Medicine, Miracle and Magic in New Testament Times

by Howard Clark Kee

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521368189
• ISBN13: 9780521368186
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"