Shamanism and Healing Experts: Notes on Healing in the Old Testament

This essay argues that evidence suggests that shamanistic-type healing experts were found in ancient Israel, and that the kind of healing rituals show similarities to other such shamanistic practices in other contexts. Hebrew Scriptures provides evidence for a range of designations for such persons...

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Main Author: Gerstenberger, Ehrhard S. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2019]
In: Religion & theology
Year: 2019, Volume: 26, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 216-232
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Old Testament / Healer / Babylonia / Literature / Healing / Ritual / Navajo / Shamanism
RelBib Classification:BB Indigenous religions
BC Ancient Orient; religion
HB Old Testament
Further subjects:B Navajo healing chants
B Shamanism
B Sumero-Babylonian healing rites
B healing experts
B supplications for health in the Psalter
B expert mediation
B illness in the Old Testament
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