Medicine, Miracle and Magic in New Testament Times
Medicine, Miracle and Magic in New Testament Times

Author: Howard Clark Kee

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1988-11-17

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780521368186

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This book illustrates in detail the range of understandings of the human condition in New Testament times and remedies for ills that prevailed when Jesus and the apostles were spreading the Christian message and launching Christian communities in the Graeco-Roman world.

Miracle and Magic
Miracle and Magic

Author: Andy Reimer

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2002-12-01

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0567008843

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Miracle-workers and magicians are diffcult characters for contemporary readers of Greco-Roman narratives to comprehend and to distinguish. Hindered both by our modern definitions of "miracle" and "magic," we need to focus our attention on those ancient texts that deal with such characters and their differentiation. Two such texts, the Acts of the Apostles and Philostratus' Life of Apollonius, come from quite different religious backgrounds, but demonstrate remarkably similar subtle cultural scripts at play. A detailed investigation of the social interactions in these two narrative worlds brings these characters and their communities alive and reveals how legitimate miracle-workers were distinguished from illegitimate magicians by the Mediterranean population of the Greco-Roman world.

Medicine, Miracle, and Myth in the New Testament
Medicine, Miracle, and Myth in the New Testament

Author: J. Keir Howard

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2010-02-08

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 1608992446

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Did Jesus really restore sight to blind people? How are we to understand the stories of demon possession? What are we to make of the virgin birth? What was Paul's thorn in the flesh? These and many similar questions often arise in people's minds as they read the New Testament, and there are few places for the general reader to look to find the answers; even ministers and students find it difficult to access useful and up-to-date information. Commentaries on the New Testament rarely pay much attention to the diagnosis of the illnesses mentioned in the Gospels and elsewhere, and the technical discussions that occasionally appear in medical and other journals are not easy to access. Medicine, Miracle, and Myth in the New Testament is an attempt to bridge these gaps for the general reader as well as for students, ministers, and preachers, and even doctors, in order to provide a coherent interpretation of the New Testament data that meets the criteria of modern medical science. Most attention is paid to the narratives of healing in the Gospels and Acts, as it is important to be able to provide, as far as possible, a reasonable diagnosis of the conditions which Jesus met in his day to day ministry. The application of modern insights into these stories would suggest that Jesus acted as a prophetic folk healer in the tradition of the Old Testament prophets such as Elijah and Elisha, and this provides one important facet of his ministry. Other subjects on which medical science has an important bearing, such as the problems associated with the stories of the virginal conception of Jesus, the possible cause of his death on the cross, and the nature of Paul's thorn in the flesh, for example, are also discussed, thus providing a comprehensive and intelligible outline of medical matters in the New Testament.

Miracles of Jesus
Miracles of Jesus

Author: Loos

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2014-04-09

Total Pages: 765

ISBN-13: 9004265864

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Preliminary Material /H. Van der loos -- I. A Miracles as religious phenomena /H. Van der loos -- II. Miracles and science /H. Van der loos -- III. Miracles and medicine /H. Van der loos -- I. Type and style of the miracle stories in the gospels /H. Van der loos -- II. Magical and miraculous practices of the jews in Jesus' day /H. Van der loos -- III. The miracles of Jesus in the oldest testimonies /H. Van der loos -- IV. Jewish opinions on Jesus' miracles /H. Van der loos -- I. Jesus' miraculous power /H. Van der loos -- II. Function and significance of miracles in Jesus' activities /H. Van der loos -- III. Relations involved in the miracles of Jesus /H. Van der loos -- IV. Jesus' activities as healer /H. Van der loos -- V. Jesus' methods of treatment /H. Van der loos -- I. The healing of the possessed /H. Van der loos -- II. The healing of the blind /H. Van der loos -- III. The healing of the paralytics /H. Van der loos -- IV. The healing of the lepers /H. Van der loos -- V. The healing of a man with dropsy /H. Van der loos -- VI. The healing of the woman with the issue of blood /H. Van der loos -- VII. The healing of the woman bowed together /H. Van der loos -- VIII. The healing of the deaf man with a speech defect /H. Van der loos -- IX. The healing of the centurion's servant at capernaum and of the Nobleman's son /H. Van der loos -- X. The healing of Peter's mother-in-law /H. Van der loos -- XI. The healing Of Malchus' ear /H. Van der loos -- XII. The resurrection of the dead /H. Van der loos -- XIII. The Miracle At the wedding at cana /H. Van der loos -- XIV. The miraculous feeding /H. Van der loos -- XV. The stilling of the storm /H. Van der loos -- XVI. Jesus' walking on the water /H. Van der loos -- XVII. The miraculous catches of fish /H. Van der loos -- XVIII. The account of the stater /H. Van der loos -- XIX. The cursing of the fig tree /H. Van der loos -- Bibliography /H. Van der loos -- Text index /H. Van der loos -- Index of authors' names /H. Van der loos.