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DUBE, Zorodzai. Aretalogy of the Best Healer: Performance and praise of Mark's healing Jesus. Herv. teol. stud. [online]. 2018, vol.74, n.1, pp.1-9. ISSN 2072-8050.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hts.v74i1.5050.

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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