Sickness and healing /
Seybold, Klaus,
Sickness and healing / [print] Klaus Seybold and Ulrich B. Mueller ; translated by Douglas W. Stott. - Nashville : Abingdon, (c)1981. - 205 pages ; 22 cm. - Biblical encounters series . - Biblical encounters series. .
Translation of: Krankheit und Heilung.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: Sickness as problem and as motif in the biblical tradition -- A. Old Testament. I. The situation of the sick person in Israel and its near-Eastern environment : framework and background -- Language -- Role -- Institutions -- The medical arts -- The Canaanite environment -- Mesopotamia -- Egypt -- Influences during the later period -- II. Statements concerning sickness in the Old Testament literature : available texts -- Narrative literature -- Psalms -- Wisdom literature -- Prophecy -- Theological statements -- III. Particular cases of sickness : concretizations -- "Leprosy" -- King Saul -- Ezekiel -- The suffering servant (Isaiah ch. 53) -- The case of Job -- IV. Preliminary steps toward an Old Testament -- The patriarchal faith in God -- The fundamental confession : "Yahweh, your Savior" -- Views concerning the sickness and healing of a people and of an individual -- Structure and criticism of the paradigm -- The conflict with medicine and exorcism -- Open questions on the periphery of the Old Testament -- B. New Testament. I. Sickness and healing in the New Testament milieu -- The Greek sphere -- The Jewish sphere -- II. Jesus' understanding of sickness and healing -- Methods, preliminary considerations -- Jesus' exorcism of demons in the inbreaking kingdom of God -- Jesus' healings of sickness -- Sickness as the consequence of sin -- Historical reminiscence regarding Jesus' healings in the miracle stories -- III. Frequent sickness in the New Testament miracle stories -- Possession -- So-called leprosy -- Blindness -- Paralysis -- IV. The understanding of sickness and healing in the New Testament miracle stories -- The understanding of healing in the exorcisms -- The understanding of sickness and healing in the therapies -- Healing and faith -- Sickness and sin, healing and the forgiveness of sins -- Jesus Christ as Lord over sickness in the gospel portrayals -- V. Paul's illness -- Virgin Islands Healings in the early church -- Biblical concern with sickness as a theological problem : encounters.
9780687384440
81003663
Healing in the Bible.
Medicine in the Bible.
BS680 BS680.M958.S535 1981
Sickness and healing / [print] Klaus Seybold and Ulrich B. Mueller ; translated by Douglas W. Stott. - Nashville : Abingdon, (c)1981. - 205 pages ; 22 cm. - Biblical encounters series . - Biblical encounters series. .
Translation of: Krankheit und Heilung.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: Sickness as problem and as motif in the biblical tradition -- A. Old Testament. I. The situation of the sick person in Israel and its near-Eastern environment : framework and background -- Language -- Role -- Institutions -- The medical arts -- The Canaanite environment -- Mesopotamia -- Egypt -- Influences during the later period -- II. Statements concerning sickness in the Old Testament literature : available texts -- Narrative literature -- Psalms -- Wisdom literature -- Prophecy -- Theological statements -- III. Particular cases of sickness : concretizations -- "Leprosy" -- King Saul -- Ezekiel -- The suffering servant (Isaiah ch. 53) -- The case of Job -- IV. Preliminary steps toward an Old Testament -- The patriarchal faith in God -- The fundamental confession : "Yahweh, your Savior" -- Views concerning the sickness and healing of a people and of an individual -- Structure and criticism of the paradigm -- The conflict with medicine and exorcism -- Open questions on the periphery of the Old Testament -- B. New Testament. I. Sickness and healing in the New Testament milieu -- The Greek sphere -- The Jewish sphere -- II. Jesus' understanding of sickness and healing -- Methods, preliminary considerations -- Jesus' exorcism of demons in the inbreaking kingdom of God -- Jesus' healings of sickness -- Sickness as the consequence of sin -- Historical reminiscence regarding Jesus' healings in the miracle stories -- III. Frequent sickness in the New Testament miracle stories -- Possession -- So-called leprosy -- Blindness -- Paralysis -- IV. The understanding of sickness and healing in the New Testament miracle stories -- The understanding of healing in the exorcisms -- The understanding of sickness and healing in the therapies -- Healing and faith -- Sickness and sin, healing and the forgiveness of sins -- Jesus Christ as Lord over sickness in the gospel portrayals -- V. Paul's illness -- Virgin Islands Healings in the early church -- Biblical concern with sickness as a theological problem : encounters.
9780687384440
81003663
Healing in the Bible.
Medicine in the Bible.
BS680 BS680.M958.S535 1981