Towards a Renewed Biblical Understanding of Health and Healing: A Prophetic Response

Biblical Hermeneutics Rediscovered

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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 the notion that health and healing is not just physical but it was also emotional, relational, spiritual, and ecological. Therefore, the prophetic literatures are not just important for the study in their own context but are also extremely relevant to our time and context where relationships are broken, ecological crisis is at high risk, injustice prevails, violence and fear grips the health of the individual and the community. All the three prophetic books: Hosea, Isaiah and Jeremiah are structured in such manner so as to underscore God’s overarching healing love. Each book not only directly presents God as seeking health and healing, but also in its overall structure makes clear that the portrayal of anger and wrath is serving a rhetorical strategy meant to foster trust in the people a loving, patient, and healing God. This book is a treat for those who are willing to amplify their radius of understanding illness, health and healing from a `different’ yet relevant perspective.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Atula Ao

Dr. Atula Ao (Tsuedir) is from the Ao-Baptist Church of Nagaland and a native of Mokokchung, Nagaland. She did her theological education under the Senate of Serampore College (University), and holds a Doctorate in Old Testament studies for her research on - "Towards a Renewed Understanding of Health in Light of the Concept of Rapha, Shalom, and Marpe with Reference to Select Passages in the Prophetic Oracles of Hosea, Isaiah and Jeremiah." Earlier she served as a theological educator in Nagaland, Karnataka (Bangarpet and Bangalore), and Visakhapatnam. Currently she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Old Testament at Allahabad Bible Seminary (Serampore University), Allahabad. She also serves in the Executive Committee of Society for Biblical Studies in India (SBSI) as the Treasurer. She has contributed immensely through her writings in many journals and books published both nationally and internationally. She is married to Dr. Samuel George from Jammu & Kashmir, a Professor of Christian Theology.

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Title
Towards a Renewed Biblical Understanding of Health and Healing: A Prophetic Response
Biblical Hermeneutics Rediscovered
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Edition
1st. ed.
Publisher
ISBN
9351482278, 9789351482277
Length
xviii+244p., 25cm.
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