Women Healing/Healing Women: The Genderization of Healing in Early Christianity Book

List of Plates     xi
Acknowledgements     xii
Abbreviations     xiv
Introduction     1
Where Theory and Practice Meet: A Way toward Transformation     7
Scoping Healing     8
Si[gh]ting Gender     10
Chan[g/c]ing Lenses - Shaping Vision     11
Feminist     11
Postcolonial     15
Ecological     18
Collecting Tools     23
Socio-Rhetorical Approach     24
Theological Meaning-Making - an Outcome     31
Women Healing/Healing Women: A New Listening to Antiquity     33
In the Beginning?... Agamede and Polydama     36
Midwife and Physician: Early Hints of Professional Healing     37
Through the Eyes of Women Healing in Professional Hippocratic Medicine     44
Mousa, Antiochis, Secunda, Sotira - Gendering Professional Medicine     50
Conclusion     62
Pharmaka, Magica, Hygieia: When Reality and Stereotype Meet-What Lies Beyond?     71
Her Home and his Household     72
Pharmaka and Magica     74
Religious Healing     83
Hygieia and Asclepius     83
Women Healing in Biblical Judaism     92
Conclusion     96
Telling Stories of Women Healing/Healing Women: The Gospel of Mark     98
The Markan World of Healing     99
A Fevered Woman Is Raised Up to Diakonia (Mark 1.29-31)     106
A Young Girl and a Woman with a Blood Flow Are Healed (Mark 5.21-43)     112
A Daughter Is Healed of an Unclean Spirit (Mark 7.24-31)     123
Healing Women/Women Healing in the Markan Health Care System: A Summary     130
A Woman Pours Out Healing Ointment (Mark 14.3-9)     131
Conclusion     137
Re-telling Stories of Women Healing/Healing Women: The Gospel of Matthew     139
Re-telling the Raising Up of Peter's Mother-in-law to Diakonia (Matthew 8.14-15)     143
Re-telling the Young Girl Raised and the Woman Saved (Matthew 9.18-26)     146
A Demon-possessed Daughter Is Healed (Matthew 15.21-28)     153
Re-telling the Pouring Out of Healing Ointment (Matthew 26.6-13)     155
Conclusion     158
Women Cured of Evil Spirits and Infirmities: The Gospel of Luke     160
Women Healed of Evil Spirits and Infirmities (Luke 8.1-3)     164
Another Woman Healed for Diakonia (Luke 4.38-39)     172
A Woman Bent Over (Luke 13.10-17)     175
Martha and Mary (Luke 10.38-42)      179
Women Healing: A Remainder     182
Conclusion     184
Conclusion     186
Notes     190
Bibliography     234
Index of References     248
Index of Non-biblical Names     256
Index of Modern Authors     259