Table of Contents

Introduction; 1: Where Theory and Practice Meet: A Way toward Transformation; 2: Women Healing/Healing Women: A New Listening to Antiquity; 3: Pharmaka, Magica, Hygieia: When Reality and Stereotype Meet–What Lies Beyond?; 4: Telling Stories of Women Healing/Healing Women: The Gospel of Mark; 5: Re-telling Stories of Women Healing/Healing Women: The Gospel of Matthew; 6: Women Cured of Evil Spirits and Infirmities: The Gospel of Luke; Conclusion

About the Author

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.