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Religion and Remedy: Medicine in Classical Jewish Texts

Please join us for this year’s distinguished faculty lecture. In this lecture, Dr. Deena Aranoff will examine the role of the healing arts in Biblical and Rabbinic texts, as well as in the writings of Moses Maimonides. She will argue that the healing arts inhabit a relatively weak position in early, classical Jewish texts, but become more prominent in the medieval period. Finally, she will explore the possibility that religious activity and assembly might contain within them the remedies sorely needed for our time.

Dr. Rebecca Esterson will offer a response.

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