The Corporeality of the Self: The Example of Bitter Nefeš as an Ethnomedical Syndrome
Abstract A contribution to Western genealogies of the self, the corporeality of the Hebrew soul (nefeš) is explored through the lens of ancient medical discourses. Using the example of bitterness as an ethnomedical syndrome, this essay shows how the Hebrew idiom “bitter nefeš” acts as an embodied ch...
| Published in: | Dead Sea discoveries |
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| Subtitles: | Special Issue: Formation of the Subject$dEssays in Honor of Carol Newsom’s 70th Birthday |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Brill
2021
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| In: |
Dead Sea discoveries
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Hebrew language
/ Story
/ Disease
/ Embodiment
/ Self
/ Soul
/ Bitterness
/ Mesopotamia
/ Medicine
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| RelBib Classification: | TC Pre-Christian history ; Ancient Near East |
| Further subjects: | B
Soul music
B Hebrew illness narratives B bitterness B Mesopotamian medicine B Festschrift B Newsom, Carol Ann 1950- B Self B Embodiment |
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| Summary: | Abstract A contribution to Western genealogies of the self, the corporeality of the Hebrew soul (nefeš) is explored through the lens of ancient medical discourses. Using the example of bitterness as an ethnomedical syndrome, this essay shows how the Hebrew idiom “bitter nefeš” acts as an embodied channel of flux in illness narratives about bodily suffering and healing. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5179 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Dead Sea discoveries
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685179-bja10026 |