Loving Our Own Bones
Rethinking disability in an ableist world
$49.27
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
9 January 2024
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399804240 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1399804243 |
| Author: | Julia Watts Belser |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 9 January 2024 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 212mm x 134mm x 24mm |
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About The Author
Julia Watts Belser
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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