Download or read book Leisure, Pleasure and Healing written by Esti Dvorjetski and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with leisure, pleasure and healing at the spas in the eastern Mediterranean basin since the biblical era throughout the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, and early Muslim periods focusing on daily life, healing cults, medical recommendations and treatments at the curative spas.