Encyclopedia of Medicine in the Bible and the Talmud

by Fred Rosner

Book Overview

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 extraordinarily high number of Jews among Nobel Prize winners for medicine and physiology during the twentieth century attests to the age-old interest and expertise in medicine among...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765761025
• ISBN13: 9780765761026
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Jason Aronson
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"