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Anna Rebecca started following the work of Jonas Bjornebye, University of Oslo, The Norwegian Institute in Rome.
Post-Doc, Biblical Studies
Thesis Title: Birthing Salvation. Salvation and Childbearing in Early Christian Discourse
About
In my current research I am studying representations of disability in early Christian texts. My postdoc project is called “Bodily Im/perfection. Negotiating the Broken Body in Early Christian Discourse”. This research project studies how early Christian texts represent bodies that are somehow injured or impaired.
Healing is an important theme in early Christian narratives, and healing stories is an important focus of this study. What was the place of injured or imparied bodies in a religion so focused on healing? Is there, in the texts, a connection between sin and disability?
I also investigate the connection between ideas about the body/disability in these texts and the development of Christian theology, e.g. ideas about the incarnation and the broken body of Christ, and ideas about the post-resurrection body.
Perspectives from disability studies, gender studies and race/ethnic studies are combined in the analysis of the texts. Building on Foucault’s notion of discourse, I examine how early Christian texts participate in and renegotiate Greco-Roman and Jewish discourses on body, health and disability.
