Peer-reviewed proceedings of a one-day
panel-section at the X. Congress of the European Association of Jewish
Studies (EAJS), 24.07.2014, at Sorbonne Université / École Normale
Supérieure (ENS), Paris
| Herausgeber: | Lehmhaus, Lennart |
| Reihe: |
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| Bandnummer: | 8 |
| Umfang/Format: | XII, 382 pages |
| Sprache: | English |
| Ausstattung: | Book (Hardback) |
| Abmessungen: | 17.00 × 24.00 cm |
| Gewicht: | 880g |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 09.06.2021 |
| Preise: | 85,00 Eur[D] / 87,40 Eur[A] |
| ISBN: | 978-3-447-10826-3 |
| DOI: | 10.13173/9783447108263 |
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).
Special 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).
Such 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.
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