Abstract:
This paper proposes a dialog between theology and medicine based on the analysis of the cure
of the woman suffering from hemorrhages (Lk 8:43-48). The research is guided by the
exegetical and methodological practice of Faculdades EST and its research orientators. The
work describes in a brief way, the issue of the meaning of curing in the context of the first
century, the history of medicine, presenting its concept and its origin, as it applies to what
illness meant to the primitive people of Mesopotamia and to illness in the East, in Greek
mythology and the development of medicine in Greece, Roman medicine and medicine
among the Hebrew people. It also deals with the author of the Gospel which the tradition of
the church attributes to Luke, the doctor, originally from Syrian Antioch, with the illness
which plagued the woman in Luke 8:43-48, with the physical meaning of the hemorrhagic
illness, with the possible causes of the hemorrhage, with the social and religious implication
of the illness. The work presents an exegetical interpretation of the text in focus, with its
prerogatives of interpretation, with the analysis of textual variants and the literary analysis of
the Gospel of Luke. The work also focuses on the initiative of the hemorrhagic woman and
her cure through the miraculous action of Jesus. The work also reflects on the miracle of the
cure and the cure as a miracle, about miracle in the Bible, in the Old and New Testament, and
specifically about the miracle of the cure of the hemorrhagic woman and its physical and
social meaning. Finally, the work lists a reasonable number of works where the readers and
the researchers can obtain more information on the theme.
