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050	0	4	_aR135.K87.M435 1994
100	1		_aKottek, Samuel S, _e1
245	1	0	_aMedicine and hygiene in the works of Flavius Josephus / _cby Samuel S. Kottek. _hPR
260			_aLeiden [Netherlands] ; _aNew York : _bE.J. Brill, _c(c)1994.
300			_axii, 217 pages ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aStudies in ancient medicine, _vv. 9
504			_a1 (pages (c)196.-203) and index.
505	0	0	_aIntroduction: Josephus, the man and the scholar -- _tCh. I. Physicians and Healing Personnel -- _tCh. II. Diseases and Epidemics -- _tCh. III. Hygiene and Public Health -- _tCh. IV. War Injuries and Traumatology -- _tCh. V. Psychiatry and Psychology -- _tCh. Virgin Islands Therapeutics and Materia Medica -- _tCh. Virgin IslandsI. Medical Metaphors -- _tApp. 1. Epidemics in Ancient Lore: from Thucydides to Josephus -- _tApp. 2. Hygiene and Healing among the Essenes: Josephus' testimony -- _tApp. 3. Josephus on Suicide -- _tApp. 4. King Herod's Disease(s) -- _tApp. 5. Josephus the Physician: A Medieval Legend.
520	0		_aThis 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.
520	8		_aMoreover, his account of the Jewish War and of contemporary political events includes many details related to medicine and hygiene.
520	8		_aThis 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.
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610	1	0	_aJosephus, Flavius _xKnowledge _xMedicine.
650		0	_aMedicine, Ancient.
650		0	_aJews _xMedicine.
650	1	2	_aHistory, Ancient.
650	0	0	_aPublic Health _xHistory.
830		0	_aStudies in ancient medicine ; _vv. 9. _x0925-1421
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