Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Dead Sea Discoveries
Angaben zur Quelle:
28,3 (2021) 396-422
Keywords:
Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Dead Sea scrolls Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Medicine History
;
Discontent
;
Soul Biblical teaching
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Soul in post-biblical literature
;
Diseases History
;
Mesopotamia Civilization
Abstract:
A contribution to Western genealogies of the self, the corporeality of the Hebrew soul (nefeš) is explored through the lens of ancient medical discourses. Using the example of bitterness as an ethnomedical syndrome, this essay shows how the Hebrew idiom “bitter nefeš” acts as an embodied channel of flux in illness narratives about bodily suffering and healing.
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