Jews and Health
Tradition, History, and Practice
Published on 19. January 2023
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-90-04-54120-7 (ISBN)
Description
The contributions in Jews and Health: Tradition, History, Practice examine the significance of the preservation of physical, mental, and spiritual health in the Jewish tradition and in Jewish societies from ancient to modern times from multiple thematic and methodological perspectives. The authors -- Carmen Caballero Navas, Maria Diemling, William Friedman, Catherine Hezser, Magdalena Janosikova, Reuven Kiperwasser, Katherine E. Southwood, Irit Offer Stark, and Nimrod Zinger -- deal with definitions and representations of health in biblical, Jewish Hellenistic, rabbinic, medieval, and (early) modern Jewish texts and investigate practical measures to restore health after public and personal disasters. The focus on health distinguishes this volume from earlier works on Jewish medicine and makes it relevant for contemporary discussions on health maintenance and recuperation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-54120-7 (9789004541207)
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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).
Content
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
?Magdalena Janosikova
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
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
?Magdalena Janosikova
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