Talmudic Torment: Late Antique Jewish Texts on Pain and Suffering Between Medicine, Martyrdom, and Askesis

According to recent studies, pain can be conceptualised both as a bodily sensation and as a complex sociocultural phenomenon shaped by experience, expectations, and presumptions. This article analyses descriptions of agonising intestinal and inflammatory ailments with their various sensual and socio...

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Main Author: Lehmhaus, Lennart (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2022
In: Journal of early Christian history
Year: 2022, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 52-79
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
BH Judaism
CB Christian life; spirituality
CD Christianity and Culture
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
NCH Medical ethics
TB Antiquity
TF Early Middle Ages
Further subjects:B History of Medicine
B transcultural exchange
B culture of pain
B Judaism
B Asceticism
B Talmud
B body studies
B Rabbinic Literature
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