Medicine in the Talmud

Medicine in the Talmud
Author: Jason Sion Mokhtarian
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2022-05-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520389417

Medicine on the margins -- Trends and methods in the study of Talmudic medicine -- Precursors of Talmudic medicine -- Empiricism and efficacy -- Talmudic medicine in its Sasanian context.

Biblical and Talmudic Medicine

Biblical and Talmudic Medicine
Author: Julius Preuss
Publisher: Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Total Pages: 686
Release: 2004-10-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1461627605

This is a translation of the 1911 Biblisch-Talmudiesche Medizin , an extensively researched text that gathers the medical and hygienic references found in the Jewish sacred, historical, and legal literatures, written by German physician and scholar Julius Preuss (1861-1913).

Encyclopedia of Medicine in the Bible and the Talmud

Encyclopedia of Medicine in the Bible and the Talmud
Author: Fred Rosner
Publisher: Jason Aronson
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2000
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780765761026

"Encyclopedia of Medicine in the Bible and the Talmud includes many items dealing with the field of Jewish medical ethics and serves as an important tool for those who wish to read about or research medical and related topics as found in traditional biblical and talmudic sources.".

Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests

Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests
Author: Jason Sion Mokhtarian
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0520286200

"Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests brings into mutual fruition the fields of Talmudic Studies and Ancient Iranology, two historically distinct disciplines. Mokhtarian offers a revisionist history of the rabbis of late antique Persia who produced the Babylonian Talmud, perhaps the most important corpus in the Jewish sacred canon. While most research on the Talmud assumes that the rabbis were an insular group isolated from the cultural horizon outside of the rabbinic academies, this book contextualizes the rabbis and Talmud within a broader socio-cultural orbit by drawing from a wide range of sources from Sasanian Iran, including Middle Persian Zoroastrian literature, archaeological evidence, and the Jewish Aramaic magical bowls"--Provided by publisher.

Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals

Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals
Author: Mira Wasserman
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2017-05-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0812249208

In Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals, Mira Beth Wasserman undertakes a close reading of Avoda Zara, arguably the Babylonian Talmud's most scandalous tractate. According to Wasserman, Avoda Zara is where this Talmud joins the humanities in questioning what it means to be a human.

Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics

Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics
Author: Fred Rosner
Publisher: Feldheim Publishers
Total Pages: 1290
Release: 2003
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781583305928

Ethical issues in modern medicine are of great concern and interest to all physicians and health-care providers throughout the world, as well as to the public at large. Jewish scholars and ethicists have discussed medical ethics throughout Jewish history.

Medicine in the Talmud

Medicine in the Talmud
Author: Jason Sion Mokhtarian
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2022-07-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520384040

Despite the Talmud being the richest repository of medical remedies in ancient Judaism, this important strain of Jewish thought has been largely ignored—even as the study of ancient medicine has exploded in recent years. In a comprehensive study of this topic, Jason Sion Mokhtarian recuperates this obscure genre of Talmudic text, which has been marginalized in the Jewish tradition since the Middle Ages, to reveal the unexpected depth of the rabbis’ medical knowledge. Medicine in the Talmud argues that these therapies represent a form of rabbinic scientific rationality that relied on human observation and the use of nature while downplaying the role of God and the Torah in health and illness. Drawing from a wide range of both Jewish and Sasanian sources—from the Bible, the Talmud, and Maimonides to texts written in Akkadian, Syriac, and Mandaic, as well as the incantation bowls—Mokhtarian offers rare insight into how the rabbis of late antique Babylonia adapted the medical knowledge of their time to address the needs of their community. In the process, he narrates an untold chapter in the history of ancient medicine.

Illness and Health in the Jewish Tradition

Illness and Health in the Jewish Tradition
Author: David L. Freeman (M.D.)
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1999
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780827606739

"The premise of the Jewish attitude toward illness is that living is sacred, that good health enables us to live a fully religious life, and that disease is an evil. Any effective therapy is permitted, even if it conflicts with Jewish law. To bring about healing is a responsibility not only of the person who is ill and of the professional caregivers, but also of the loved ones, and of the larger circle of family, friends, and community." "Illness and Health in the Jewish Tradition is an anthology of traditional and modern Jewish writings that highlights these basic principles."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved