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Hygeine Conditio in Ancient Israel (Iron Age) , by Edward Neufeld 42
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Hygiene Conditions in Ancient Israel (Iron Age)
EDWARD NEUFELD
Farleigh, Diekinson University
Recently, the BA has been printing articles of a cross-disciplinary kind, to illustrate areas yet to be opened up in full ineasure by archaeologists. The follo-wing article is reprinted from the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, XXV (1970), with the kind permissian of its editor Miss Elizabeth H. Thomson, to suggest the state of investigation on its subject at present. I t should be pointed out that archaeologists have not often been asking these questions of their soil and artifacts; the subject of hygiene is in its infancy so far as archaeology is concerned. lt is to be hoped that the printing of this introductory essay, with its valuable bibliography as well, will further encourage archaeologists to work with natural scientists to gain more information on the subject at issue in the article. — Editor]
The aim of this paper is to present the essentials of hygiene conditions and practices in ancient Israel. The chief range of the inquiry is confined to the period of the early and middle Iron age of the Near East, which roughly covers the 12th to early 6th centuries B.C. The main sources of information come from textual materials of the Bible itself, archaeological findings, and labors of previous scholars to whom references are made.
Though our knowledge derived from archaeological explorations and
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- Verlag:
- published by the American Schools of oriental Research 126 Inman Street Cambridge, mass.
- Heft, 32 Seiten
- Artikelnummer:
- B00056435
- Gewicht:
- 400 gr