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This volume deals with the medical and paramedical topics, compiled from the works of Flavius Josephus, the Jewish historian who lived in the first century C.E. in Judea, and later in Rome. The study of medicine from ancient Jewish sources has focused on the Bible and the Talmud, the content of which is primarily theological and cultural. The present work reveals two main trends. Josephus' paraphrase of the Biblical narrative introduced a number of additions and/or discrepancies which bear on medicine. Moreover, his account of the Jewish War and of contemporary political events includes many...

This book of essays illustrates many aspects of Jewish medical ethics at the end of life. Written by experts in their various fields, the topics reveal traditional and contemporary Jewish attitudes from medical, ethical, historic and academic perspectives. The editors are medical historians with a special interest in Jews and medicine, so the scope of the book includes historic as well as halakhic topics, and the interplay between the ethical and historic disciplines, covering many eras and themes, shows concern for contemporary clinical issues.