Jews and health: tradition, history, and practice
Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: The Significance of Health in Jewish History, Culture, and Society -- Chapter 1 Trauma, Brokenness and Pain in the Book of Lamentations: Empathetic Attention as a Hermeneutic for Thinking about the Restoration of Health -- Chapter 2 Health...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
Leiden Boston
Brill
[2023]
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| In: |
Brill's series in Jewish studies (volume 76)
Year: 2023 |
| Series/Journal: | Brill's series in Jewish studies
volume 76 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Judaism
/ Health
/ Healthy lifestyle
B Philo, Alexandrinus 25 BC-40 / Hellenism / Health / Hippocraticism B Rabbinic literature / Health |
| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Health Religious aspects Judaism B Electronic books B Health Religious aspects Christianity |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: The Significance of Health in Jewish History, Culture, and Society -- Chapter 1 Trauma, Brokenness and Pain in the Book of Lamentations: Empathetic Attention as a Hermeneutic for Thinking about the Restoration of Health -- Chapter 2 Health and Hellenism: Philo of Alexandria's Discourse on Health in the Context of Greek Philosophy and Hippocratic Medicine -- Chapter 3 Definitions of the Human Body and the Order of Creation in Rabbinic Literature -- Chapter 4 Physical Strength and Weakness as Means of Social Stratification in Palestinian Rabbinic Discourse of Late Antiquity -- Chapter 5 Medieval Jewish Views on the Preservation of Health at the Crossroads of the Arabic and Latin Medical Traditions -- Chapter 6 "The Trouble That Stalks in Darkness" (Ps 91:6): Jewish Resilience During the Plague in Early Modern Prague -- Chapter 7 Humoral Regimens of Health in the Jewish Medical Cultures of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- Chapter 8 Somatic and Spiritual Health in Times of Change: Kabbalists, Rabbis and New Approaches to Medicine in the Eighteenth Century -- Chapter 9 Health as a Jewish National Ideal in Early Zionist Writings -- Chapter 10 Quality of Life versus Sanctity of Life: Euthanasia in Modern Halakhic Discourse and in Israeli Law -- Index. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 264 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-54147-4 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004541474 |
