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Author:   Catherine Hezser
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   76
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9789004541207

ISBN 10:   9004541209
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   19 January 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents List of Contributors 1 Introduction: The Significance of Health in Jewish History, Culture, and Society  Catherine Hezser 2 Trauma, Brokenness and Pain in the Book of Lamentations: Empathetic Attention as a Hermeneutic for Thinking about the Restoration of Health  Katherine E. Southwood 3 Health and Hellenism: Philo of Alexandria’s Discourse on Health in the Context of Greek Philosophy and Hippocratic Medicine  Catherine Hezser 4 Definitions of the Human Body and the Order of Creation in Rabbinic Literature  Reuven Kiperwasser 5 Physical Strength and Weakness as Means of Social Stratification in Palestinian Rabbinic Discourse of Late Antiquity  Catherine Hezser 6 Medieval Jewish Views on the Preservation of Health at the Crossroads of the Arabic and Latin Medical Traditions  Carmen Caballero Navas 7 “The Trouble That Stalks in Darkness” (Ps 91:6): Jewish Resilience During the Plague in Early Modern Prague  Maria Diemling 8 Humoral Regimens of Health in the Jewish Medical Cultures of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries  Magdaléna Jánošíková 9 Somatic and Spiritual Health in Times of Change: Kabbalists, Rabbis and New Approaches to Medicine in the Eighteenth Century  Nimrod Zinger 10 Health as a Jewish National Ideal in Early Zionist Writings  Catherine Hezser 11 Quality of Life versus Sanctity of Life: Euthanasia in Modern Halakhic Discourse and in Israeli Law  Irit Offer Stark and William Friedman Subject Index

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Catherine Hezser (Dr. theol. 1986, Ph.D. 1992, Habil. 1997) is Professor of Jewish Studies at SOAS, University of London. Her book publications include Jewish Slavery in Antiquity (2005), Jewish Travel in Antiquity (2011), and Rabbinic Body Language (2017).

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