A health librarian at church: leprosy

This started life as apost from 2015.  I have removed the links that have broken since, including a chapter in the Encyclopaedica Judaica, which seems not to be freely available anymore.  Your local library might have access. In Mark 1:40, in the Christian New Testament, Jesus heals a man with leprosy. I ' d certainly come across the idea that " leprosy " in the Bible might not actually be the leprosy (Hansen ' s disease) that we know today.  There is work by Biblical scholars and others to back up my memory - thisarticle by Cochrane (not Archie), and an article from the Jewish Encyclopedia.  A PubMed search for leprosy AND bible finds 60, the oldest 1873 and the most recent April 2020.  (This is six more than when I wrote in 2015).Actually leprosy AND (bible OR biblical) is better,  finding 72, including one from 1914 also arguing that " leprosy " in the Bible may not have been Hansen ' s disease (1).Neither PubMed search finds this article (2).  Finding it through Google, as I did, meant I did not know which journal published it and when.   However, my own institution ' s Library Search finds it, in JSTOR, in the journal The Biblical World.  This is why, I imagine, it was not in PubMed....   Our Library Search finds articles in medical and theological journals, including some in theSouth African part of SciELO - watch that your general database or sea...
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