“Nurses, Midwives, Healers, and Talmudic Medical Encyclopedism”
by L. Lehmhaus
The talk examines Talmudic discourse on healthcare as an arena of cultural competition and transfer between Jews and non-Jews. It is part of the 55th Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins with the theme “What Did Ancient Jews Know? Exploring the Place of Scientific Knowledge in the World of Ancient Judaism”
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Religious Studies
Thursday, December 7, 2017
For further information, visit: https://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/psco/year55/2017-12-07.shtml
Lennart Lehmhaus, currently a Rothfeld Fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (UPenn) in Philadelphia, is a postdoctoral researcher in the collaborative project on Ancient Medical Compendia (CRC/SFB 980 “Episteme in Motion”) directed by M. J. Geller and Ph. J. van der Eijk at Freie Universiät Berlin/Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
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