| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 253 pages) : illustrations, map |
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Edinburgh Studies in Religion in Antiquity |
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Edinburgh studies in religion in antiquity
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| Contents |
Introduction : Roman and late antique Palestine -- One God who conquers evil : Gemstone and jewelry amulets -- For I am Yahweh who heals you : Lamellae and amulets with biblical quotations -- In this holy place : Hot springs as sites of ritual healing -- In which many miracles are worked : Ritual continuity at healing sites -- In the name of Jesus of Nazareth the Crucified : Ritual practitioners who offered cures -- Working such signs and wonders : Charismatic wonderworkers who offered cures -- It is better to die : Elite rhetoric and communal identity -- Epilogue : It is better to live |
| Summary |
"In the ancient Mediterranean world, individuals routinely looked for divine aid to cure physical afflictions. Contested Cures argues that the inevitability of sickness and injury made people willing to experiment with seemingly beneficial techniques, even if they originated in a foreign cultural or religious tradition. With circumstances of close cultural contacts, such as prevailed in Palestine, the setting was ripe for neighbouring Jews, Samaritans, Christians, Greeks and Romans to borrow rituals perceived to be efficacious and to alter them to fit their own religious framework. As a result, they employed related means of seeking miraculous cures. The similarities of these rituals, despite changes in the identity of the divine healers that they invoked, made them the subject of polemical discourse among elite authors trying to police collective borders. Contested Cures investigates the resulting intersection of ritual healing and communal identity."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Megan Nutzman is Assistant Professor of History at Old Dominion University, USA |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Spiritual healing -- Rome
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Spiritual healing -- Palestine -- History -- To 1500
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Identity (Psychology) -- Rome
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Identity (Psychology) -- Palestine -- History -- To 1500
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Identity (Psychology)
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Spiritual healing
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BCE period - Protohistory.
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Historiography.
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Ancient history.
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Social & cultural history.
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Religion & beliefs.
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Religion.
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Middle East -- Palestine
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781399502757 |
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1399502751 |
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9781399502764 |
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139950276X |
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