Title: Encyclopedia of medicine in the Bible and the Talmud /
Authors: Rosner, Fred.
Publisher: Jason Aronson,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Judaism; Religion and Medicine; Medicine in the Bible Encyclopedias.; Medicine in rabbinical literature Encyclopedias.
Abstract: "This new reference work allows readers to share in the centuries-old fascination of the study of medicine in the Bible and Talmud. In the Middle Ages, the majority of the best known Jewish thinkers, philosophers, poets and grammarians were physicians by occupation - men like Maimonides, the Ibn Ezras, the Tibbons, and countless others. Since the first systematic treatises on medicine in the Bible and Talmud were published in the seventeenth century, a great number of people, Jews and non-Jews, physicians, scientists, historians, clergy, and laymen have contributed, in varying degrees, to this field.