ISBN:
9789004541474
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (VI, 264 Seiten)
Year of publication:
2023
Series Statement:
Brill's Series in Jewish Studies volume 76
Series Statement:
Brill's series in Jewish studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Jews and health
Keywords:
Health Religious aspects
;
Christianity
;
Health Religious aspects
;
Judaism
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Judentum
;
Gesundheit
;
Gesunde Lebensführung
;
Philo Alexandrinus v25-40
;
Hellenismus
;
Gesundheit
;
Hippokratismus
;
Rabbinische Literatur
;
Gesundheit
Abstract:
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.
DOI:
10.1163/9789004541474
