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Document Details : Title: Aspects of (Dis)Ability, Gender and Faith in Jesus' Healing Miracles Author(s): BANKHEAD, Ivan Journal: Biblica Volume: 105 Issue: 3 Date: 2024 Pages: 374-397 DOI: 10.2143/BIB.105.3.3293719 Abstract : This paper proposes three 'differentiating features' to distinguish between those who succeeded in procuring healing from Jesus, whether for themselves or for others, and those who were healed in response to someone else’s intervention during Jesus’ earthly ministry. Two of these — contacting Jesus physically, and in conformity with cultural expectations regarding encounters between the sexes — are no longer requisites for seeking healing from Jesus, whereas the third — communicating prior faith in his healing ability — persists. However, healing may occur even in the absence of a prior act of faith — as it did in over a third of Jesus’ healing miracles recorded in the Gospels. |
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