Magic and the Supernatural in the Ancient World
Exam Questions
Apr. 14-16 Miracles and Supernatural Healing
Tobin Cataldo: tcatald@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
- essay question. Compare supernatural healing with
naturalistic healings.
- other. Which diety was a healing god and in a sense comparable
with Jesus?
answer. Asklepios
Kate Bolin--kbolin@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
- What was the name of the main sanctuary of Asclepius?
Epidaurus
- Is there a difference between biomedicine and ethnomedicine? Give
examples.
Derek Pepiak:dpepiak@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
- Discuss the similarities and differences in the terms used for
miracles by the Greeks and the Romans.
- What is the main characteristic that defines a miracle? It must be
witnessed.
Zach Harrelson:zharrel@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
- (obj) Circle one: Mental illness is more successfully treated in
traditional non-Western/modern Western societies than in the others.
(answer: traditional non-Western societies)
- (SA) Outline the 4 major "requirements for achievement of
deification, using a single figure as examples for each.
Nick Backer: nbacker@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
- True or false. Nganga healers are called upon by spirits to enter
into the healing profesion.
False, nganga are usually first-born sons who learn the practice
from their healer-fathers.(L&M pp.139)
- Discuss the corelation between a cultures medicinal practices and
their means of food production.
A: Kiev's article in L&M, pp.147
Michelle Arens marens@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
- 1. What is the difference between ethnomedicine and biomedicine?
- 2. Explore the differences between Miracles and Religion.
Bob Fraser: rfraser...
- objective 1. What are the steps to becoming a Messiah accourding to
Bradley?
- subjective 2. Describe the three different societies that supernatural
healing took place in according to the article by Keiv in Lehman and
Myers. Compare them over time and development.
Barbette Spaeth: spaeth@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
- List five imporant characteristics that distinguish miracle from magic.
- Compare and contrast the role of miracles in Judaism and early Christianity with that in Greco-Roman religion.
- Explain what is "supernatural" about supernatural healing.
- Discuss the evidence for supernatural healing at the sanctuary of Epidauros. What methods were used? Who practiced this healing at the sanctuary? Who came there to be healed? Were the healings successful or not? Why?