Curator: Ofra Rimon

Illness and Healing in Ancient Times

Ofra Rimon- Preface
Nili Shupak- 'And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm 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 Time of the Bible, the Mishnah and the Talmud in Light of Written Sources
Ofra Rimon- Surgical Instuments from the Roman Period

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