Milagros de curación en la tradición médica tardo-antigua

Abstract

Medical thaumaturgy has been broadly proved in old Jewish and Christian. Miracle interacted with the therapeutic act, rationally directed, confi guring a téchne iatriké it was not simple to separate magic, religion, philosophy and medicine. The anthropologic concept "divine man" (theiós anér), with basis on the Classical Age, supported of miracle stories and was associated with Jesus of Nazareth and Apollonius of Tyana. It is possible to extract from Christian literature, canonical and apocryphal, from postbiblical writing of Judaism and Hellenic philosophy; fundamental ideas of cosmic dynamism and the centrality of man as convergence point of these forces of healing.