Defining Jewish medicine : transfer of medical knowledge in premodern Jewish cultures and traditions / edited by Lennart Lehmhaus.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lehmhaus, Lennart, editor.

Series:

Episteme in Bewegung ; Bd. 8.

Episteme in Bewegung, 2365-5666 ; Band 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Medicine.

Jews.

Medicine, Ancient.

Medicine, Medieval.

Medicine--Religious aspects.

Medicine.

Judaism.

Diffusion of innovations.

Religion and Medicine.

Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice.

Diffusion of Innovation.

History, Ancient.

History, Medieval.

judaism.

Medical Subjects:

Religion and Medicine.

Judaism.

Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice.

Diffusion of Innovation.

History, Ancient.

History, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 382 pages)

Place of Publication:

Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021.

Summary:

The present volume brings together a group of scholars from diverse fields in Jewish studies who deal with Jewish medical knowledge from ancient to medieval times, applying a comparative approach to the subject. Based on a variety of methodological and theoretical concepts, they address strategies of interaction with earlier Jewish traditions and the deep embeddedness in other, often religiously shaped discourses (exegesis, ethics, Talmudic law and lore). 0Special attention is paid to the complex interplay between literary forms and the knowledge conveyed. Diachronic approaches also explore the complex ways of transmission, transfer, rejection, modification and invention of medical knowledge. Possible contexts and points of contacts can be found in medical thinking and practices in surrounding cultures (Ancient Near East, Graeco-Roman, Byzantine, Persian-Iranian, Syriac and medieval Western Christianity, early Islamic). 0Such a twofold perspective allows for assessing particularities of Jewish medical discourses within Jewish cultural history and their trans-cultural interaction with other medical traditions. Moreover, these studies may serve as a starting point to further inquiries into the role of these exchanges and entanglements, not only within a broader history of medicine, science and knowledge, but also for the history of cultures and religions at large.

Contents:

Part 1. Introduction, history of scholarship, and bibliography

part 2. Ancient Jewish medical discourses in comparative perspective

part 3. Historicity, authority and legitimacy of medical knowledge : tradition, transfer and cultural negotiations

part 4. Jewish medical episteme around the Mediterranean in the Medieval period.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

e-book version

Print version: Defining Jewish medicine.

ISBN:

3447108266

9783447108263

OCLC:

1257558382

Publisher Number:

9783447108263

Access Restriction:

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