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Who Touched Me?
Study Guide Episode 7
"Someone touched me." The story of the woman with the issue of blood is one of the most familiar in the Gospels, and one of the most misread. In this episode of A Strange and Beautiful Kingdom, we put it back in its Second Temple Jewish world, using the ritual purity framework from our Purity Culture primer.
Luke weaves two healing stories together around the number twelve: a woman with a twelve-year flow of blood and a twelve-year-old girl who has died. We look at why the word for the "edge" of Jesus' cloak points to the tassels of the Torah commandments, and at what…
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