LEADER 04144nam 2200577 a 450 001 9910968106803321 005 20250703011141.0 010 $a1-84553-486-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000691215 035 $a(EBL)361236 035 $a(OCoLC)437224485 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC361236 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3060769 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL361236 035 $a(OCoLC)62282016 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB139034 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000691215 100 $a20051102d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWomen healing/healing women $ethe genderization of healing in early Christianity /$fElaine M. Wainwright 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLondon ;$aOakville, CT $cEquinox Pub.$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (279 p.) 225 1 $aBibleWorld 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a1-84553-135-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references p. [234]-247 and indexes. 327 $aWhere 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. 330 $aThe impetus for this book was the startling realization that within early Christianity, which is characterized by healing, no women are explicitly commissioned to heal. The work begins with a search for the women who were healers in the Graeco-Roman world of the late Hellenistic and early Roman period, finding them honoured in inscriptions, named by medical writers, and stereotyped by playwrights and other literateurs. What emerges by the first century of the Common Era, is a world in which women functioned as healers as well as healed and that healing was a site of contestation in relation to 410 0$aBible world (London, England) 606 $aHealing in the Bible 606 $aWomen in the Bible 606 $aWomen healers$zRome 615 0$aHealing in the Bible. 615 0$aWomen in the Bible. 615 0$aWomen healers 676 $a261.5/6108209015 686 $a44.01$2bcl 686 $a11.51$2bcl 700 $aWainwright$b Elaine Mary$f1948-2024.$01830636 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910968106803321 996 $aWomen healing$94401117 997 $aUNINA