1) This is definitely a first cut, as I don't know if I can provide anything different for this text.First, Naaamn name is the male Naomi, meaning joy/pleasantness.Great name for a general.
2) The skin disease could be a variety of ailments. I do not know if Hansen's disease was yet on the march.
3) Some of you may think of the Kingdom of Heaven with the king. He was fictional but based on a real Christian Crusader king.
4) An interesting way to go at this would be to focus on the Hebrew captured slave who helps her master. is she compassionate or a collaborator?
5) What do you make of Elisha's sending the messenger? Is it prejudice, hatred for a powerful foreigner, an ironic twist on divine power?
6) A character study of Naaman would be good. See the new Christian Century pieces by Lose on power in this regard.One could do a character study of Elisha here and elsewhere that could be great. As my hair is disappearing, we could include his actions toward those who taunt him about baldness.
7) this account would also be a good gateway to explore our attitudes toward healings, physical, spiriutal, emotional.
8) Link this story about inclusive healing to Lk. 4's sermon, Jonah, Ruth and Naomi, and Ezra's inward turn on marriage.
9) This could be a good entry point on inclusive v. exclusive or prejudice, or our work on disabilities of various types.
100 Naaman's comparison of israel or Syrian rivers could be a good place ot consider ritual in church and culture as well. It is my increasing contention that we are ritually impoverished in 2012.
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