Women healing/healing women
Subtitle: the genderization of healing in early Christianity
By: Elaine M. Wainwright.
Series: BibleWorld; Bible world (London, England)
Publisher: Equinox Pub. Ltd.; Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Bible. N.T. Gospels -- Socio-rhetorical criticism; Bible. N.T. Gospels -- Feminist criticism; Healing in the Bible; Women in the Bible; Women healers -- R ome
Description: "The impetus for this book was the startling realization that within early Christianity, which is characterized by healing, no women are explicitly commissioned to heal. The work begins with a search for the women who were healers in the Graeco-Roman world of the late Hellenistic and early Roman period, finding them honoured in inscriptions, named by medical writers, and stereotyped by playwrights and other literateurs. What emerges by the first century of the Common Era, is a world in which women functioned as healers as well as healed and that healing was a site of contestation in relation to gender."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Where theory and practice meet : a way toward transformation; title: Scoping healing; title: Sighting gender; title: Changing lenses : shaping vision; title: Feminist; title: Postcolonial; title: Ecological; title: Collecting tools; title: Socio-rhetorical approach; title: Theological meaning-making : an outcome; title: Women healing/healing women : a new listening to antiquity; title: In the beginning ... Agamede and Polydama; title: Midwife and physician : early hints of professional healing; title: Through the eyes of women healing in professional Hippocratic medicine; title: Mousa, Antiochis, Secunda, Sotira : gendering professional medicine; title: Pharmaka, magica, hygieia : when reality and stereotype meet, what lies beyond?; title: Her home and his household; title: Pharmaka and magica; title: Religious healing; title: Hygeia and Asclepius; title: Women healing in biblical Judaism; title: Telling stories of women healing/healing women : the gospel of Mark; title: The Markan world of healing; title: A fevered woman is raised up to diakonia (Mark 1:29-31); title: A young girl and a woman with a blood flow are healed (Mark 5:21-43); title: A daughter is healed of an unclean spirit (7:24-31); title: Healing women/women healing in the Markan health care system : a summary; title: A woman pours out healing ointment (Mark 14:3-9); title: Re-telling stories of women healing/healing women : the gospel of Matthew; title: Re-telling the raising up of Peter's mother-in-law to diakonia (Matt. 8:14-15); title: Re-telling the young girl raised and the woman saved (Matt. 9:18-26); title: A demon-possessed daughter is healed (Matt. 15:21-28); title: Retelling the pouring out of healing ointment (Matt. 26:6-13); title: Women cured of evil spirits and infirmities : the gospel of Luke; title: Women healed of evil spirits and infirmities (Luke 8:1-3); title: Another woman healed for diakonia? (LuKe 4:38-39); title: A woman bent over (Luke 13:10-17); title: Martha and Mary ( Luke 10:38-42); title: Women healing : a remainder.