book chapter
Medicine and healing in the Old Testament background
Medicine in the biblical background and other essays on the origins of Hebrew • Roma • Published In 2000 • Pages: 9-68
By: North, Robert.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a treatise on disease and medicine in Ancient Israel. While there are many references to headaches and stomachaches in the Bible there is, in general a paucity of medical information. The author had to rely on other sources from the Near East and Mediterranean region, listing specific ailments associated with the eyes, ears, nose, throat, teeth, "heart", liver, kidneys, bones, and skin (leprosy), along with description of some medical practices and the status and role of physicians.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Pharmaceuticals
- Bodily injuries
- Theory of disease
- Medical therapy
- Medical personnel
- Ethnoanatomy
- Ethnophysiology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Israelites
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2020
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1200–586 BC
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Israel; Palestinian territories
- NotesAdditional notes
- Robert North
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 35-68)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 00356121
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Medicine in the Bible