Medicine, miracle, and magic in New Testament times
by Howard Clark Kee
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This book sketches and illustrates in detail the range of understandings of the human condition and remedies for ills that prevailed when Jesus and the apostles - as well as their successors - were spreading the Christian message and launching Christian communities in the Graeco-Roman world. Healing played so prominent a part in Jesus' ministry as depicted in the New Testament that it is important to understand that aspect of his appeal in the context of the ways in which it was understood by Greeks, Romans and Jews of the time. Some saw sickness as the result of magic performed against the victims by enemies, others as the work of demons. Some saw health as the result of ordering life according to nature, emphasising the beneficial effects of natural substances. Jewish attitudes, for example, ranged widely over the centuries from hostility towards physicians to regard for them as men endowed by God with special knowledge for human benefit. -
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Greek and Roman Medicine, Medicine in the Bible, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric, Miracles, Genezing, Magie, Guérison dans la Bible, Religion and Medicine, Wonderen, Bibel, Dans la Bible, Bible, Nieuwe Testament, Médecine dans la Bible, Médecine grecque et romaine, Criticism, interpretation, Medizin, Healing in the Bible, Neues Testament, Médecine magique, mystique et spagirique, Mirakel, Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc., n. t., Medicine in the bible, Medicine, ancient, Medicine, greek and roman, Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc.| Edition | Availability |
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Medicine, Miracle and Magic in New Testament Times
March 28, 1996, Cambridge University Press
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0521362636 9780521362634
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Medicine, miracle, and magic in New Testament times
1986, Cambridge University Press
in English
0521323096 9780521323093
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Bibliography: p. [146]-151.
Includes indexes.
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