Health and healing in new testament times: Historical understanding and the health care debate

Abstract

In this article an overview is given of assumptions about health and illness as well as healing practices in the antiquity Mediterranean world, especially the New-Testament era.

Opsomming
'n Oorsigtelike bespreking van opvattinge oor gesondheid en siekte asook van genesingspraktyke in die antieke Mediterreense wereld, veral die Nuwe-Testamentiese era, word in hierdie artikel aangebied.

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