Birth in Babylonia and the Bible: Its Mediterranean SettingBRILL, 2000 M01 1 - 276 páginas Utilising material spanning 3000 years, this book examines childbirth in the Biblical and Babylonian world. Stol's scholarship has an extraordinary range. He follows the mother and child from conception to weaning, analyzing a variety of different texts and topics. He deals, for example, with the vicissitudes and procedures of labor and delivery, delivery with magical plants and amulets, and with legal issues relating to abortion or to the liability of the wet-nurse. Many of the texts are rich and distinctive. Babylonian incantations to facilitate birth describe the child moving "over the dark sea" and, like a ship, reaching "the quay of life." His discussions are supplemented with relevant examples drawn from Greek and Roman sources, Rabbinic literature, and modern ethnographic material from traditional Middle Eastern societies. The last chapter, written by F.A.M. Wiggermann, deals with the horrible baby-snatching demon, Lamastum. This book is a fully re-worked edition of a volume originally written in Dutch (1983). Both authors teach at the Free University (Amsterdam). |
Contenido
Embryology | 9 |
Phasing and duration of a pregnancy | 17 |
Chapter II PROBLEMS DURING PREGNANCY | 27 |
Contraception | 37 |
Chapter III MAGIC AND THE DIVINE | 49 |
Incantations | 59 |
A cylinder seal | 72 |
Kings engendered by gods | 83 |
maternal imagination | 151 |
The production of beautiful children | 157 |
the ritual | 165 |
Chapter VII MIDWIFERY AND NURSING | 171 |
Wetnursing | 181 |
The weaned child the nursemaid | 190 |
Chapter VIII BIRTH IN MEDICAL TEXTS | 193 |
Chapter IX WORRIES AFTER BIRTH | 205 |
Chapter IV WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN? PROGNOSTICS | 91 |
The Star of Bethlehem | 99 |
Chapter V GIVING BIRTH | 109 |
The brick of birth | 118 |
Difficult labour | 129 |
Birth and pain | 136 |
The afterbirth | 144 |
Crying babies | 211 |
Chapter X LAMAŠTU DAUGHTER OF ANU A PROFILE | 217 |
Demonology and pathogenic activities | 224 |
Diagnosis and countermeasures | 236 |
Conclusion | 248 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Birth in Babylonia and the Bible: Its Mediterranean Setting Marten Stol,F. A. M. Wiggermann Sin vista previa disponible - 2000 |
Términos y frases comunes
abortion afterbirth Akkadian amulets ancient Anzû Assurbanipal Assyrian Atram-hasīs B.R. Foster baby Bēlet-ilī belly blood born breast brick Chapter child childbirth commentary daughter demon demoness Dijk DIŠ discussion divine dupl embryo Enki Enlil evil Farber father female fertile woman's foetus follows geboorte van Horus Genesis girl gods Greek handbook Hebrew Hittite human husband hymn incantation interpretation Iraq Ištar izbu Jacobsen Jewish JNES king Labat labour Lamaštu magical male mandrake Marduk means medicine Mesopotamian midwife miscarriage month mother goddess myth Niddah Ninhursag Ninisina Ninmah Nintu offspring Old Babylonian omen omina passage Pazuzu plant pregnant woman qadištu Reiner ritual Römer Šamaš seed semen Sîn Sjöberg Soden SpbTU Stol stone Sumerian Tablet Talmud Testament translation TUAT Ugaritic verb W.G. Lambert wet-nurse wife Wiggermann woman gives birth womb women word