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People with disabilities have experienced varying degrees of acceptance throughoutrecorded history.2 This paper articulates that modern societies tend to discriminateagainst people with disabilities whom they perceive as incapacitated to do whatnon-disabled people can do. Not many biblical scholars have attempted toappropriate Mephibosheth’s deformity with disability phenomena in our modernsociety today. This article argues that the biblical narrative about Mephibotheth’sdeformity should inform members of the public to be proactive by respondingpositively to people with disabilities in our modern society. The narrative is rereadfrom a pastoral hermeneutical perspective in which a social model of disability isemployed to explore the ambivalence associated with disability in our society today.In the final analysis, I will make recommendations towards emancipation of peoplewith disabilities.

REREADING THE DAVID-MEPHIBOSHETH NARRATIVE FROM A PASTORAL HERMENEUTICAL PERSPECTIVE: A SOCIAL MODEL