Naaman’s Healing and Gehazi’s Affliction: The Magical Background of 2 Kgs 5
Scholars tend to view the healing of Naaman and the subsequent affliction of Gehazi in 2 Kgs 5 as polemic against magic and non-Israelite ideas about disease and healing. However, in analyzing the motif of צרעת as literary device it can be demonstrated that 2 Kgs 5 is not opposed to magic. My paper...
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Language: | English |
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Brill
2018
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Vetus Testamentum
Year: 2018, Volume: 68, Issue: 4, Pages: 540-555 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Heilung des Aramäers Naaman
/ Ancient Orient
/ Israel (Antiquity)
/ Arameans
/ Miracle story
/ Healing
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RelBib Classification: | HB Old Testament TC Pre-Christian history ; Ancient Near East |
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