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| Title: Healing in the Second Temple Period Secondary Title: NTOA 21 Type: Book Year: 1992 Abstract: "The revision of a doctoral dissertation directed by D. Flusser and accepted by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1986, this volume investigates attitudes toward healing in the Hebrew Scriptures, the OT Apocrypha (Tobit, Sirach, Widdom), the OT Pseudepigrapha (1 Enoch, Jubilees, Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, Testament of Job, Testament of Shem, ps.-Philo's Biblical Antiquities, Lives of the Prophets, 2 and 4 Maccabees, Dead Sea scrolls, Philo, Josephus), and the NT (Gospels, Paul, James, Revelation). It concludes with general observations about the causes of illness (God, intermediaries, evil spirits, stars, sin), means of healing (faith or prayer; exorcism or apotropaic means; virtuous living; physicians, scientific and folk medecine; magical means), and the justification of healing means". Keywords: Cultural and Religious History of Ancient Judaism |