Kirsty L. Jones

Kirsty L. Jones

Jones-Kirsty
Kirsty L. Jones is a PhD student at Georgetown University working on disability and the senses in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. She also teaches at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. She is the author of “Home but Not Healed: How the Sensory Profiles of Prophetic Utopian Visions Influence Presentations of Disability,” in Sounding Sensory Profiles in Antiquity (SBL Press, 2019) and “Three Blind Vices? Vision and Blindness in the Samson Cycle” (BibInt 28 [2020]).
The Rylands Haggadah
Samson-blinding-Rembradt

Samson’s Blindness

The way that sight was understood in the ancient Near East affects how we understand Samson’s blindness and its place as punishment.