The Medical Language of St. Luke

William Hobart

• Publisher: Gorgias Press
• Year: 2004
• eBook ISBN:
  9781463208455
• Edition: 1

This is a highly fascinating and enlightening study of the medical words and phrases common to the third Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. Hobart demonstrates, using medical sources by Galen and Hippocrates, that the writer of Luke was a physician with knowledge of Greek medical terms.

Table of contents

• PREFACE
• CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• PART I. MEDICAL LANGUAGE EMPLOYED IN THE ACCOUNT OF THE MIRACLES OF HEALING
• PART II. MEDICAL LANGUAGE USED OUTSIDE MEDICAL SUBJECTS
• NOTE. PROBABILITY OF ST. PAUL'S EMPLOYMENT OF ST. LUKE'S PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
• INDEX