Abstract
There have been few, if any, exegetically based arguments for why we should interpret biblical characters as non-disabled if the text mentions their involvement in an accident or states that they sustained an injury but does not mention a recovery. Instead, we arrive at such interpretations based on an assumption of non-disability as normative rather than arguments from the text. Using Balaam’s accident in Numbers 22:25 as a test case, this article analyzes the strength of the often unstated reasons for interpreting characters as nondisabled or unimpaired after they experience an accident or injury. We find that these reasons depend more on reading non-disability into the narrative rather on making a textual argument for why we should interpret these characters as unimpaired or nondisabled.
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