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'Women Healing/ Healing Women' begins with a search for women who were healers in the Graeco-Roman world of the late Hellenistic and early Roman period. Women healers were honoured in inscriptions and named by medical writers, and were familiar enough to be stereotyped in plays and other writings. What emerges by the first century of the Common Era is a world in which women functioned as healers but where healing becomes a contested site for gender relations. By the time the gospels are written the place of women as healers is effectively erased. The book uses the historical and cultural evidence to re-read the gospel texts and discover healers in a woman pouring out ointment, healed women bearing on their bodies the language describing Jesus, and even in women possessed by demons.

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Elaine Wainwright is inaugural Professor of Theology and Head of the School of Theology at the University of Auckland. Her specialization has been in the study of Matthew's gospel with a particular interest in contemporary biblical hermeneutics. Her most recent publication was Shall We Look for Another? A Feminist Re-reading of the Matthean Jesus.

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