Women Healing/Healing Women: The Genderisation of Healing in Early Christianity Contributor(s): Davies, Philip R. (Editor), Wainwright, Elaine M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138402656 ISBN-13: 9781138402652 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $228.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Theology - General - History | Ancient - General |
Dewey: 261.561 |
Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Religious Orientation - Christian - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 'Women Healing/ Healing Women' begins with a search for women who were healers in the Graeco-Roman world of the late Hellenistic and early Roman period. Women healers were honoured in inscriptions and named by medical writers, and were familiar enough to be stereotyped in plays and other writings. What emerges by the first century of the Common Era is a world in which women functioned as healers but where healing becomes a contested site for gender relations. By the time the gospels are written the place of women as healers is effectively erased. The book uses the historical and cultural evidence to re-read the gospel texts and discover healers in a woman pouring out ointment, healed women bearing on their bodies the language describing Jesus, and even in women possessed by demons. |