Birth in Babylonia and the Bible : its Mediterranean setting /
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Dutch
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Groningen :
Styx,
2000.
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Cuneiform monographs ;
14.
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Call Number: GT2462 .S76 2000
Table of Contents:
- •Ch. I. Conception and Embryology •The beginnings •The semen •The conception •Embryology •Phasing and duration of a pregnancy •Ch. II. Problems During Pregnancy •Miscarriage •Infertility •Contraception •Abortion •Ch. III. Magic and the Divine •Amulets •Plants of Birth •Incantations •A cylinder seal •Goddesses present during birth •Kings engendered by gods •Ch. IV. What is Going to Happen? Prognostics •Hemerologies •Birth in the first month •Horoscopes •The Star of Bethlehem •Birth in omina •Ch. V. Giving Birth •Birth in myths •The brick of birth •The delivery •Difficult labour •Birth and pain •Death of mother or child •Cutting the umbilical cord •The afterbirth •Ch. VI. The Appearance of the Baby •Children in the image of their parents •Children unlike their parents: maternal imagination •The production of beautiful children •Abnormal births: the science of teratology •When monsters are born: the ritual •Why abnormal children are born •Children doomed by sin •Ch. VII. Midwifery and Nursing •The midwife •First care of the newborn baby •Wet-nursing •The weaned child, the nurse-maid •Ch. VIII. Birth in Medical Texts •The Diagnostic Handbook on pregnant women •Gynaecology •Ch. IX. Worries After Birth •Uncleanness •A boy or a girl? •Twins •Problems with newborn babies •Crying babies •Overpopulation •Ch. X. Lamastu, Daughter of Anu. A Profile / F. A. M. Wiggermann •Introduction and sources •Towards a classification of the amulets •Demonology and pathogenic activities •Diagnosis and countermeasures •Conclusion.