Drawing on New Testament studies and recent scholarship on the expansion of the Christian church, Gary B. Ferngren presents a comprehensive historical account of medicine and medical philanthropy in ...the first five centuries of the Christian era.
Ferngren first describes how early Christians understood disease. He examines the relationship of early Christian medicine to the natural and supernatural modes of healing found in the Bible. Despite biblical accounts of demonic possession and miraculous healing, Ferngren argues that early Christians generally accepted naturalistic assumptions about disease and cared for the sick with medical knowledge gleaned from the Greeks and Romans.
Ferngren next explores the origins of medical philanthropy in the early Christian church. Rather than viewing illness as punishment for sins, early Christians believed that the sick deserved both medical assistance and compassion. Even as they were being persecuted, Christians cared for the sick both within and outside of their community. Their long experience in medical charity led to the creation of the first hospitals, a singular Christian contribution to health care.
Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity is essential reading for scholars and students in the history of medicine and religious studies.
Physiognomy and ekphrasis are two of the most important modes of description in antiquity and represent the necessary precursors of scientific description. The primary way of divining the ...characteristics and fate of an individual, whether inborn or acquired, was to observe the patient's external characteristics and behaviour. This volume focuses initially on two types of descriptive literature in Mesopotamia: physiognomic omens and what we might call ekphrastic description. These modalities are traced through ancient India, Ugaritic and the Hebrew Bible, before arriving at the physiognomic features of famous historical figures such as Themistocles, Socrates or Augustus in the Graeco-Roman world, where physiognomic discussions become intertwined with typological analyses of human characters. The Arabic compendial culture absorbed and remade these different physiognomic and ekphrastic traditions, incorporating both Mesopotamian links between physiognomy and medicine and the interest in characterological 'types' that had emerged in the Hellenistic period. This volume offer the first wide-ranging picture of these modalities of description in antiquity.
The IOS Annual volume 24: "Let the Tabarna, the King, Be dear to the Gods" brings forth cutting-edge studies devoted to a wide array fields and disciplines of the Middle East, from the beginning of ...civilization to modern times.
While many aspects of Etruscan religion are intensively discussed and studied through current conferences, publications and fieldwork, general research and an overview of the socio-political and ...economic significance of the religious sphere in Etruscan society is still lacking. This volume examines the economic roles and functions of sanctuaries, as well as their pottery assemblages and vase inscriptions, in the Etruscan heartland during the 8th–5th cent. BCE. The investigation of the Etruscan sacred economy is performed on the basis of three main research questions: the reconstruction of pottery consumption patterns, the identification of production and crafts embedded into sacred contexts, and finally the analysis of the Etruscan sacred landscape as an indicator of socio-political structures and processes.
This volume, published in honour of Egyptologist Prof. Rosalie David OBE, presents the latest research on three of the most important aspects of ancient Egyptian civilisation: mummies, magic and ...medical practice. Drawing on recent archaeological fieldwork, new research on Egyptian human remains, reassessments of ancient Egyptian texts and modern experimental archaeology, these essays try to answer some of Egyptology's biggest questions: How did Tutankhamun die? How were the Pyramids built? How were mummies made? A number of leading experts in their fields combine both traditional Egyptology and innovative scientific techniques to ancient material. The resulting overview presents the state of Egyptology in 2016, how it has developed over the last forty years, and how many of its big questions still remain the same.
This volume, authored by outstanding papyrologists and historians of ancient medicine, deals with topics focused on the papyrological evidence of ancient medical texts and contexts. The first part ...contains some new reflections on important sources such as the Anonymus Londinensis and the Hippocratic corpus, the second part collects papers about the “doctors’ context”, and the final part is focused on the digitisation of the medical papyri.
O texto está disposto em quatro momentos dialógicos: i) uma (re)introdução de um devir-América bibliográfico e contracultural, obliterado nas rasuras das escrituras coloniais, ii) uma arqueologia do ...conceito de livro a partir do advento no mundo grego antigo do anthropos como um doador de forma anímico-corporal aos grafismos alfabéticos do Ocidente, iii) a exposição do LivrOnça como um livro possível de Abya Yala, presente nas semiofagias da diferOnça (différonce) das gramatologias da América, e, por fim, iv) o último instante textual aborda os encantamentos finiciais, um presente fim como cessação da condição absoluta, desencantada e acabada do livro ocidental que se encanta através do (re)início ancestral, do endeusamento das coisas e da fabricação da vida pelas escrituras ameríndias dos povos da Terra Viva, também conhecida como Amoxtlapan, terra dos livros vivos. Diante de uma perspectiva teórica de argumentação, o texto caminha por meio dos agenciamentos terranos da geofilosofia proposta por Deleuze e Guattari e do diferimento espaço-temporal desconstrutivo do livro proposto por Derrida, entretanto, com uma diferença, ambos os métodos são devorados pelas perspectivas multinaturais dos povos ameríndios. Jaguarear o livro, este é o objetivo onçológico do texto.
El presente artículo recoge los principales lineamientos de nuestra tesis de la Maestría en Didácticas Específicas, en la Universidad Nacional del Litoral, titulada “La enseñanza de la dimensión ...temporal en los manuales de historia antigua. Un estudio de su construcción y utilización”. Se buscó comprender cómo se construye y desarrolla la temporalidad, como categoría teórica, en seis manuales seleccionados, destinados a la enseñanza de la historia antigua, editados en tres contextos normativos diferentes.Los objetivos perseguidos fueron, entre otros, identificar y describir conceptos y representaciones temporales en manuales de historia antigua; elaborar hipótesis sobre qué criterios se han seguido en el tratamiento de la temporalidad y la selección/propuesta de recursos/actividades de cada uno; analizar y comparar el tratamiento de la temporalidad en distintos manuales de historia antigua (según editorial y año de edición); y comprender las teorías que sustentan las diferentes propuestas analizadas y qué tipo de relación establecen entre historia investigada/enseñada.
This volume seeks to advance the study of ancient magic through separate discussions of ancient terms for ambiguous or illicit ritual, the ancient texts commonly designated magical, and contexts in ...which the term magic may be used descriptively.
Les sources littéraires antiques retracent les périodes archaïque, classique et hellénistique de l’histoire de Crotone, la fameuse ville de Grande Grèce. Elles se tarissent quand on aborde la période ...romaine, après la transformation de Crotone en colonie en 194 av. J.-C. Pour compléter l’histoire de Crotone de son entrée dans la sphère d’influence de Rome à la fin de la période impériale, c’est à l’archéologie qu’il faut faire appel. Au cœur de ce livre, l’archéologie du territoire est mise en dialogue avec celles des pôles urbains de la région (Crotone, Capo Colonna et Petelia) et avec l’insertion de la cité dans les réseaux culturels et économiques régionaux et méditerranéens.
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