Hippocratic Diagnosis, Solomonic Therapy, Roman Amulets: Epilepsy, Exorcism, and the Diffusion of a Jewish Tradition in the Roman World
Two contrasting portraits of exorcism in the Roman period for patients with symptoms consistent with epilepsy, drawn by Josephus (A.J. 8.45–47) and Lucian (Philops. §16), illustrate a substantial albeit contested diffusion of that ancient technique from the Jewish tradition to a wider Mediterranean...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2022
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Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
Year: 2022, Volume: 53, Issue: 1, Pages: 69-93 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Medicine
/ Amulet
/ Exorcism
/ Epilepsy
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| RelBib Classification: | HD Early Judaism |
| Further subjects: | B
Medicine
B Epilepsy B Amulets B Exorcism |
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