European Association of Jewish Studies, Xth Congress, Paris;
ESN, Rue d’Ulm
July 24, 2014, 9 am – 6 pm
Session 1
Federico Dal Bo (Berlin), A Fetus Shaped like a “Sandal”.
Reuven Kiperwasser (Stockholm/ Jerusalem), The Cure of Amnesia and the Metaphoric Physiology of Memory.
Kenneth Collins (Jerusalem/ Glasgow), The Fever that Nourishes: the Purpose of Fever in Rabbinic Texts.
Session 2
Samuel Kottek (Jerusalem), Caesarean Section in the Talmud and in Greco-Roman culture: A renewed examination.
Estee Dvorjetski (Haifa), Public Health in Jerusalem according to the Talmudic Literature: Reality or Vision?
Aviad Recht (Tel Aviv), ‘The Regimens of Health of the Sages’ – Hellenistic Medical Genre as Processed by the Sages.
Session 3
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (London), Asian Lore in the Hebrew Book of Asaf.
Tamas Visi (Olomouc/ Jerusalem), Uroscopy in Sefer Assaf.
Carmen Caballero-Navas (Granada), Women’s Secrets: An Assessment of the Early Stage of the Foundation of Hebrew Gynaecology.
Session 4
Shulamit Shinnar (New York), The Experiments of Cleopatra: Rabbinic Attitudes towards Other Ancient Medical Traditions.
Tirzah Meacham (Toronto), Physicians, Expertise and Halakha: Are Purity Issues Different?
Assaf Tamari (Beer Sheva), “For I the Lord am your healer”? The Medical Discourse of Lurianic Kabbalah and its Contexts.
Matteo Martelli/Lennart Lehmhaus (Berlin), Transfer of medical knowledge in Late Antique encyclopaedic traditions – a preliminary survey.
The panel on ‚Jewish Medicine‘ is organised and convened by Matteo Martelli (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and Lennart Lehmhaus (Freie Universität Berlin), members of the project A03 within the Collaborative Research Center SFB 980 – Episteme in Motion, headed by Prof. Philip van der Eijk (HUB) and Prof. Markham J. Geller (FUB).