Bible Disease Leper
Today the infection is readily cured its just a matter of reaching victims of the disease and fighting the social taboos surrounding it.
Bible disease leper. Leprosy was at one time incurable and lepers were segregated into colonies. Leprosy in the bible. Leprosy in the bible leprosy also known as hansens disease is the only sickness whose traditional complex of social legal religious and hagiographical aspects have made its history inseparable from that of the bible and the church.
In addition to pain and disfiguration biblical leprosy and hansens disease are both dreaded and people were shunned because of them. Leprosy is a chronic inflammatory disease caused by the bacterium mycobacterium leprae. The noun tsaraath appears about two dozen times in the hebrew text.
23 uzziah rested with his ancestors and was buried near them in a cemetery that belonged to the kings. Also known as hansens disease leprosy is a skin infection caused by a mycobacterium.