Pain in Biblical Texts and Other Materials of the Ancient Mediterranean

doi:10.1628/978-3-16-160642-7

Pain in Biblical Texts and Other Materials of the Ancient Mediterranean

Edited by Saul M. Olyan and Michaela Bauks

2021. 275 pages.

Forschungen zum Alten Testament 2. Reihe (FAT II) 130

DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-160642-7

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The representation of pain has received little attention from scholars. This collection of essays will stimulate interest in this challenging and intriguing phenomenon. It includes studies of the representation of both physical and psychological pain, pain's origins and its social and religious functions.

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Saul M. Olyan Born 1959; PhD Harvard University; 1985−87 assistant professor of Religious Studies, University of Winnipeg; 1987−92 assistant professor of Religious Studies, Yale University; since 1992 professor of Religious Studies and Judaic Studies, Brown University.

Michaela Bauks Born 1962; PhD University of Heidelberg; HDR University of Strasbourg; 1995−2005 professor of Old Testament at the Faculté de Théologie Protestante, Montpellier; since 2005 professor of Old Testament and Religious History at the University of Koblenz.

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