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Groningen: Styx Publications, 2000. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 24.5 x 17.5 cm. Octavo. 124pp. Bibliography, index. Blue cloth in dust jacket. Light edgewear. Cuneiform Monographs 14.
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Birth in Babylonia and the Bible: Its Mediterranean Setting Hardcover - 2000
by Stol
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- Title Birth in Babylonia and the Bible: Its Mediterranean Setting
- Author Stol
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 268
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Brill
- Date 2000-01
- ISBN 9789072371898 / 9072371895
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00416769
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E-151: Brill. Very Good. 2000. Hardcover. 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 owner'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…
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