Medicine-Healing

 

 

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Books

 

Davis, Eli, The Quack: a Tale of Diabetics, Rheumatics, Olives (Jerusalem: Ruben Mass, 1986)

 

Friedwald, Harry, the Jews and Medicine [2 vols.] (Baltimore: 1944)

 

Jacob, I. & Jacob, W., The Healing Past: Pharmaceuticals in the Biblical and Rabbinic World (Leidem: Brill, 1993)

 

Kagan, S.R., Jewish Medicine (Boston: 1952)

 

Melzer, Aviv, Asaph the Physician—The Man and his Book: A Historical-Philological Study of the Medical Treatise, the Book of Drugs (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin: 1972)

 

Muntner, Sussman, Mavo le-Sefer 'Asaf ha-Rofe (Jerusalem: Genizah, 1967)

 

Preis, K., Dei Medizin in der Kabbala (Frankfurt a.M.: 1928)

 

Preuss, J., Biblical and Talmudic Medicine (NY: Sanhedrin, 1978)

 

Venetianer, Ludwig, Asaf Judaeus: Der Aelteste Medicinizinsche Schrifsteller in Hebraeischer Sprache (Budapest: 1915)

 

Zimmels, Hirsch Jacob, Magicians, Theologians, and Doctors: Studies in Folk Medicine and Folklore and Reflected in the Rabbinical Responsa 12th -19th Centuries         (London: E. Goldston, 1952) (Nortvale, NJ: Jason Aaronson, 1997)

 

Articles in Periodicals and Chapters in Books

 

Amundsen, Daniel W., & Ferngren, Gary B., “Medicine and Religion: Pre-Christian Antiquity,” in M. Marty (ed.), Health/Medicine and the Faith Tradition (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1982), pp. 53-92

 

Bar-Sela, A., & Hoff, H.E., “Asaf on Anatomy and Pyhsiology,” JHM 20 (1965), 358  389

 

Bilu, Yoram, “Rabbi Wazana: A Jewish Healer in the Atlas Mountains,” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 12 (1988), 113-135

 

Buchler, A., "A 12th Century Physicians Desk Book, the 'Secreta Sectretorium' of Petrus Alphonsi-Quondam-Moses-Sephardi," JJS 57:2 (1986), 206-212

 

Flusser, David, “Qumran and Medicine,” in Illness and Healing in Ancient Times (Haifa, Israel: Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum, 1996), pp. 30-31

 

Geller, Markham J., “Akkadian Medicine in the Talmud,” in Dan Cohn-Sherbock (ed.), A Traditional Quest: Essays in Honour of Louis Jacobs (Sheffield: JSOT   Supplement Series 114, 1991), 102-112

 

Lieber, E., "An Ongoing Mystery: the So-called Book of Medicines Attributed to Assaf the Sage," Bulletin of Judeo-Greek Studies 6 (1991), 18-25

 

Lieber, E., “Asaf’s Book of Medicines: A Hebrew Encyclopedia of Greek and Jewish Magic, Possibly Compiles on an Indian Model,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 38 (1984), 233-249

 

Lieber, E., “The Covenant Which Asaf…and Yohanan…Made with their Pupils,” in J.O. Leibowitz (ed.), Muntner Memorial Volume  (Jerusalem: Israel Institute for the  History of Medicine, 1983), pp. 83-87

 

Muntner, Sussman, "The Antiquity of Asaph the Physician and his Editorship of the Earliest Hebrew Book of Medicine," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 25 (1951), 101-131

 

Muntner, Sussman, “Asaf ha-Rofe, Sefer ha-Refuoth,” Koroth 3 (1965), 396-422

 

Muntner, Sussman, “Asaph ha-Rofe,” Ecyclopedia Judaica (Jerusalem: Keter, 1971), Vol. 3. pp. 673-675

 

Muntner, Sussman, “Donnolo et la contribution des Juifs aux premieres oeuvres de la medicine salernitaine” Revue d’histoire de la medecine hebraique 9 (1956), 155-161

 

Newmyer, S., “Asaph the Jew and Greco-Roman Pharmaceutics,” in I. Jacob & W. Jacob (eds.), Pharmaceuticals in the Biblical and Rabbinic World (Leiden, Brill, 1993), pp. 107-120

 

Noy, Dov, "Talmudic-Midrashic 'Healing Stories' as a Narrative Genre," in Koroth 9 (1988), 124-146

 

Nudelman, Anita, “Divination as Prevention of Illness and other Life Problems,” in Tudor Parfitt & Emanuela Trevisan Semi (eds.), The Beta Israel in Ethopia and Israel (Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1999), pp. 264-274

 

Pines, Shlomo, "The Oath of Asaph the Physician and Yohanan ben Zabda: Its Relation to the Hipocratic Oath and the Doctrina Duarum Viarum of the Didachii," Proceedings of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities 5 (1976), 223- 264


Shapiro, N., “R. Huna’s Views on Medicine and Public Health,” Koroth 9 (1988),  262-269

 

 

Shatzmiller, Joseph, “In Search of the ‘Book of Remedies’: Medicine and Astrology in Montpellier at the Turn of the Fourteenth Century,” AJS Review 7-8 (1982-1983),  pp. 383-407

 

Steinschneider, Moritz, "Assaf," Hebraische Bibliographe 12 (1872), 85-88

 

Steinschneider, Moritz, "Zur Medizinischen Literatur: Assaf, " Hebraische Bibliographe 19 (1879), 35-38, 64-70, 84-89, 105-109

 

Steinschneider, Moritz, “Medicinische Handschriften,” Magazin fur die Wissenschaft des Judenthums 10 (1883), 101-112, 157-169

 

Steinschneider, Moritz, “Zur medicinishen Literature,” HB 17 (1877), 56ff., 114ff.; 19 (1879), 35, 64, 84, 105, 108

 

Veltri, Giussepe, "Magic in Ancient Judaism: the Key to Understanding Medicine, Sciences, and the Arts?" Judaism Today 10 (1998), pp. 11-14

 

Wellesz, J., “Volksmedizinishces aus dem judischen Mittelalter,” MJV 35 (1910), 117-120

 

Yahuda, Abraham Shalom, “ Medical and Anatomical Terms in the Pentateuch in the Light of Egyptian Medical Papyri,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied   Sciences 2:4 (1947), 549-574

 

Books of Seguloth

 

Admon, Bosmat, Ben Mordekhai, Elisha, & Morag, Eli, Segulot, lehashim u-keme`ot lefi Yahadut (Hod ha-Sharon: Astrolog, 1995)

 

Al kishuf, vidui, `ayin ra`ah, keme`ot, u-segulot (Jerusalem: Kol Israel, 1975, 1995) [1 sound cassette]

 

Kokah, Avraham, Sefer Et ratson (Bene-Berak: A. Kokah, 1998)

 

Laniado, David, Segulot le-hatslahah le-refu’ah ule-shemirah (Deal, NJ: Shelomo Laniado, 1992)

 

Lipschitz, Shabbethai, Sefer ha-hayim ha0nikra segulot Yisra’el (Mukachevo: Bi-defus Kohen ‘et Fried, 1905)

 

Maizlisch, Sha`ul, Ani ma’amin: keme`ot, segulot, minhagim (Tel Aviv: Yedi`ot Aharonot, 1996)

 

Matras, Hagit, Sifre segulot u-refu’ot be-Ivrit: tekhanim u-mekorot `al pi ha-sefarim ha rishonim asher yats’u la-or be-Eropah be-reshit ha-me’ah ha-18 (1997)

 

Palache, Hayyim, Sefer Refu’ah va-hayim (Jerusalem: Y. ben Y. Kohen, 1996)

 

Sefer ha-Segulot: ve-hu likut mi-sifre kodesh la-segulot ha-nehutsot le-khol adam `al tohorat ha-kodesh (Jerusalem: Mekhon ha-ketav, 1993)

 

Yitshak ben Eli`ezer, Sefer Refu’ah ve’hayim mi-Yerushalem (Jerusalem: Defus Yehudah vi-Yerushalayim, 1930)

 

Zakai, Aharon, Segulot u-tefilot (Jerusalem: 1988)

 

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