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...

Among Christians a new consciousness in medical ethics has been raised by abortion, infanticide and euthanasia. The horror of these practices is often called "sound medical practice." This situation brings into question all the ethics of a medical worldview that allowed such practices to become routine. Many ethicists have observed that Protestants have lagged behind in their development of med...

The reliability of the narrative of the Biblical Exodus has been subject of heated debate for decades. Recent archaeological studies seem to provide new insight of the exodus path, and although with a still controversial chronology, the effects of the Minoan Santorini eruption have been proposed as a likely explanation of the biblical plagues. Particularly, it has been suggested that flooding b...

tenable. 20. Students of Pauline Christology and eccIesiology have to tease out the apostle's meaning when they confront some problem texts. The merit of R. Yates' extended note on one such text (' A Reexamination of Ephesians 1: 23', ExpT 83. 5, pp. 146-151) is that he covers and considers all the viable possibilities before stating his verdict. Thus the reader has a conspectus of the field be...

first with the poetic view of mind, with examples from Homer and the tragedians, second with the philosopher's, i.e. largely Plato's, and finally with the medical, i.e. the early Hippocratic texts. All three approaches are combined in a discussion of hysteria, in which he also stresses the social and sexual prohibitions of Athenian women and the ambivalent, yet often effective, distancing of th...