Aretalogy of the Best Healer: Performance and praise of Mark’s healing Jesus

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies

Zorodzai Dube¹ 

[1] Department of New Testament Studies, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Pretoria;

关键词: Aretalogy;    Healing;    Propaganda;    Mark;    Apollo;    Asclepius;   

DOI  :  10.4102/hts.v74i1.5050

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The study proposes a link between Mark’s healing stories in chapter 1 and praise songs and/or poems performed at Apollo’s temple and other possible shrines of Asclepius in Southern Antioch. Mark chapter 1 begins with Jesus healing the demoniac (Mk 1:21–28), healing of Simon’s mother in law (Mk 1:29–31) and healing of various peoples who gathered at Simon’s mother-in-law’s house (Mk 1:32–34) and people from the region and afar (Mk 13:39). The chapter finishes with the controversial healing of the leper (1:40–45). Assuming that Mark is located in Southern Antioch, with analogies from Zulu praise poems, this study reread Mark’s healing stories alongside Greek aretalogies with a view to reveal the function and mood around which the stories were told and/or performed. As hypothesis, Mark’s healing stories exudes similar characteristics as Greek aretalogies, praising the benefactor (Jesus) vis-à-vis known healers such as Apollo and Asclepius.

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