Megan Nutzman is an Assistant Professor in Classics at Ohio State University

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesPrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction: Roman and Late Antique PalestineMiraculous Objects1. One God who Conquers Evil: Gemstone and Jewelry Amulets2. For I am Yahweh who Heals You: Lamellae and Amulets with Biblical QuotationsMiraculous Places3. In this Holy Place: Hot Springs as Sites of Ritual Healing4. In Which Many Miracles Are Worked: Ritual Continuity at Healing SitesMiraculous People5. In the Name of Jesus of Nazareth the Crucified: Ritual Practitioners Who Offered Cures6. Working Such Signs and Wonders: Charismatic Wonderworkers Who Offered CuresElite Rhetoric7. It Is Better to Die: Elite Rhetoric and Communal IdentityEpilogue Bibliography

Contested Cures is an ambitious, empirically rigorous, and theoretically sophisticated interdisciplinary book which decenters the voices of ancient intellectual elites and focuses instead on the lived experience of ordinary people who drew freely upon a range of shared ritual objects, practices, and specialists to ameliorate their physical and psychic suffering.

Megan Nutzman is an Assistant Professor in Classics at Ohio State University

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesPrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction: Roman and Late Antique PalestineMiraculous Objects1. One God who Conquers Evil: Gemstone and Jewelry Amulets2. For I am Yahweh who Heals You: Lamellae and Amulets with Biblical QuotationsMiraculous Places3. In this Holy Place: Hot Springs as Sites of Ritual Healing4. In Which Many Miracles Are Worked: Ritual Continuity at Healing SitesMiraculous People5. In the Name of Jesus of Nazareth the Crucified: Ritual Practitioners Who Offered Cures6. Working Such Signs and Wonders: Charismatic Wonderworkers Who Offered CuresElite Rhetoric7. It Is Better to Die: Elite Rhetoric and Communal IdentityEpilogue Bibliography

Contested Cures is an ambitious, empirically rigorous, and theoretically sophisticated interdisciplinary book which decenters the voices of ancient intellectual elites and focuses instead on the lived experience of ordinary people who drew freely upon a range of shared ritual objects, practices, and specialists to ameliorate their physical and psychic suffering.

Megan Nutzman is an Assistant Professor in Classics at Ohio State University

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesPrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction: Roman and Late Antique PalestineMiraculous Objects1. One God who Conquers Evil: Gemstone and Jewelry Amulets2. For I am Yahweh who Heals You: Lamellae and Amulets with Biblical QuotationsMiraculous Places3. In this Holy Place: Hot Springs as Sites of Ritual Healing4. In Which Many Miracles Are Worked: Ritual Continuity at Healing SitesMiraculous People5. In the Name of Jesus of Nazareth the Crucified: Ritual Practitioners Who Offered Cures6. Working Such Signs and Wonders: Charismatic Wonderworkers Who Offered CuresElite Rhetoric7. It Is Better to Die: Elite Rhetoric and Communal IdentityEpilogue Bibliography

Contested Cures is an ambitious, empirically rigorous, and theoretically sophisticated interdisciplinary book which decenters the voices of ancient intellectual elites and focuses instead on the lived experience of ordinary people who drew freely upon a range of shared ritual objects, practices, and specialists to ameliorate their physical and psychic suffering.