Birth in Babylonia and the bible : : its Mediterranean setting / / M. Stol ; with a chapter by F. A. M. Wiggermann.
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 t...
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| Superior document: | Cuneiform Monographs ; 14 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Groningen : : Styx Publications,, [2000] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2000 |
| Language: | English Dutch |
| Series: | Cuneiform Monographs ;
14. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (286 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Conception and embryology
- Problems during pregnancy
- Magic and the Divine
- What is going to happen? Prognostics
- Giving birth
- The appearance of the baby
- Midwifery and nursing
- Birth in medical texts
- Worries after birth
- Lamas̆tu, daughter of Anu : a profile / F. A. M. Wiggerman.