Healing in the New Testament: Insights from Medical and Mediterranean Anthropology

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Healing in the New Testament: Insights from Medical and Mediterranean Anthropology

Name: Healing in the New Testament: Insights from Medical and Mediterranean Anthropology
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ISBN: 9780800631789

By: John J. Pilch

Augsburg Fortress / 1999 / Paperback

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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 ancient Judeans understood healing, what roles healers played, and the different emphases on healing among 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.

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Title: Healing in the New Testament: Insights from Medical and Mediterranean Anthropology
By: John J. Pilch
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 176
Vendor: Augsburg Fortress
Publication Date: 1999

Dimensions: 9 X 6 (inches)
Weight: 10 ounces
ISBN: 0800631781
ISBN-13: 9780800631789
Stock No: WW631781

Publisher's Description

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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

Features a complementary web-site with additional resources

Author Bio

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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.