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c. 50 – Aulus Cornelius Celsus died, leaving De Medicina, a medical encyclopedia; Book 3 covers mental diseases.The term insania, insanity, was first used by him. The methods of treatment included bleeding, frightening the patient, emetics, enemas, total darkness, and decoctions of poppy or henbane, and pleasant ones such as music therapy, travel, sport, reading aloud, and massage.
Many cultures throughout history have speculated on the nature of the mind, heart, soul, spirit, brain, etc. For instance, in Ancient Egypt, the Edwin Smith Papyrus contains an early description of the brain, and some speculations on its functions (described in a medical/surgical context) and the descriptions could be related to Imhotep who was the first Egyptian physician who anatomized and ...
Timeline for the History of Judaism; The History of the Jewish People The Jewish Agency; The Avalon Project at Yale Law School The Middle East 1916–2001: A Documentary Record; Historical Maps and Atlases at Dinur Center; Crash Course in Jewish History (Aish) The Year by Year History of the Jewish People – by Eli Birnbaum; Ministry of ...
Rather than the paternal God figure encountered in Hebrew tradition, "Jewish Science views God as an energy or force penetrating the reality of the universe. God is the source of all reality, and not separate from but a real part of our world." [1] His fundamental teachings are found in his 1916 book Jewish Science: Divine Healing in Judaism.
Ancient Jewish history is known from the Bible, extra-biblical sources, apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, the writings of Josephus, Greco-Roman authors and church fathers, as well as archaeological finds, inscriptions, ancient documents (such as the Papyri from Elephantine and the Fayyum, the Dead Sea scrolls, the Bar Kokhba letters, the Babatha ...
The history of ancient Israel and Judah spans from the early appearance of the Israelites in Canaan's hill country during the late second millennium BC, to the establishment and subsequent downfall of the two Israelite kingdoms in the mid-first millennium BC.
During the growth of the ancient civilizations, ancient technology was the result from advances in engineering in ancient times.These advances in the history of technology stimulated societies to adopt new ways of living and governance.
Early Jewish apocalyptic literature represents the beginning of a systematic or scientific curiosity about the origins and structure of the cosmos. [1] The earliest Jewish writings to discuss cosmology outside of the Bible is the Astronomical Book (earlier) and the Book of the Watchers, both of which have been compiled into the Book of Enoch ...