6 While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the Leper, 7 a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table. 8 When the disciples saw this, they were indignant. “Why this waste?” they asked...
patient chronicles medical and social progress in treating Hansen's disease. The author, editor of the hospital newspaper, stresses the crusade to dissociate Hansen's disease from the "leprosy" stigmatized in the Bible, and to eradicate the term "leper" with its odious social and moral ...
I don’t know what the publishers of the Leadership Journal at Christianity Today hoped to accomplish when they published the article that initiated the #TakeDownThisPost campaign. In the wake of the problems, I hope that it demonstrates that abusers have a whole different psychology than the re...
¹TheExodusgenerated highdrama, an unforgettable tale in the Bible, perhaps thesingle most familiar oneto Jewand Gentile alike. As inspiration to subsequentgenerations ofJews and theiradmirers,its power is manifest.But what of the villains of the piece? They,orrather their presumed descend-ants,...
45 “Now the leper on whom the sore is, his clothes shall be torn and his head bare; and he shall cover his mustache, and cry, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’ 46 He shall be unclean. All the days he has the sore he shall be unclean. He is unclean, and he shall [w]dwell ...