A Hotbed of Healing: Ritual Cures in Roman and Late Antique Palestine
Chris Faraone
My dissertation identifies four categories of ritual healing in Roman and late antique Palestine: localized cults, amulets, holy men, and sacred ceremonies. By demonstrating how diverse groups employed these methods, I offer an alternative to previous studies fragmented along traditional disciplinary boundaries of language and culture. This unified approach highlights the continuity that existed for several centuries despite changing demographics. Ultimately, I contend that these curative options belonged to a single ritual matrix devoid of modern scholarship’s boundaries between “magic” and “religion,” and that choices among these avenues were largely based on the appropriateness of certain rituals for particular ailments.
Instructor of Record 2011-12 BA Seminar, University of Chicago 2010 Readings in Classical Greek (Lysias), University of Chicago 2009 Intermediate Attic Greek I (Plato), University of Chicago Teaching Assistant 2011 Ancient Mediterranean World (Rome), University of Chicago 2010 Ancient Mediterranean World (Greece), University of Chicago 2010 Greek Antiquity and its Legacy (study abroad in Athens), University of Chicago 2009 Accelerated Beginning Attic Greek 2008-09 Greek Thought and Literature (writing instructor), University of Chicago 2007-08 Beginning Attic Greek, University of Chicago
2013 “Mary in the Protevangelium of James: A Jewish Woman in the Temple?” Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies 53, no 3, 551-578.
Educational and Cultural Affairs Junior Research Fellowship, W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem
In addition to my MA in Classics from Chicago, I have two additional masters degrees, both from Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology: Master of Theology (2005), Master of Theological Studies (2003)