Israel's Divine Healer

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ISBN: 9780310200291 | 0310200296
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 9/1/1995

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Israel's Diving Healer is the first complete, systematic treatment of the biblical motif of God as "Divine Healer." It traces the theme of the Divine Healer from the Old to the New Testament, showing the continuity and discontinuity between the Testaments, particularly in Jesus' miracles that reveal God as the world's Divine Healer. Israel's Divine Healer begins with a study of various Hebrew words on healing. It then explores, within the larger context of the Ancient Near Eastern religions, the roles of medicine, magic, and the physician-priest together with their possible influences upon Israel's beliefs and practices regarding healing. Against this background, the remaining chapters examine, from the Torah to the Gospels, how Yahweh progressively revealed himself as Divine Healer to Israel and ultimately, through Jesus, to the whole of humanity.

Contents
Preface to Series
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
0.1. Purpose
0.2. Methodology
0.3. The Old Testament Language of Healing
0.3.1. The Root rampam’: Lexical and Etymological Discussion
0.3.2. The Root rampam’: Old Testament Usage and Meaning
0.3.3. The Old Testament Language of Healing: Additional Vocabulary
0.4. The Old Testament Terminology for Sickness
0.5. A Note on the Literature Cited
1. Human Physicians and Healing Deities
1.1. Introduction and General
1.2. Human Physicians
1.2.1. Human Physicians in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
1.2.2. Human Physicians in Canaan and Israel
1.3. Healing Deities
1.3.1. Healing Deities in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
1.3.2. Healing Deities in Ancient Syria-Canaan
1.3.3. Asklepios/Aesculapius
1.4. A Sampling of Jewish and Christian Views on Human and Divine Healing
1.4.1.Jewish Views
1.4.2. Christian Views
2. Israel’s Divine Healer in the Torah and Historical Books
2.1. Introduction: One God, One Healer
2.2. Foundations in the Torah
2.2.1 Exodus 15:26
2.2.2. Blessings and Curses
2.2.3.The Promise of Long Life
2.2.4. The Promise of Fertility
2.2.5. Deuteronomy 32:39 and Divine Smiting and Healing in the Torah
2.2.6. Infectious “Scale Diseases” and Sin in the Torah and Historical Books
2.2.7. Exodus 4:10–12
2.3. Divine Smiting and Healing in the Historical Books
2.3.1. Sickness as a Curse/Judgment Act in the Historical Books
2.3.2. Prophetic Healing in the Historical Books
2.3.3. 2 Kings 18:4 and neh.umshtamn
2.3.4.The Root rampam’ in 1 Kings 18:30; 2 Kings 2:21–22; 2 Chronicles 7:14; 30:20
3. Israel’s Divine Healer in Poetry and Wisdom Literature
3.1. The Book of Psalms
3.1.1. Sickness and Healing in the Psalms: Overview
3.1.2. The Classification of the Psalms of Sickness and Healing
3.1.3. Characteristic Elements of the Psalms of Sickness and Healing
3.1.4. The Physical, Emotional, Spiritual, and Social Condition of the Seriously Ill Petitioner
3.1.5. Sin, Sickness, and the “Enemies”
3.1.6. “One Foot in the Grave”
3.1.7. “The Living, the Living—They Praise You” (Isaiah 38:19a)
3.1.8. Sickness as Chastisement
3.1.9. The Healer of All Diseases (Psalms 103; 146; 147)
3.1.10. Psalm 91: A Psalm of Divine Protection
3.1.11. The Psalms of Sickness and Healing in the Life and Liturgy of Israel
3.2. The Book of Proverbs
3.2.1. Wisdom as the Path of Life and Health
3.2.2. Proverbs 3:7–8
3.2.3. marpem’ and ’ên marpem’: “Healing, Remedy, Cure” and “Without Healing, Remedy, Cure”
3.2.4. Further Psychosomatic Observations
3.3. The Book of Job
3.3.1. Overview
3.3.2. The Main Players
3.3.3. Epilogue: The Moral of the Story
3.4. The Book of Ecclesiastes
4. Israel’s Divine Healer in the Prophetic Books
4.1. The Prophets and the Restoration of Israel
4.1.1. “Sin-Sick” Israel and Its “Healing”
4.1.2. “Healing” in Hosea
4.1.3. “Healing” in Jeremiah
4.1.4. “Healing” in Isaiah
4.1.5. Faithless Shepherds and the “Healing” of the Flock
4.2. The Final “Healing” of the Nations and Israel
4.2.1 The Prophets and the Nations
4.2.2. Israel’s Eschatological “Healing”
5. Israel’s Divine Healer in the New Testament
5.1. Old Testament Healing and New Testament Healing
5.1.1. Continuity and Discontinuity
5.1.2. The New Testament Vocabulary of Healing
5.2. Aspects of the Healing Ministry of Jesus the Messiah
5.2.1. Healing and the Kingdom of God
5.2.2. Healing and the Eschatological Jubilee
5.2.3. Healing and the Holy Spirit
5.2.4. Healing and the Sabbath
5.2.5. Healing and Compassion
5.2.6. Healing and Faith
5.2.7. Healing and the Authentication of Jesus as Messiah
5.3.Sickness, Satan, Sin, and Suffering
5.3.1. Sickness and Satan, Demons and Disease
5.3.2. Sickness and Sin
5.3.3. Sickness and Suffering
5.4. Healing in the New Testament as a Paradigm for the Relationship Between the Testaments
6. Conclusions and Reflections
6.1. Summary and Conclusions
6.1.1.Sickness as a Curse; Healing as a Blessing
6.1.2. God as Healer
6.1.3. Doctors and Medical Practice
6.1.4. Sickness, Sin, Chastisement, and Healing
6.1.5. Prophetic Healing and the Kingdom of God
6.1.6. The New Testament Continuum and Fulfillment
6.2. Theological and Practical Reflections
Notes
Select Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index

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