The project A03 „The Transfer of Medical Episteme in the ‘Encyclopaedic’ Compilations of Late Antiquity”, run by BabMed Principal Investigator Prof. Markham J. Geller in the framework of the Comparative Research Center SFB 980 “Episteme in Motion”, is featured at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) in San Antonio, Texas.
Lennart Lehmhaus, A03 post-doc research associate, will present preliminary outcomes of the project. In his talk “Medical knowledge, social interactions and authority of tradition in Talmudic texts” (20.11.2016), Lehmhaus surveys rabbinic discourses that facilitated exchanges and transfers of medical concepts.
In the group “Religious competition in Late Antiquity”, Lehmhaus will present a paper on “Competing for bodies of knowledge: Medical expertise between rabbis and others in Late Antiquity” (21.11.2016) that discusses rabbinic strategies of dealing with medical experts as well as with religious (Christian) experts who engaged in the field of medicine.
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