Greatness versus smallness: a postcolonial analysis of the healing of Naaman (2 Kings 5)

This article analyses the dichotomy of greatness versus smallness in 2 Kgs 5. It argues that Naaman's real disease was an unhealthy attitude towards greatness, and Elisha primarily cured it. From the discourse of the story, Aram 's and Naaman 's looting and oppression of the weaker na...

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Main Author: Berman, Sidney K. (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Dep. [2016]
In: Old Testament essays
Year: 2016, Volume: N.S.29, Issue: 3, Pages: 403-418
IxTheo Classification:FD Contextual theology
HB Old Testament
Further subjects:B Naaman
B Sin
B Heilung des Aramäers Naaman
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