„The Healing of Paralytic (Mk 2,1-12) on the Background of Miracle Tradition of Judaism and Greco-Roman World”

Questiones Selectae 10 (2003) 16, 9-25.

The principal message of Mark's pericope about the healing of paralytic becomes comprehensible in perspective of ancient narrations about miracles of healing in Judaic and Hellenistic literature. Author gives some examples of such narrations (2 Kings 5,1-20; 2 King 20,1-7; Isaiah 38,1-20; healing worked by rabbi Ben Dosa and by Apollonius of Tyana) in order to characterize the essential theological idea of Mark's account.

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