Louise J. Lawrence presents provocative re-interpretations of biblical characters that have previously been sidelined and stigmatised on account of their perceived disability. She introduces approaches taken from Sensory Anthropology and Disability Studies to bring fresh methodological perspectives to familiar Gospel texts. this book is a very important contribution to what can be called sensory criticism or corporeal criticism in biblical studies that focuses on the embodied human experience in biblical texts. This book should be read by anyone interested in how sense is both expressed and constructed by biblical authors and by biblical scholars.