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This book examines the different interpretations of the understanding of illness, health and healing by the Biblical (Old Testament) Prophets in order to address the issues related to these concepts in our contemporary context.
The prophetic literatures of the pre-exilic, exilic and post-exilic times were corrective, subversive alternative to the pre-dominant idea that health and healing were something very physical. However, the prophetic understanding corrected ...
This book meticulously addresses the issue of `Feminist/Womanist Identities' and `Biblical Hermeneutics'; and there mutual impact on each other. The author picks up constructed identity of two women in the biblical narrative, to analyse it from the prism of women's identity formation, which in this case is a pure patriarchal construction. The story of the book of Esther is: the `vamp' - Vashti, versus the `ideal' - Esther. The book of Esther is a vivid reflection ...