The Woman with the Blood Flow (Mark 5:24-34): Narrative, Iconic, and Anthropological Spaces

by Barbara Baert

This publication starts from a particular passage in the New Testament that tells the story of a woman with an issue of blood. The gospel relates how the so-called Haemorrhoissa is healed the very moment she touches Christ's garment. This publication forms the first - and so far the only - interdisciplinary study of this particular biblical motif from an exegetical, art-historical and anthropological point of view. Contributing scholars interpret...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042929642
• ISBN13: 9789042929647
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 445 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 10.1"