Demons and Illness from Antiquity to the Early-Modern Period by Bhayro

Demons and Illness from Antiquity to the Early-Modern Period (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004338531)

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Demons and Illness from Antiquity to the Early-Modern Period by Bhayro

Demons and Illness from Antiquity to the Early-Modern Period

$133.00
Demons and Illness from Antiquity to the Early-Modern Period by Bhayro

Demons and Illness from Antiquity to the Early-Modern Period

$133.00
Format: Hardcover
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In many near eastern traditions, including Christianity, Judaism and Islam, demons have appeared as a cause of illness from ancient times until at least the early modern period. This volume explores the relationship between demons, illness and treatment comparatively. Its twenty chapters range from Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt to early modern Europe, and include studies of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. They discuss the relationship between 'demonic' illnesses and wider ideas about illness, medicine, magic, and the supernatural. A further theme of the volume is the value of treating a wide variety of periods and places, using a comparative approach, and this is highlighted particularly in the volume's Introduction and Afterword. The chapters originated in an international conference held in 2013.

"Ultimately, Demons and Illness admirably performs the important task of reminding modern scholars of premodern health of the integral role played by these complex and shifting entities in the lives of people across the globe and through the centuries." -Rachel Podd, Fordham University, in: Social History of Medicine 32.3 (2019)

"Given the sheer breadth of its scope, the volume is, of course, illustrative rather than comprehensive in its coverage, yet there is a definite coherence to its content, aided by the introduction and afterword which bookend the work and help begin to draw out the threads of commonality and difference. As such it constitutes a significant and welcome resource for comparative explorations of historical-cultural links between demons, illness, medicine, and magic, while offering a clear invitation to future work." -Matthew A. Collins, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 43.5 (2019)

Author: Siam Bhayro
ISBN-10: 9004338535
ISBN-13: 9789004338531
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 02/16/2017
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.10w x 0.80d
By Siam Bhayro
By Siam Bhayro
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Siam Bhayro, Ph.D. (2000), University College London, is Associate Professor in Early Jewish Studies at the University of Exeter. His research interests include the Bible, Semitic languages, medicine in the Christian and Islamic orient, and Jewish magic.
Catherine Rider, Ph.D. (2004), University College London, is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Exeter. She has published on the history of medieval magic and medicine, including Magic and Religion in Medieval England (Reaktion Books, 2012).

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