| |
| |
| Preface to Series | |
| |
| |
| Preface | |
| |
| |
| Abbreviations | |
| |
| |
| Introduction | |
| |
| |
| |
| Purpose | |
| |
| |
| |
| Methodology | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Old Testament Language of Healing | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Root rampam': Lexical and Etymological Discussion | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Root rampam': Old Testament Usage and Meaning | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Old Testament Language of Healing: Additional Vocabulary | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Old Testament Terminology for Sickness | |
| |
| |
| |
| A Note on the Literature Cited | |
| |
| |
| |
| Human Physicians and Healing Deities | |
| |
| |
| |
| Introduction and General | |
| |
| |
| |
| Human Physicians | |
| |
| |
| |
| Human Physicians in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia | |
| |
| |
| |
| Human Physicians in Canaan and Israel | |
| |
| |
| |
| Healing Deities | |
| |
| |
| |
| Healing Deities in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia | |
| |
| |
| |
| Healing Deities in Ancient Syria-Canaan | |
| |
| |
| |
| Asklepios/Aesculapius | |
| |
| |
| |
| A Sampling of Jewish and Christian Views on Human and Divine Healing | |
| |
| |
| |
| Jewish Views | |
| |
| |
| |
| Christian Views | |
| |
| |
| |
| Israel's Divine Healer in the Torah and Historical Books | |
| |
| |
| |
| Introduction: One God, One Healer | |
| |
| |
| |
| Foundations in the Torah 2.2.1 Exodus 15:26 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Blessings and Curses 2.2.3.The Promise of Long Life | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Promise of Fertility | |
| |
| |
| |
| Deuteronomy 32:39 and Divine Smiting and Healing in the Torah | |
| |
| |
| |
| Infectious "Scale Diseases" and Sin in the Torah and Historical Books | |
| |
| |
| |
| Exodus 4:10-12 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Divine Smiting and Healing in the Historical Books | |
| |
| |
| |
| Sickness as a Curse/Judgment Act in the Historical Books | |
| |
| |
| |
| Prophetic Healing in the Historical Books | |
| |
| |
| |
| 2 Kings 18:4 and neh.umshtamn | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Root rampam' in 1 Kings 18:30; 2 Kings 2:21-22; 2 Chronicles 7:14; 30:20 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Israel's Divine Healer in Poetry and Wisdom Literature | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Book of Psalms | |
| |
| |
| |
| Sickness and Healing in the Psalms: Overview | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Classification of the Psalms of Sickness and Healing | |
| |
| |
| |
| Characteristic Elements of the Psalms of Sickness and Healing | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Physical, Emotional, Spiritual, and Social Condition of the Seriously Ill Petitioner | |
| |
| |
| |
| Sin, Sickness, and the "Enemies" | |
| |
| |
| |
| "One Foot in the Grave" | |
| |
| |
| |
| "The Living, the Living-They Praise You" (Isaiah 38:19a) | |
| |
| |
| |
| Sickness as Chastisement | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Healer of All Diseases (Psalms 103; 146; 147) | |
| |
| |
| |
| Psalm 91: A Psalm of Divine Protection | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Psalms of Sickness and Healing in the Life and Liturgy of Israel | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Book of Proverbs | |
| |
| |
| |
| Wisdom as the Path of Life and Health | |
| |
| |
| |
| Proverbs 3:7-8 | |
| |
| |
| |
| marpem' and '+�n marpem': "Healing, Remedy, Cure" and "Without Healing, Remedy, Cure" | |
| |
| |
| |
| Further Psychosomatic Observations | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Book of Job | |
| |
| |
| |
| Overview | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Main Players | |
| |
| |
| |
| Epilogue: The Moral of the Story | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Book of Ecclesiastes | |
| |
| |
| |
| Israel's Divine Healer in the Prophetic Books | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Prophets and the Restoration of Israel | |
| |
| |
| |
| "Sin-Sick" Israel and Its "Healing" | |
| |
| |
| |
| "Healing" in Hosea | |
| |
| |
| |
| "Healing" in Jeremiah | |
| |
| |
| |
| "Healing" in Isaiah | |
| |
| |
| |
| Faithless Shepherds and the "Healing" of the Flock | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Final "Healing" of the Nations and Israel | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Prophets and the Nations | |
| |
| |
| |
| Israel's Eschatological "Healing" | |
| |
| |
| |
| Israel's Divine Healer in the New Testament | |
| |
| |
| |
| Old Testament Healing and New Testament Healing | |
| |
| |
| |
| Continuity and Discontinuity | |
| |
| |
| |
| The New Testament Vocabulary of Healing | |
| |
| |
| |
| Aspects of the Healing Ministry of Jesus the Messiah | |
| |
| |
| |
| Healing and the Kingdom of God | |
| |
| |
| |
| Healing and the Eschatological Jubilee | |
| |
| |
| |
| Healing and the Holy Spirit | |
| |
| |
| |
| Healing and the Sabbath | |
| |
| |
| |
| Healing and Compassion | |
| |
| |
| |
| Healing and Faith | |
| |
| |
| |
| Healing and the Authentication of Jesus as Messiah | |
| |
| |
| |
| Sickness, Satan, Sin, and Suffering | |
| |
| |
| |
| Sickness and Satan, Demons and Disease | |
| |
| |
| |
| Sickness and | |