Medicine in the Talmud – Natural and Supernatural Therapies between Magic and Science

"A groundbreaking study that introduces readers to intriguing Talmudic healing therapies (not to be tried at home). Mokhtarian integrates this rabbinic knowledge firmly in the interdisciplinary discourses of late antiquity, a move that refines and corrects many prevailing assumptions about these enduring traditions."--Christine Shepardson, author of Controlling Contested Places: Late Antique Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy

"In this easy-to-read and engaging work, Jason Sion Mokhtarian demonstrates how the Babylonian rabbis thoroughly and eagerly participated in knowledge gathering and making across ethnic and cultural boundaries in late antique Mesopotamia."--Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Associate Professor of Religion, Haverford College