Medicine and Hygiene in the Works of Flavius Josephus
Series: Studies in Ancient Medicine; 9;
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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 1 February 1994
- ISBN 9789004099418
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages220 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 568 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This review describes and discusses wide-ranging medical and paramedical data scattered throughout the works of Flavius Josephus, and covers a little known aspect of the history of medicine in ancient Jewish sources.
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This volume deals with the medical and paramedical topics, compiled from the works of Flavius Josephus, the Jewish historian who lived in the first century C.E. in Judea, and later in Rome. The study of medicine from ancient Jewish sources has focused on the Bible and the Talmud, the content of which is primarily theological and cultural. The present work reveals two main trends. Josephus' paraphrase of the Biblical narrative introduced a number of additions and/or discrepancies which bear on medicine. Moreover, his account of the Jewish War and of contemporary political events includes many details related to medicine and hygiene.
This book deals with physicians and healers, diseases and epidemics, with surgery, psychiatry and psychology, and with therapeutics. The work concludes with a discussion of medical metaphors and with a sequence of detailed treatments of topics including suicide, the Essenes and King Herod. It throws light on an aspect of Josephus studies which has rarely been considered till now.
'Samuel S. Kottek's survey of medicine in the works of Josephus is...a welcome addition to the literature...Kottek's analyses of the cases he believes are of special interest are very valuable.'
Lois N. Magner, Shopar, 1995.
'...Professor Kottek's book is a timely addition to the study of the history of medicine. It offers a concise and accurate inventory of medical allusions in the three main works of Josephus Flavius...'
Joseph Ziegler, Bulletin of the History of medicine, 1995.
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This review describes and discusses wide-ranging medical and paramedical data scattered throughout the works of Flavius Josephus, and covers a little known aspect of the history of medicine in ancient Jewish sources.
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