RT Book
T1 Jews and health: tradition, history, and practice
T2 Brill's series in Jewish studies
JF Brill's series in Jewish studies
A2 Hezser, Catherine 1960-
LA English
PP Leiden Boston
PB Brill
YR 2023
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1838869921
AB 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.
CN BM538.H43
SN 978-90-04-54147-4
K1 Health : Religious aspects : Christianity
K1 Health : Religious aspects : Judaism
K1 Electronic books
K1 Aufsatzsammlung
DO 10.1163/9789004541474