Description
Israel's Diving Healer is the first complete, systematic treatment of the biblical motif of God as "Divine Healer." It traces the theme of the Divine Healer from the Old to the New Testament, showing the continuity and discontinuity between the Testaments, particularly in Jesus' miracles that reveal God as the world's Divine Healer. Israel's Divine Healer begins with a study of various Hebrew words on healing. It then explores, within the larger context of the Ancient Near Eastern religions, the roles of medicine, magic, and the physician-priest together with their possible influences upon Israel's beliefs and practices regarding healing. Against this background, the remaining chapters examine, from the Torah to the Gospels, how Yahweh progressively revealed himself as Divine Healer to Israel and ultimately, through Jesus, to the whole of humanity.
About the Author
Dr. Michael L. Brown (Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Literature, New York University) serves as the Director of Spiritual Renewal and Apologetics at the Jerusalem Bible Institute. He is also the host of the nationally syndicated Line of Fire radio broadcast and podcast. A prolific author, Dr. Brown has written more than fifty books, including the acclaimed Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus. As a Jewish believer in Jesus, he has been in dialogue with rabbis and Jewish scholars for decades, in addition to lecturing in churches and seminaries worldwide.
- Product Details
- Page Count: 464
- Format: Softcover
- ISBN: 9780310200291
- Release: August 22, 1995