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In Matthew, Disability, and Stress: Examining Impaired Characters
in the Context of Empire, Jillian D. Engelhardt examines four
Matthean healing narratives, focusing on the impaired characters in
the scenes. Her reading is informed by both empire studies and
social stress theory, a method that explores how the stress
inherent in social location can affect psychosomatic health. By
examining the Roman imperial context in which common folk lived and
worked, she argues that attention to social and somatic
circumstances, which may have accompanied or caused the described
disabilities/impairments, destabilizes readings of these stories
that suggest the encounter with Jesus was straightforwardly good
and the healing was permanent. Instead, Engelhardt proposes various
new contexts for and offers more nuanced characterizations of the
disabled/impaired people in each discussed scene, resulting in
ambiguous interpretations that de-center Jesus and challenge
able-bodied assumptions about embodiment, disability, and healing.
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