Healing in the New Testament
Insights from Medical and Mediterranean Anthropology
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Healing in the New Testament: Insights from Medical and Mediterranean Anthropology
How are we to read and understand stories of
Jesus healing the lame, deaf, blind, and
those with a variety of other maladies?
Pilch takes us beyond the historical and
literary questions to examine the social
questions of how the earliest followers of
Jesus and ancient Judeans understood
healing, what roles healers played, and the
different emphases on healing among the
gospels. In his comparative analysis, the
author draws on the anthropology of the
Mediterranean as well as the models employed
by medical anthropologists to understand
peasant societies and their health-care
systems.
- Utilizes social-science
models
- Features a complementary web- site with additional resources
- Publisher Fortress Press
- Format Paperback
- ISBN 9780800631789
- Dimensions 6 x 9
- Pages 200
- Publication Date January 18, 2000
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments
- Basic Perspectives: Healing and Curing
- Medical Anthropology: Sickness and Disease
- Selecting an Appropriate Model: Leprosy—A Test Case
- Healing in Mark
- Healing in Matthew
- Healing in Luke—Acts
- Healing in John
Conclusion
Discussion Questions
Glossary
General Bibliography
Scripture Index
Introduction