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dc.contributor.author | M’bwangi, Fednand Manjewa![]() |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-14T11:08:06Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-03-14T11:08:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-08-26 | |
dc.description.abstract | Scholars offer several options for Matthew’s value of the leper’s story in his narrative that range from revealing Jesus’ attributes of compassion and sympathy, manifesting God’s empire, to portraying Jesus’ function as a temple. Although these suggestions aptly portray Matthew’s rhetorical use of the leper’s healing in his narrative to address societal concerns of his time, for lack of referring to the social setting of the narrative, they do not capture the holistic healthcare system embodied by Jesus in Matthew’s narrative that portrays Jesus as a superior healer to the rest of the other healers in the Roman Empire. The findings of the research for this article establish the argument that employing ethnomedical anthropology as a lens to read the leper’s healing narrative in Matthew 8:1–4 in the context of Matthew’s social setting reveals Matthew’s ideology for a transcendent and immanent Christology. The aim of the article is to demonstrate the effectiveness of medical anthropological theory in explaining the dynamics of health and healing reflected in biblical texts. CONTRIBUTIONS : This article contributes to the interdisciplinary approach to the study of religion by employing a ethnomedical anthropological perspective to read the leper’s healing in Matthew 8.1–4 in reference to the first century CE health systems in the Roman Empire. This approach procured that Matthew’s immanent and transcendent perspectives of Christology is crucial in demonstrating the text’s function in constructing and sustaining the identity of Matthew’s community in antiquity. | en_ZA |
dc.description.department | Science of Religion and Missiology | en_ZA |
dc.description.librarian | am2022 | en_ZA |
dc.description.uri | http://www.hts.org.za | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.citation | M’bwangi, F.M., 2021, ‘A reading of the leper’s healing in Matthew 8:1–4 through ethnomedical anthropology’, HTS Teologiese Studies/ Theological Studies 77(1), a6803. https://DOI.org/ 10.4102/hts.v77i1.6803. | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.issn | 0259-9422 (print) | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2072-8050 (online) | |
dc.identifier.other | 10.4102/hts.v77i1.6803 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/84479 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
dc.publisher | OpenJournals Publishing | en_ZA |
dc.rights | © 2021. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Ethnomedical anthropology | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Christology | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Healing | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Ideology | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Matthew 8:1–4 | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Roman Empire | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Leper | en_ZA |
dc.title | A reading of the leper’s healing in Matthew 8:1–4 through ethnomedical anthropology | en_ZA |
dc.type | Article | en_ZA |