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HEALING IN THE NEW TESTAMENT by John Pilch ($20)*

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AUGS: 0-8006-3178-1

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 and features a complementary web-site with additional resources
Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction

  • 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

    John J. Pilch, Ph.D., teaches Scripture at Georgetown University as well as at the University of Pretoria. His other publications include: The Cultural World of the Apostles: The Second Reading, Sunday by Sunday, Year A; The Cultural World of Jesus series; The Triduum and Easter Sunday: Breaking Open the Scriptures; The Cultural Dictionary of the Bible; Choosing a Bible Translation; Galatians and Romans in The Collegeville Bible Commentary; and articles in The Modern Catholic Encyclopedia, The Collegeville Pastoral Dictionary of Biblical Theology, and The Bible Today.

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