Healing in the New Testament
insights from medical and mediterranean anthropology
$51.86
- Paperback
200 pages
- Release Date
17 January 2000
Summary
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 empl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780800631789 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0800631781 |
| Author: | John J. Pilch |
| Publisher: | Augsburg Fortress Publishers |
| Imprint: | Augsburg Fortress |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 17 January 2000 |
| Weight: | 318g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
John J. Pilch
John J. Pilchteaches at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Among his numerous publications are The Cultural World of Jesus: Sunday by Sunday (1995-97), The Cultural Dictionary of the Bible (1999), and Healing in the New Testament (2000). Malina and Pilch have co-authored the Social Science Commentary on the Book of Acts (2008) and the Social-Science Commentary on the Letters of Paul (2005), both from Fortress Press.
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