Illness and Healing in Ancient Times

Curator: Ofra Rimon

The bilingual (Hebrew / English) catalogue contains the following articles:
 

Ofra Rimon - Preface
Nili Shupak -And Joseph Commanded His Servants the Physicians to Embalms His Father’ (Genesis 50:2):
The Physicians in the Joseph Story
Rivka Gerst - Gods of Medicine in the Greek and Roman World
Joe Zias - Health and Healing in the Land of Israel - A Paleopathological Perspective
Karl Reinhard and Peter Warnock - Archaeoparasitiology and the Analysis of the Latrine Pit Soils from the City of David
Joseph Naveh - Illnesses and Amulets in Antiquity
David Flusser - Qumeran and Medicine
Samuel S. Kottek - Demons and Diseases in Bible and Talmud
Esti Dvorjetski - Properties of Therapeutic Baths in Eretz-Israel in Antiquity
Yaakov Ashkenazi - Church Involvement in Medical Services in Byzantine Eretz-Israel
Zohar Amar - Medicinal Substances in Eretz-Israel in the Times of the Bible, the Mishnah and the Talmud in Light of Written Sources
Ofra Rimon - Surgical Instruments from the Roman Period
 

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