Medicine in Bible and Talmud
all sessions of the EABS Program Unit
convenors: Markham J. Geller and Lennart Lehmhaus (SFB 980 “Episteme in Motion”, Freie Universität Berlin)
The Conference Program Book is available online.
1-17
Medicine in Bible and Talmud (EABS)
8/01/2018
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Room: Room 403 – Fabianinkatu 26, Kielikeskus
Theme: Magico-medical Knowledge and Practices among Jews and Others in (Late) Antiquity, Part 1
Markham Geller, Freie Universität Berlin, Presiding
Mihi Yang, Claremont School of Theology
Comparison of Hezekiah’s Healing (Isaiah 38) (40 min)
Annette Weissenrieder, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Spittle in Biblical Texts and “Popular” and Rational Medicine (40 min)
Lennart Lehmhaus, Freie Universität Berlin
Textual Healing: Magico-medical Practices in Rabbinic Texts Reconsidered (40 min)
2-15
Medicine in Bible and Talmud (EABS)
8/02/2018
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Room: Auditorium II – Fabianinkatu 33, Päärakennus
Theme: Magico-medical Knowledge and Practices among Jews and Others in (Late) Antiquity, Part 2
Annette Weissenrieder, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding
Rebecca Lesses, Ithaca College
Women and Ritual Healing in the Aramaic Incantation Bowls (40 min)
Markham Geller, Freie Universität Berlin
A Recipe is a Recipe: Medicine in the Talmud (40 min)
Rivka Elitzur-Leiman, Tel Aviv University
A Magic Recipe from the Book of Mysteries (Sefer Ha-Razim) in a Late-Antique Jewish Amulet (40 min)
3-11
Medicine in Bible and Talmud (EABS)
8/03/2018
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Room: Room 21 – Fabianinkatu 33, Päärakennus
Theme: Magico-medical knowledge and practices among Jews and others in (Late) Antiquity III
Lennart Lehmhaus, Freie Universität Berlin, Presiding
Emunah Levy, Bar Ilan University
Magic and Rational Medicine in the Twelfth-Century Manuscripts of the Book of Medicines of Asaf the Physician (40 min)
Zahra Kazani, University of Victoria, Canada
Magic Embodied: Rethinking the Relationship between Script, Geometry, and Magical Ideas in the Kitab al-Diryaq (Book of Antidotes) (40 min)
Ferda Barut, Anadolu University
The Anargyroi (Physician Saints) in Early Christianity and Their Reflections on the Painting Programme of Byzantine Churches in Cappadocia (40 min)
This research unit and its panels at the EABS/SBL meetings are supported by the Collaborative Research Center – SFB 980 Episteme in Motion of Freie Universität Berlin and the German Research Foundation/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
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