Disease in Babylonia /
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This collection of articles is the first collection of studies on the specific subject of disease in Babylonia, based upon actual medical texts, with contributions by senior scholars who have spent years working on published and unpublished cuneiform medical texts. The volume contains editions of unpublished materials as well as syntheses of information about specific diseases in Babylonia, such as fever, published here for the first time. The volume will be important for anyone interested in the history of ancient medicine as well as being an important contribution to Assyriology.
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1 online resource. :
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9789047404187 :
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Leisure, pleasure, and healing : spa culture and medicine in ancient eastern Mediterranean /
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The book deals with leisure, pleasure and healing at the thermo-mineral sites in the Levant since the biblical era throughout the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, and early Muslim periods. It looks closely at the question of whether the spas, which are models for social interaction between pagans, Christians and Jews, served as sacred cult places or popular sites of healing. The main objectives of the book are as follows: • Clarifying the leisure-time activities at the spas based on Classical and Rabbinic literature, pilgrims' travel-books, Syriac and Arabic texts, the Geniza fragments, cartographic evidence, and archaeological findings. • Lightening the daily life, healing cults, medical recommendations and treatments. • Examining the social history of medicine at the curative baths.
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9789047420514 :
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Ladders to heaven : art treasures from lands of the Bible : a catalogue of some of the objects in the collection presented by Elie Borowski to the Lands of the Bible Archaeology Fo...
: Includes index. : 332 pages : Illustrations (some col.), maps, ports. ; 27 cm. : Bibliography: p. 311-312. : 0771066627 : Nabil
A history of landownership in modern Egypt, 1800-1950 /
: "Issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs" "The original manuscripts ... was part of a Ph.D. thesis,"Hebrew University ,Jerusalem entitle : ha-Rekhush ha-Karkai ve-she'alet ha-reformah ha-agrait be-mistyrayim (romanized from ) : xii,252 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Pure Land Buddhism in modern Japanese culture /
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Despite being one of the most influential forms of Japanese Buddhism, the Pure Land tradition, and notably its impact on the development of Japanese cultural history, has often been overlooked outside Japan. Taking into account recent scholarship on orientalism and occidentalism, this book, written from the perspective of the Study of Religions, provides an analysis of the impact that the Pure Land tradition, in particular Shin Buddhism, has exerted on mainstream forms of artistic expression (especially creative arts, literature and the tea ceremony) in modern and contemporary Japan.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-258) and index. :
9789047443056 :
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