Epilepsy as Punishment from God: A Disability Reading of 2 and 3 Maccabees
A surprising consensus among scholars working on 3 Maccabees is that the story of Philopator’s supernatural intervention appears strikingly similar to an epileptic seizure. Likewise, the same observations have been made by others about Heliodorus’s episode in 2 Maccabees. Surprisingly, none of these...
| Published in: | Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Sheffield
2024-10-01
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| Online Access: | https://jibs.hcommons.org/2024/10/24/epilepsy-as-punishment-from-god-a-disability-reading-of-2-and-3-maccabees/ |