While many Bible translations translate it as “leprosy,” the translation is incorrect. The biblical term has a broader meaning than what we recognize as leprosy. Tzaraat encompasses various ...

Although leprosy is mentioned in the Bible, the references do not appear to describe the same disease people experience today. Rather, the word "leprosy" in the Bible appears to have been ...

The "leprosy" referred to in the Bible, the "tzara'aat" of Leviticus and "lepra" of the Greek New Testament, may represent a number of severe chronic skin diseases. But according to Leviticus ...

Faith leaders have deep and trusted relationships with the communities they serve. They are therefore ideally placed to ...

Still, much about leprosy continues to elude scientific understanding ... with sin and shunning die hard (quoth the King James Bible, "And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall ...

Leprosy hearkens back centuries, all the way to its reference in the Bible in the Book of Leviticus. People in Florida are talking about leprosy again — and not just in church or Sunday school.

Leprosy hijacks our immune system ... many people will have first heard about it through references in the Bible -- very little is understood about its biology. This is in part because the ...