Lepra 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.
Lepra bible. Nature and locality of the disease. The greek covers a wide range of diseases that produced scales. Leprosy has terrorized mankind since biblical times and was recorded as early as 600 bc in india china and egypt.
References to leprosy obviously arent to what is known as leprosy today but a variety of skin disorders as well as some type of mold or mildew which might affect objects. Although as mentioned above modern. The condition described as leprosy in the old testament section of the bible is not the same as modern leprosy or.
In the new testament cleansing of the lepers is mentioned as a specific portion of our. It is also unique in that the treatment cure and rehabilitation of millions of victims are seriously impeded today by widespread errors concerning it which are historically associated with the bible and the church. So what are the facts.
In biblical times leprosy was viewed as a curse from god often connected with sin. The first old testament mention of this disease is as a sign given by god to moses exodus. Leprosy 1.
The term ara at is traditionally rendered leprosy because of its translation by greek lepra lxx new testament and josephus. Greek lepra may have included true leprosy ie hansens disease but is definitely not limited to it. The phrase leprosy and semantic variants are mentioned 68 times in the bible.
3 the priest shall examine the sore on the skin of the body. In the old testament of the bible leprosy is frequently referred to as an ailment afflicting not just humans but also houses and fabric. The law concerning leprosy.
2 when a man has on the skin of his body a swelling a scab or a bright spot and it becomes on the skin of his body like a aleprous sore then he shall be brought to aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests. And if one touches anything made unclean by a corpse or if a man has a seminal emission matthew 84. And if the hair on the sore has turned white and the sore appears to be deeper than the skin of his body it is a leprous sore.
No man of the descendants of aaron who is a leper or who has a discharge may eat of the holy gifts until he is clean. The main reason why leprosy is talked about so much in the bible is that it is a graphic illustration of sins destructive power. Archeological and written records strongly suggest that although the equivalent of modern leprosy had appeared in china.
Leprosy in the new testament. 13 and the lord spoke to moses and aaron saying. Leprosy was common in bible times and the many references to it were well understood by those who lived in unsanitary conditions.
In the old testament the cases of leprosy likely involved a kind of infectious skin disease.