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Jesus, the Best Capernaum Folk-Healer

  • Hardback
  • 184 pages
  • Publisher: Pickwick Publications
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

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For theology students and cultural researchers

Explains healing stories as ancient praise songs

Changes how you read Jesus's ministry in Capernaum

A fascinating study of Mark’s Gospel that portrays Jesus as the compassionate folk-healer of Capernaum.

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This book takes the established fields of orality, performance, and first-century Christian healthcare studies further by combining analogues of praise performances to Apollo, Asclepius, and those from the Dondo people of South Eastern Zimbabwe to propose that Jesus's healing stories in Mark's Gospel are praise-giving narratives to Jesus as the best folk healer within the region of Capernaum. The book argues that the memory of Jesus as the folk healer from Capernaum survived and possibly functioned in similar contexts of praise-giving within early Christian households. The book goes through each healing story in Mark's Gospel and imaginatively listens to it through the ears of analogue from praise-giving given to Greek healers/heroes and similar practices among the Dondo people. The power, completeness, and effectiveness in which Jesus healed each of the mentioned conditions provoke praise-giving from the listeners to the best folk healer in the village. In each instance, while Mark is calling for attention to the new healer, more so, he is raving praise-giving.
Jesus, the Best Capernaum Folk-Healer and The Bible and Sociological Contours: Some African Perspectives. Festschrift for Professor Halvor Moxnes
The Bible and Sociological Contours: Some African Perspectives. Festschrift for Professor Halvor MoxnesJesus, the Best Capernaum Folk-Healer

  • Title

    Jesus, the Best Capernaum Folk-Healer

  • Author

    Dube Zorodzai Dube

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Pickwick Publications

  • Published

    November 2020

  • Weight

    418g

  • Page Count

    184

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781725280793

  • ISBN-10

    1725280795

  • Eden Code

    5520356