HELEN INGRAM: Since the world-view that was active in the first centuries associated sickness with demonic influence, many healers considered it necessary to bind the demon responsible for an illness in order to bring about the cure. Therefore binding and loosing are both terms that were closely related to healing in the ancient world.
we can safely assume that the author of Luke intended healing to be understood as an exorcism.
DORIT KEIDAR: the name of the disease was the name of the demon.
Geoffrey Dennis: The magical ritual of reducing the word is intended to yield a parallel reduction in the severity of the illness.
AI Overview: Around 400 BC, Ἱπποκράτης identified what is now known as cervical cancer as a "cancer of the uterus."
Geoffrey Dennis: Jewish exorcisms are usually "liturgical," using protective passages from the Psalms and other sacred texts.
AYELETT SHANI: For example, if someone who is very ill goes to a rabbi, the rabbi may instruct him to change his name or to add a letter to it, in order to be cured.
Rosh Hashanah 16b: Four things, even five, annul the decree that seals a person's fate: namely, charity, crying out, changing one's name, changing one's actions, and some even say changing one's place.
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