The impetus for this book is the realization that within early Christianity, which is characterised by healing, no women are explicitly commissioned to heal. It begins with a search for the women who were healers in the Graeco-Roman world of the late Hellenistic and early Roman period, and finding them honoured in inscriptions.

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