The Greek Language of Healing from Homer to the New Testament Times (Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Fur Die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft Und Die Kunde Der Alteren Kirche)
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: June 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 487
ISBN-13: 9783110153897
Subjects: Ancient Greek religion; Early Church; European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Historical & comparative linguistics; Miracles; Greek language; Religion - Theology; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Religion; Ancient Greece; Christian Theology - Soteriology; Cult; Aesculapius (Greek deity); Greek language, Biblical; Jesus Christ; Terms and phrases
First sentence: "In the beginning was the Word"1 and the 'Word', for the Greeks, was embodied in Homer's2 Iliad.3