Chapter Wiggermann (2 results)
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Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.Last Exit Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Styx Publications, Groningen, Netherlands. 2000. 268 pgs. Cuneiform Monographs, 14. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owne…r's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. 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). E-109; Cuneiform Monographs, 14; 9.7 X 7.0 X 0.9 inches; 268 pages.
Published by Styx Publications, Gronigen 2000
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First edition. Thin quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, more so to dust jacket. x, 124 p. w/footnotes, illustrations, bibliography, indices. Completely re-written from the original Dutch text of 1983, this work examines the literature of bi…rth and pregnancy in Babylonian tablets from 3000 bce down to the early Christian era.
