04072nam 2200553 a 450 991082421790332120200520144314.01-84553-486-7(CKB)1000000000691215(EBL)361236(OCoLC)437224485(MiAaPQ)EBC361236(MiAaPQ)EBC3060769(Au-PeEL)EBL361236(EXLCZ)99100000000069121520051102d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWomen healing/healing women the genderization of healing in early Christianity /Elaine M. Wainwright1st ed.London ;Oakville, CT Equinox Pub.20061 online resource (279 p.)BibleWorldDescription based upon print version of record.1-84553-135-3 Includes bibliographical references p. [234]-247 and indexes.Where theory and practice meet : a way toward transformation -- Scoping healing -- Sighting gender -- Changing lenses : shaping vision -- Feminist -- Postcolonial -- Ecological -- Collecting tools -- Socio-rhetorical approach -- Theological meaning-making : an outcome -- Women healing/healing women : a new listening to antiquity -- In the beginning ... Agamede and Polydama -- Midwife and physician : early hints of professional healing -- Through the eyes of women healing in professional Hippocratic medicine -- Mousa, Antiochis, Secunda, Sotira : gendering professional medicine -- Pharmaka, magica, hygieia : when reality and stereotype meet, what lies beyond? -- Her home and his household -- Pharmaka and magica -- Religious healing -- Hygeia and Asclepius -- Women healing in biblical Judaism -- Telling stories of women healing/healing women : the gospel of Mark -- The Markan world of healing -- A fevered woman is raised up to diakonia (Mark 1:29-31) -- A young girl and a woman with a blood flow are healed (Mark 5:21-43) -- A daughter is healed of an unclean spirit (7:24-31) -- Healing women/women healing in the Markan health care system : a summary -- A woman pours out healing ointment (Mark 14:3-9) -- Re-telling stories of women healing/healing women : the gospel of Matthew -- Re-telling the raising up of Peter's mother-in-law to diakonia (Matt. 8:14-15) -- Re-telling the young girl raised and the woman saved (Matt. 9:18-26) -- A demon-possessed daughter is healed (Matt. 15:21-28) -- Retelling the pouring out of healing ointment (Matt. 26:6-13) -- Women cured of evil spirits and infirmities : the gospel of Luke -- Women healed of evil spirits and infirmities (Luke 8:1-3) -- Another woman healed for diakonia? (Luke 4:38-39) -- A woman bent over (Luke 13:10-17) -- Martha and Mary (Luke 10:38-42) -- Women healing : a remainder.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 toBible world (London, England)Healing in the BibleWomen in the BibleWomen healersRomeHealing in the Bible.Women in the Bible.Women healers261.5/610820901544.01bcl11.51bclWainwright Elaine Mary1948-1689149MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824217903321Women healing4196707UNINA