Healing in the New Testament

by John J. Pilch

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800631781
• ISBN13: 9780800631789
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"