Sickness and Healing

Following some methodological remarks the chapter briefly reviews the vocabulary of sickness used in the biblical Hebrew text. It then examines instances of sickness and healing that are described in the Hebrew Bible, in order to establish how sickness is understood and how ritual might therefore re...

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Main Author: Rooke, Deborah W. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2020
In: The Oxford handbook of ritual and worship in the Hebrew Bible
Year: 2020, Pages: 311-325
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)