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Women Healing/Healing Women [[electronic resource] ] : The Genderization of Healing in Early Christianity



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Autore: Wainwright Elaine Visualizza persona
Titolo: Women Healing/Healing Women [[electronic resource] ] : The Genderization of Healing in Early Christianity Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London, : Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2006
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
Disciplina: 203.1
261.5/6108209015
Soggetto topico: Healing in the Bible
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Plates; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: Women Healing  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-84553-486-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910454536403321
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Serie: BibleWorld