Women Healing/healing Women - The Genderisation of Healing in Early Christianity

List of contents

Introduction; 1: Where Theory and Practice Meet: A Way toward Transformation; 2: Women Healing/Healing Women: A New Listening to Antiquity; 3: Pharmaka, Magica, Hygieia: When Reality and Stereotype Meet–What Lies Beyond?; 4: Telling Stories of Women Healing/Healing Women: The Gospel of Mark; 5: Re-telling Stories of Women Healing/Healing Women: The Gospel of Matthew; 6: Women Cured of Evil Spirits and Infirmities: The Gospel of Luke; Conclusion

About the author

Elaine Wainwright

Summary

The impetus for this book is the realization that within early Christianity, which is characterised by healing, no women are explicitly commissioned to heal. It begins with a search for the women who were healers in the Graeco-Roman world of the late Hellenistic and early Roman period, and finding them honoured in inscriptions.

Product details

• Authors: Elaine Wainwright, Elaine M. Wainwright
• Assisted by: Philip R. Davies (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138402652
• ISBN: 978-1-138-40265-2
• No. of pages: 278
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE