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• 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.

Utilising material spanning 3000 years, this book examines childbirth in the Biblical and Babylonian world. It follows the mother and child from conception to weaning, analyzing a variety of different texts and topics. It deals with the vicissitudes and procedures of labour 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 the child moving "over the dark sea" and, like a ship, reaching "the quay of life". Discussions are supplemented with relevant examples drawn from Greek and Roman sources, Rabbinic literature, and modern ethnographic material from traditional Middle Eastern societies. The last chapter deals with the horrible baby-snatching demon, Lamastum.
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This book offers a careful study of biblical texts on menstruation and childbirth in the light of their ancient Near Eastern background. Close reading of the biblical texts, based on classical and feminist biblical interpretation, and supported by comparative study of ancient Near Eastern sources and anthropology, reveals a rich and varied picture of these female events. Fertility and impurity are closely connected to menstruation and childbirth, but their place and importance are different in priestly and nonpriestly writings of the Bible, which are therefore separately dealt with. This book contributes to a better understanding of physiological, social, cultural, and religious aspects of menstruation and childbirth in the larger context of body and society and women and men.
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• 1. Synchronic Examination of Ancient Near Eastern Birth Annunciations--
• 2. Egypt, Ugarit, Hatti, Sumer--
• 3. Synchronic Examination of Hebrew Bible Birth Annunciations--
• 4. Isaac and Ishmael - Genesis-- 5 Jacob, Esau, Samson, Solomon--
• 6. Mission Tour Participants--
• 7. Comparison of Ancient Near Eastern and Hebrew Bible.
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This is the first book to do an extended comparative study of birth annunciations in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Mythology. This book takes a structural approach to the Heberw bible and Near Eastern Mythology by compraring and contrasting the various forms and functions. Birth annunciations play an important role in each of these narratives and the author claims that there is a textural overlap to be studied.
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