Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Professor Joshua O. Leibowitz -- Chairman’s Introductory Remarks / Joshua O. Leibowitz -- A Talmudic Lesson / Rabbi Adin Steinsalz -- Vindication of Jewish Cultural Anthropology / Samuel S. Kottek -- Anthropological Contributions to Biblical and Talmudic Medicine [Abstract] / Y. Bilu -- Mental Health: Biblical and Talmudic Directives / Reuven P. Bulka -- Time, Gender and Purity in Jewish Law [Abstract] / S. Cooper -- Man and Disease According to the Book of Job / Georg Fohrer -- On the Medical Tradition of Shunamitism (I Kings 1–4) / Danielle Gourevitch -- The Roots of Jewish Sobriety / L. D. Hankoff -- The Meaning of Disease and Healing in Relation to Sin and Forgiving / Mechthild von Heusinger -- G. Groddeck (1866—1934) on Genesis / Yaacov Heymann -- Wholeness and Holiness in Sifrei Segulot / Hagit Matras -- Antoninus and Rabbi on the Soul: Stoic Elements of a Puzzling Encounter / Stephen Newmyer -- The Talmudic-Midrashic “Healing Stories” as a Narrative Genre / Dov Noy -- The Midrash and Psychonarrative Therapy [Abstract] / M. Rotenberg -- On the Diagnostic Part of Psychiatric Demonology [Abstract] / G. Roth -- Body and Soul in Talmudic and Mishnaic Sources / Nissan Rubin -- The Meaning of Life, Death and the Transitional Period / Avraham Steinberg -- Symbolic Significance of Hair in the Biblical Narrative and in the Law / H. Trau , N. Rubin , and S. Vargon -- Two Types of Impurity in the Priestly Writings of the Bible / David P. Wright -- Psychiatry and Self in Bible and Talmud: The Example of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Enemy Herem / Allan Young -- How to Relate to Talmudic Medicine an Example of Traditional Relativism / Henri Atlan and David Stone -- Mastering Pain Through Application of the Law: A Case Study [Abstract] / J. Fraenkel -- Jewish Medicine and Renaissance Epistemology: Ethical and Scientific Encounters / James L. Fuchs and Mordecai Plaut -- Case Studies of Emotional Stress in the Aged [Abstract] / S. J. Herman -- The Curse of Water Pollution in Israel and in the Ancient Near East / Samuel Ivry -- “He Looked in the Liver” (Ezekiel 21:26): The Medical Origins of Liver Divination / Elinor Lieber -- Philosophical Observations on Maimonides’ Critique of Galen / Shalom Rosenberg and Charles H. Manekin -- The Earliest Western Account of Talmudic Medicine / Francis Schiller -- Rav Huna’s Views on Medicine and Public Health / Nathan Shapiro -- Childbirth in the Bible / Helen Wessel.

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