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Contested Cures Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine Edinburgh Studies in Religion in Antiquity 1st Edition Megan Nutzman Digital Instant Download

Author(s): Megan Nutzman

ISBN(s): 9781399502733, 9781399502757, 9781399502764, 1399502735, 1399502751, 139950276X

Edition: 1

File Details: PDF, 9.11 MB

Year: 2022

Language: English

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Author: Megan Nutzman

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.

Contested Cures Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part I: Miraculous Objects

One God Who Conquers Evil: Gemstone and Jewelry Amulets
For I Am Yahweh Who Heals You: Lamellae and Amulets with Biblical Quotations

Part II: Miraculous Places
3. In This Holy Place: Hot Springs as Sites of Ritual Healing
4. In Which Many Miracles Are Worked: Ritual Continuity at Healing Sites

Part III: Miraculous People
5. In the Name of Jesus of Nazareth the Crucified: Ritual Practitioners Who Offered Cures
6. Working Such Wonders and Signs: Charismatic Wonderworkers Who Offered Cures

Part IV: Elite Rhetoric
7. It Is Better to Die: Elite Rhetoric and Communal Identity

Epilogue: It Is Better to Live
Bibliography
Index of Ancient Sources
Subject Index

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