Jews and Health

Tradition, History, and Practice

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2023
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-54120-7 (ISBN)

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Jews and Health: Tradition, History, Practice investigates the value of health in the Jewish tradition and explores Jewish recommendations and practices to maintain and restore health as a state of physical, mental, and spiritual wellbeing.

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, Magdaléna Jánošíková, 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.

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).

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

Erscheinungsdatum	08.02.2023
Reihe/Serie	Brill's Series in Jewish Studies ; 76
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	580 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	90-04-54120-9 / 9004541209
ISBN-13	978-90-04-54120-7 / 9789004541207
Zustand	Neuware