Contested Cures
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-0274-0 (ISBN)
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.
This innovative study synthesises evidence for the full range of healing rituals that were practised in the ancient Mediterranean world. Examining both literary and archaeological evidence, it considers ritual healing as a component of identity formation and deconstructs the artificial boundary between ‘magic’ and ‘religion’ in relation to ritual cures.
Megan Nutzman is an Assistant Professor in Classics at Ohio State University
List of IllustrationsList of TablesPrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction: Roman and Late Antique Palestine
Miraculous Objects1. One God who Conquers Evil: Gemstone and Jewelry Amulets2. For I am Yahweh who Heals You: Lamellae and Amulets with Biblical Quotations
Miraculous Places3. In this Holy Place: Hot Springs as Sites of Ritual Healing4. In Which Many Miracles Are Worked: Ritual Continuity at Healing Sites
Miraculous People5. In the Name of Jesus of Nazareth the Crucified: Ritual Practitioners Who Offered Cures6. Working Such Signs and Wonders: Charismatic Wonderworkers Who Offered Cures
Elite Rhetoric7. It Is Better to Die: Elite Rhetoric and Communal Identity
Epilogue Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.07.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Edinburgh Studies in Religion in Antiquity |
| Zusatzinfo | 11 black and white illustrations, 7 black and white tables |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-0274-3 / 1399502743 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-0274-0 / 9781399502740 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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