Medicine in the Talmud: Natural and Supernatural Therapies between Magic and Science pomegranate She befriends a homeless swindler

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Medicine in the Talmud: Natural and Supernatural Therapies between Magic and Science pomegranate She befriends a homeless swindlerDespite the Talmud being the richest repository of medical remedies in ancient Judaism, this important strain of Jewish thought has been largely ignoredeven as the study of ancient medicine has exploded in recent years. In a comprehensive study of this topic, Jason Sion Mokhtarian recuperates this obscure genre of Talmudic text, which has been marginalized in the Jewish tradition since the Middle Ages, to reveal the unexpected depth of the rabbis