Telling Hands and Teaching Feet

British-born author Carole Ferch-Johnson developed a love for Scripture and pursued its study over many years. Her education included B.A. (German Major and Religion Minor), Pacific Union College, Angwin, CA; M.A. (Religion), Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI and PhD (with a thesis that forms the substance of this book), Avondale College, Cooranbong, NSW, Australia. A career in the people-helping professions, including pastoral counselling and hospital chaplaincy helped increase her interest in a better understanding of how the principles of the Bible might be brought to bear on human relationships. On the basis that effective communication is a core skill for relating positively and nonverbal communication is demonstrated repeatedly in the pages of Scripture, the themes for this book came into being and were developed from an academic perspective

«Carole Ferch-Johnson has provided a stimulating and timely study of the meaning of the nonverbal communication using hands and feet found in Acts 3:1-11 and 9:1-19a. She does this by considering the rest of Luke-Acts, as well as the relevant passages from the Septuagint, Philo, Josephus, Aratus, Aeschylus, Hippocrates, Soranus. In her book, Ferch-Johnson has produced a beautifully expressed exploration of the evidence, and this book will be essential reading for any future exploration of the significance of hands and feet in the New Testament.» (Professor Robert K. McIver, Avondale Seminary, Cooranbong NSW Australia).«Dr Ferch-Johnson focuses on two texts in Acts, the healing of the lame man in 3:1–11 and the commissioning of Saul in 9:1–19a. The originality of her thesis is to take the work of Julia T. Wood on non-verbal communication, demonstrate its presence in two classical writers that Luke quotes and in Jewish sources written in Greek from the second-temple era, and apply her findings to these two biblical texts. And this she does convincingly and with great skill.» (Conjoint Adjunct Professor Norman H. Young, Avondale Seminary, Cooranbong NSW Australia).

• CONTENTS: Nonverbal Communication through Telling Hands - The Words for Hands in the Greek Text of Acts - Nonverbal Communication through Telling Hands in the Greek Text of Acts 3:1–11 and 9:1–19a - Nonverbal Communication through Telling Hands in the Wider Greek Text of Acts - Nonverbal Communication through Telling Hands in the Greek Text of Luke’s Gospel - Nonverbal Communication through Telling Hands in the Greek Literature of Second Temple Judaism - Nonverbal Communication through Telling Hands in the Works of Aratus and Aeschylus, Hippocrates and Soranus - Nonverbal Communication through Teaching Feet - The Words for Feet in the Greek Text of Acts - Nonverbal Communication through Teaching Feet in the Greek Text of Acts 3:1–11 and 9:1–19a - Nonverbal Communication through Teaching Feet in the Wider Greek Text of Acts - Nonverbal Communication through Teaching Feet in the Greek Text of Luke’s Gospel - Nonverbal Communication through Teaching Feet in the Greek Literature of Second Temple Judaism - Nonverbal Communication through Teaching Feet in the Works of Aratus and Aeschylus, Hippocrates and Soranus.