability CHAPTER TWO Grappling with the Bible: Gender, Disability, and God CHAPTER THREE Hiddenness and Visibility: Passing and Presenting as Disabled CHAPTER FOUR Ableism: The Social-Political Dimension of Disability CHAPTER FIVE Priestly Blemishes: Talking Back to the Bible’s Ideal Bodies CHAPTER SIX Moses: Portrait of a Disabled Prophet CHAPTER SEVEN The Land You Cannot Enter: Longing, Loss, and Other Inaccessible Terrain CHAPTER EIGHT The Perils of Healing CHAPTER NINE Isaac’s Blindness: The Complexity of Trust CHAPTER TEN Jacob and the Angel: Wheels, Wings, and the Brilliance of Disability Difference CHAPTER ELEVEN The Politics of Beauty: Disability and Desire CHAPTER TWELVE The Radical Practice of Rest: Shabbat Values and Disability Justice CHAPTER THIRTEEN God on Wheels: Disability Theology Glossary of Jewish Terms Acknowledgments A Note on Translation Notes Index
CHAPTER ONE Claiming Disability CHAPTER TWO Grappling with the Bible: Gender, Disability, and God CHAPTER THREE Hiddenness and Visibility: Passing and Presenting as Disabled CHAPTER FOUR Ableism: The Social-Political Dimension of Disability CHAPTER FIVE Priestly Blemishes: Talking Back to the Bible’s Ideal Bodies CHAPTER SIX Moses: Portrait of a Disabled Prophet CHAPTER SEVEN The Land You Cannot Enter: Longing, Loss, and Other Inaccessible Terrain CHAPTER EIGHT The Perils of Healing CHAPTER NINE Isaac’s Blindness: The Complexity of Trust CHAPTER TEN Jacob and the Angel: Wheels, Wings, and the Brilliance of Disability Difference CHAPTER ELEVEN The Politics of Beauty: Disability and Desire CHAPTER TWELVE The Radical Practice of Rest: Shabbat Values and Disability Justice CHAPTER THIRTEEN God on Wheels: Disability Theology Glossary of Jewish Terms Acknowledgments A Note on Translation Notes Index
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