Description: 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. The extr...
Review Quotes: "Dr. Fred Rosner's current literary offering to an avid readership that has benefited so greatly from his facile pen and lucid expositions for more than three decades will surely be welcomed enthusiastically. Those of us, whose professional lives bring us into daily contact with the ethical and moral dilemmas on the interface of medical practice, biblical and talmudic law custom, in addition to the thousands of learned laity, owe a special thanks to the author. Encyclopedia of Medicine in the Bible and the Talmud is a masterful presentation, in capsule form, of the basic concepts of Judaism as they relate to modern medicine and technology as well as a historical read of the biomedical subjects discussed in the early writings of the Talmudists. Selected references permit the student-reader to delve further into the subjects that hold his or her interest. It is an essential publication to be in every home and school library." --Moshe David Tendler, Ph.D., Yeshiva University