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Relationships between God and people in the Bible: a core conflictual relationship theme study of the Pentateuch/Torah.
The most widely known images of God are from the Bible. An important characteristic of these images is their portrayal of God's interactions with people. Although there have been many religious and literary discussions of God's relationships with people in the Bible, no systematic psychological assessment has been reported. Therefore, the aim of this study was an innovation: to identify patterns of relationship between God and people portrayed in the first five books of the Bible, the Pentateuch or Torah, by using the core conflictual relationship theme (CCRT) method, a widely used scoring system for the assessment of interpersonal relationships. Reliability for the application of the CCRT method to relationship episode narratives in the Pentateuch/Torah was assessed and found to be very good. Results show that the most frequent theme in relationship episode narratives about God and people is that God is helpful. Two less frequent but also highly repetitive themes are that God controls or hurts the other person. Many differences were found between relationship themes defined by the type of person with whom God interacted: patriarch, Moses, woman, non-Israelite, or not a non-Israelite. Thus, the CCRT results identify several different patterns of relationship between God and people.
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Left and right in the Bible from a neuropsychological perspective.
Although in several neuropsychological works dealing with hemispheric specializations a few passages of the Bible referring to the left and the right have been mentioned now and then, a systematical study with a neuropsychological approach to this topic was still a missing link. By using concordance texts from the Bible books of the Hebrew Canon (Old Testament, OT) and from the New Testament (NT), all the verses containing any reference to the left and the right (OT = 151, NT = 49 verses) have been identified and classified into 10 groups: (1) references to space, (2) symmetric sayings, (3) the right hand is the favorite hand, (4) right eye preference, (5) God's right hand, (6) the right side is more prestigious, (7) the right side in liturgy, (8) left hand preference, (9) fatal left-hand shots, and (10) on the left side. Some statistical considerations have been put forward and a neuropsychological, anthropological approach has been suggested for the purpose of interpreting the most interesting verses. According to the author of the present paper, it would be worthwhile commenting on some texts of ancient and modern literature not only from a linguistic, historical, religious and theological point of view, but also by means of a neuropsychological approach.
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Neurosurgery and the Holy Bible.
In a search for neurosurgical relevance, an analysis of the Holy Text was performed using a computerized version of the Bible (optical disc.) Scriptural motives which have been vividly popularized by famous painters were especially highlighted. It is concluded that although scientific statements are not possible, many topics of the bible can be related to the field of Neurosurgery "on a higher level".
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The Bible suicides.
Death by suicide is described in the Holy Bible. The number of characters affected ranges from 3 to 11, depending on the inclusion of the Apocrypha, the definition of suicide adopted and the version of the death accepted when there is more than one account. The Bible treats suicide in a factual way and not as wrong or shameful.
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Inverted conversions: reading the Bible and writing the lesbian subject in Oranges are not the only fruit.
The prominence of the Bible as intertext in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, both a coming-of-age and a coming-out story, has puzzled readers. This paper argues that Winterson's articulation of a lesbian subject is actually inseparable from her revisionary engagement of the Bible. By repeatedly turning and re-turning several types of narrative about the origins of identity and story-making. Winterson reconstructs both some biblical texts and a hallmark of the gay and lesbian literary tradition as precursors for the prophetic voice of the main character.
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Embryology in Holy Bible.
The knowledge of Embryology and its existence dates back to the remote antiquity of mankind. The theory of maternal impressions on Embryo has its sanction in the Holy Bible. Apart from this it is remarkable to find artificial incubation of the eggs of birds practised 'probably' as far back as about 3000 B.C. Other than these, the existence of midwives, cases of premature births, deliveries of the women of advanced age and the obstetric chair etc. are the expositions of the science of medicine in the Holy Bible.
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[The tooth in the Bible].
In this short essay the author investigates from the view of pathology, physiology and dentistry those chapters of the Bible where human or animal teeth occur. Regarding the number of occurrences of teeth in the Bible there are 36 cases in the Old Testament and 11 in the New Testament. Out of this number 39 are about human teeth and 8 about those of the animals. The paper starts with the consideration of the talio-law (Lev 24.20: "If he knocks out a tooth, one of his teeth shall be knocked out"), which is regarded to be originated in the Babilonian King Hammurabi's compendium (B.C. 19th century), which was asserted by the king to have been delivered to him by Marduk. Comparing the habit of gnashing, grinding, or gritting of teeth, or showing the white of one's teeth, the author points out that whereas the first is a passive concomitant of pain (either mental--in which case it is called bruxomania, or otherwise: based on physical reasons) the second type is a phenomenon of an imminent action (i.e. threat or attack). Periodontics (or parodontology that is to say the branch that deals with diseases of the supporting and investing structures of the teeth including the gums, the cementum peridontal membranes and alveolar bone), regards the grinding of the teeth to be a parafunction ...
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[Odontostomatology in the Bible].
Quotations in the Bible referring to the mouth and teeth are reported and commented on; special attention is addressed to the fact that, according to Bible Authors, teeth are more important from the socio-cultural and legal than from the medical point of view.
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Dysmorphology in the Bible and the Talmud.
This article enumerates the congenital anomalies mentioned in the Bible and the Talmud, the two holiest and oldest texts in Judaism. Most of these conditions were described to regulate attributes that would disqualify a Priest from performing religious rituals in the Temple in Jerusalem. However, the cultural atmosphere in Biblical and Talmudical times was one in which physical deformity did not necessarily evoke a negative aesthetic reaction, an assumption of ill health, or the expectation of economic dependence.
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[Suicide in the Bible from the current psychodynamic viewpoint. "There Saul took a sword and fell upon it"].
After a short introduction to psychoanalytical interpretation of literature in general and in the Bible, the stories of Samson and King Saul are examined on the basis of modern psychoanalytical aspects of suicidology (narcissistic theory, object relation theory, self psychology). Samson's beginning is hallmarked by the uncertainty of his parents, their megalomanic fantasies which are projected on the child. His relationships are characterized by violent emotions, intensive conflicts on intimacy and distance and also raging anger at insults and privation. In his suicide he fuses himself with the highly ambivalent primary object and destroys it at the same time he destroys himself. People with narcissistic personality are considered to be extremely suicidal especially in combination with the destructive potency of narcissistic anger.
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The plague called "shechin" in the Bible.
The Old Testament contains some of the earliest descriptions of skin disease. One example is the plague called "shechin," which probably consisted of several cutaneous disorders, all characterized by marked inflammation. Clinical highlights of these conditions are discussed on the basis of three case histories recounted in the Bible.
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Emotional distress in the Hebrew Bible. Somatic or psychological?
A systematic search was made in the Hebrew Bible for expressions of emotional distress. A wide range of somatic and psychological vocabulary was found, especially in the Psalms and other poetic literature. Somatic expressions most frequently involved the heart, bowels, belly, bones, and eyes. Head symptoms were rare. Metaphors referring to the heart were common; other somatic expressions appeared to be descriptions of actual physical sensations. Usually somatic and psychological expressions were paired together, utilising the 'parallelism' of Hebrew verse form. Biblical Hebrew thus incorporated a powerful and sophisticated language of emotional expression.
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Missionary positions: reading the Bible in Forster's "The life to come".
E. M. Forster's short story "The Life to Come" intersects the concerns of both his colonial fiction (A Passage to India) and his homosexual fiction (Maurice). The confrontation in the story between a native chief and a missionary serves initially to explore the differences between permissive and prohibitional readings of the Bible, which reflects Forster's dislike of restrictive English morals. However, contextualizing the story within the project of translating Vedic scripture that attended British imperialism near the turn of the century demonstrates that Forster, like his contemporary and mentor Edward Carpenter, found within colonialism access to a mode of thinking that ultimately questioned the validity of either permission or prohibition as foundations for political argumentation.
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[Divine etiology in the Hebrew Bible: points of contact with Greek literature].
Simon Byl has explored all the passages in the Hebraic Bible where God is considered sometimes the cause of disease, sometimes the means of healing. He reveals a great number of points of view common to the Biblical literature and to the Ancient Greek literature, with regard to divine aetiology.
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Medicine in the Holy Bible.
The study of history of medical science from non-medical sources needs no apology. At first sight the discussion of what was thought in the past rather than what is known now appears to be of merely anti-quarian value. The Hebrews can be proud of having preserved in the Old Testament many old medical practices and traditions which throw light on ancient medicine in general and on Hebrew medical practices in particular. The Bible is a genuinely documented book presenting the wisdom, medical knowledge and the culture of a nomadic race.
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[Gynecology and obstetrics in the Bible. I. From procreation to pregnancy].
The Bible illustrates some interesting views on the matter of Gynecology and Obstetrics. Beside the Old and New Testaments, some Apocrypha have to be discussed for their content about this subject. This article concerns the following points: impregnation, formation of the human embryo, Eve's creation, indirect fecundation and spermatic pollution, bi-sexuality of the first man, libido, signs of virginity, female infertility, incest, multiparity, post-menopausal conception, the fructifying powers of amulets, plants and seeds, the course of pregnancy and antenatal care, normal and difficult labour, premature birth (was Moses premature?), perineal tears, the first birth without pain, twin pregnancy, procidentias, breech delivery, maternal deaths, midwives and Pharaoh, nursing, swaddling, breast-feeding and weaning of the baby. Uncleanliness and purification of the woman following childbirth or during menstruation according to levitical advice are discussed.
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[Gynecology and obstetrics in the Bible. II. Labor and the puerperium].
The bible illustrates some interesting views on the matter of Gynecology and Obstetrics. Beside Old and New Testaments, some Apocryphas have to be discussed for their contents about this subject. This article concerns the following points: impregnation, formation of the human embryo, Eve's creation, indirect fecundation and spermatic pollution, bi-sexuality of the first man, libido, signs of virginity, female infertility, incest, multiparity, post-menopausal conception, the fructifying powers of amulets, plants and seeds, the course of pregnancy and antenatal care, normal and difficult labour, premature birth (was Moses premature?), perineal tears, the first birth without pains, twin pregnancy, procidentias, breech delivery, maternal deaths, midwives and Pharaoh, nursing, swaddling, breast-feeding and weaning of the baby. Uncleanliness and purification of the woman following childbirth or during menstruation according to levitic advices are discussed.
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