Women Healing/Healing Women The Genderisation of Healing in Early Christianity |
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| Author:
| Wainwright, Elaine |
| ISBN: | 978-1-351-22384-3 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2017 |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Group
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| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| List Price: | USD $46.95 |
Book Description:
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The impetus for this book is the realization that within early Christianity, which is characterised by healing, no women are explicitly commissioned to heal. It begins with a search for the women who were healers in the Graeco-Roman world of the late Hellenistic and early Roman period, and finding them honoured in inscriptions.
The impetus for this book is the realization that within early Christianity, which is characterised by healing, no women are explicitly commissioned to heal. It begins with a search for the women who were healers in the Graeco-Roman world of the late Hellenistic and early Roman period, and finding them honoured in inscriptions.