Autism and Biblical Studies: Establishing and Extending the Field beyond Preliminary Reflection

This article considers core issues of practice, method and hermeneutics, as they bear upon the development a scholarly field concerned with “Autism Biblical Studies.” A small body scholarship has begun to bring biblical studies into dialogue research autism, reflect on pertinent methodological issues; this acknowledges preliminary character reflects what might be necessary for emergent area interest established mature research. The extending discussion incorporate range sub-disciplines, each operating different “identifications” material, is crucial this, careful use insights from postcolonial ideological critical approaches. Pivotally, however, must also shaped led by those who are themselves autistic, so that autism properly subject not merely object