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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Brill
[2019]
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| 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
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| 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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