02122nam 22004813u 450 991078279980332120230828230856.01-84553-486-7(CKB)1000000000691215(EBL)361236(OCoLC)437224485(MiAaPQ)EBC361236(MiAaPQ)EBC3060769(Au-PeEL)EBL361236(EXLCZ)99100000000069121520130418d2006|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWomen Healing/Healing Women[electronic resource] The Genderization of Healing in Early Christianity1st ed.London Equinox Publishing Ltd20061 online resource (279 p.)BibleWorldDescription based upon print version of record.1-84553-135-3 Cover; Contents; List of Plates; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; IndexThe 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 toBibleWorldHealing in the BibleHealing in the Bible.203.1261.5/6108209015Wainwright Elaine1520014AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910782799803321Women Healing3758449UNINA