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| #1145485 in Books | John J Pilch | 2000-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x.44 x6.02l,.73 | File type: PDF | 194 pages | Healing in the New Testament Insights from Medical and Mediterranean Anthropology||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Good resource|By Jeff Smoak|Pilch provides helpful anthropological and social models by which to analyze New Testament healing narratives. Readers are challenged to take the ancient culture on its own terms and avoid anachronistic interpretations. Most of Pilch's conclusions and applications are convincing. This is a must have in a biblical background library.|2 of 3 people fo|About the Author|John J. Pilch is Professor of Biblical Studies at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Pilch is also a popular speaker in parishes and at conferences, and he contributes regularly to Biblical Theology Bulletin and The Bible Today.
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...
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