HEALING IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY AND THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD

Exploration of understandings of health and healing in the gospels and other early Christian traditions, and of Jesus' role as healer, in comparison to contemporaneous Greco-Roman religious traditions (e.g., Galen, the author of the most influential medical textbook in the western world, and the Asclepius cult, the world's first system of wholistic medicine).