Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dube, Zorodzai

Titel

Aretalogy of the best healer : performance and praise of Mark’s healing Jesus

Ist Teil von

• Hervormde teologiese studies, 2018, Vol.74 (1), p.1-9

Ort / Verlag

Pretoria: AOSIS

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The study proposes a link between Mark’s healing stories in chapter 1 and praise songs and/ or poems performed at Apollo’s temple and other possible shrines of Asclepius in Southern Antioch. Mark chapter 1 begins with Jesus healing the demoniac (Mk 1:21–28), healing of Simon’s mother in law (Mk 1:29–31) and healing of various peoples who gathered at Simon’s mother-in-law’s house (Mk 1:32–34) and people from the region and afar (Mk 13:39). The chapter finishes with the controversial healing of the leper (1:40–45). Assuming that Mark is located in Southern Antioch, with analogies from Zulu praise poems, this study reread Mark’s healing stories alongside Greek aretalogies with a view to reveal the function and mood around which the stories were told and/or performed. As hypothesis, Mark’s healing stories exudes similar characteristics as Greek aretalogies, praising the benefactor (Jesus) vis-? -vis known healers such as Apollo and Asclepius.