Birth in Babylonia and the Bible
Subtitle: its Mediterranean setting
By: M. Stol ; with a chapter by F.A.M. Wiggermann.
Series: Cuneiform monographs,; 14
Publisher: Styx
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Groningen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Birth customs -- Iraq -- Babylonia.; Birth customs -- Mediterranean Region -- History.; Childbirth in the Bible.; Babylonia -- Social life and customs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-252) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Conception and embryology; title: Problems during pregnancy; title: Magic and the Divine; title: What is going to happen? Prognostics; title: Giving birth; title: The appearance of the baby; title: Midwifery and nursing; title: Birth in medical texts; title: Worries after birth; title: Lamas̆tu, daughter of Anu : a profile / F. A. M. Wiggerman.