The Biblical World

The healing past: pharmaceuticals in the Biblical and Rabbinic World

Cambridge University Press has done the authors proud. The book is superbly produced: beautiful print, high-grade paper, and seventy-six illustrations of outstanding quality which are an essential, an integral, part of the work as a whole. By today's standards £40 is a moderate price for an academic book of such high quality. Here is a book that gives both more and less than its title suggests....

Land Tenure in the Biblical Jubilee: a Moral World View

The sociology of knowledge can provide another tool for the scholar's workbench as he or she attempts to disclose the deeper meanings of an ancient document. Writers such as Peter Berger, Clifford Geertz, Thomas Luckmann, Karl Mannheim, and Alfred Schutz (note particularly the works cited in the bibliography} have outlined the ways in which people gather and transmit knowledge (or traditions), ...

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

Biblical Principles for Compensation

[Nine Biblical anesthetic premises.].

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The authors produced a historical analysis of nine anesthesia-related premises described in the Bible more than 3,500 years ago (Old Testament). Anesthetic drugs and adjuvants, patients, anesthesiologists attitudes and techniques are discussed in the light of Biblical and modern science. CONTENTS To help understanding, the nine premises evaluated are correlated to th...