Medical Recipes in the Talmud: What They Teach Us Beyond Medicine
Medical Recipes in the Talmud: What They Teach Us Beyond Medicine
The Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies presents:
A lecture: “Medical Recipes in the Talmud: What They Teach Us Beyond Medicine”
Dr. Monika Amsler (PhD, Surich 2018), Post-doctoral research fellow at the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Noon – 2 PM
2120 Francis Scott Key Hall, 4282 Chapel Lane, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
The Babylonian Talmud repeatedly cites medical recipes. These recipes have often been termed irrational, folkloristic or even magical by modern scholars.
Yet, the recipes are in line with Greco-Roman medical trends persisting from the fourth through the seventh centuries, and are part of a common store of medical knowledge perpetuated throughout the ancient Middle East.
The distinctive style of these recipes, comparable to Greek and Syriac templates, allows us to reconstruct an original medical treatise. This in turn sheds light on the procedures adapted in the composition of the Talmud.
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Event Flyer: https://jewishstudies.umd.edu/sites/jewishstudies.umd.edu/files/amsler_by_hl_0.pdf