TY  - BOOK
ED  - Hezser, Catherine
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023//
TI  - Jews and health: tradition, history, and practice
T3  - Brill's series in Jewish studies volume 76
PB  - Brill
CY  - Leiden
KW  - Health
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Electronic books
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.
SN  - 9789004541474
UR  - https://brill.com/view/title/58223
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004541474
DO  - 10.1163/9789004541474
LA  - English
N1  - edited by Catherine Hezser
ID  - 1838869921
ER  -