| Description |
xvi, 262 p. : ill. |
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BibleWorld |
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Bible world (London, England)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references p. [234]-247 and indexes. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Bible. N.T. Gospels -- Socio-rhetorical criticism.
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Bible. N.T. Gospels -- Feminist criticism.
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Healing in the Bible.
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Women in the Bible.
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Women healers -- Rome.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
1845531345 (hb) |
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9781845531348 (hb) |
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1845531353 (pbk.) |
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9781845531355 (pbk.) |
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