Healing in the New Testament

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"How are we to read and understand stories about 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 ancient Judeans and earliest followers of Jesus understood healing, what roles healers played, and the different emphases on healing among the gospels. In his comparative analysis, the author draws on Mediterranean anthropology as well as the models employed by medical anthropologists to open the world of peasant societies and their healthcare systems."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Bible,  Criticism, interpretation,  Christianity,  Healing in the Bible,  Health,  History of doctrines,  Religious aspects of Health,  Medical anthropology,  Evangelien,  Guérison dans la Bible,  Guérison,  Religion and Medicine,  Aspect religieux,  "Bible. NT",  Critique, interprétation,  Gebedsgenezing,  Nieuwe Testament,  Medicine in Literature,  Medizinische Anthropologie,  11.47 cultural-historical background of the New Testament,  Heilung,  Wunderheilung,  Enseignement biblique,  Anthropologie médicale,  Maladies,  Anthropology,  Neues Testament,  Jesus Christus,  Littérature latine,  Littérature grecque antique,  Christianisme,  Santé,  Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc., n. t.,  Health, religious aspects,  Religious aspects

Times: Early church, ca. 30-600