Leisure, Pleasure and Healing: Spa Culture and Medicine in Ancient Eastern Mediterranean (SUPPLEMENTS TO THE JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF JUDAISM, 116) - Hardcover

Dvorjetski, Esti

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 900415681X ISBN 13: 9789004156814

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2007

Synopsis

This book deals with leisure, pleasure and healing at the spas in the eastern Mediterranean basin since the biblical era throughout the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, and early Muslim periods focusing on daily life, healing cults, medical recommendations and treatments at the curative spas.

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About the Author

Estēe Dvorjetski, Ph.D. (1992) in Jewish History, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is Professor at the Department of History, Oxford Brookes University and also teaches at the Department of Archaeology, Haifa University, Israel. She has published more than 60 articles and chapters in books on daily life, spas, ecology, history of medicine, leisure culture, numismatics and history of art during the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and early Muslim periods. She is currently engaged with her next book, entitled Public Health in the Holy Land: An Historical-Archaeological Analysis.

Review

All those interested in the history of Late Antiquity, archaeology, geology, history of medicine, spa culture, classical studies, history of religions, Holy Land studies, Jewish history, Rabbinic literature as well as Aramaic and Greek epigraphy and numismatics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 900415681X
• ISBN 13: 9789004156814
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 524