%0 Book
%T Jews and health: tradition, history, and practice
%E Hezser, Catherine
%S Brill's series in Jewish studies volume 76
%D 2023
%I Brill
%C Leiden
%@ 9789004541474
%G English
%F 1838869921
%O edited by Catherine Hezser
%X 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.
%L BD 1250
%K Health
%K Religious aspects
%K Christianity
%K Judaism
%K Electronic books
%9 Text
%9 Aufsatzsammlung
%R 10.1163/9789004541474
%U https://brill.com/view/title/58223
%U https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004541474