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best general survey of the field
4. Steven Newmyer,"Asaph the Jew and Greco-Roman Pharmaceutics"; Irene and Walter Jacob , (ed.) The Healing Past, pp 107 ff
5. Maimonides . Medical Treatises, Vol 1, II, III, tr. Fred Rosner , New York , 1970?; Fred Rosner , Medicine in the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides , New York , 1984
6. Wilhelm Ebstein and Benno Jacob , Die Medizin im Alten Testament, Stuttgart , 1901; Julius Preuss , Op. Cit.; Harry Friedenwald , Jews and Medicine, Vol I and II, 1944, Baltimore ; this book provides a good bibliography of works in modern European languages as well as a list of Jewish
18. Daniel Jeremy Silver, Maimonidean Criticism and the Maimonidean Controversy 1180-1240, Leiden , 1965.
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). Yad Hil. Avel 4.5; Tur and Shulhan Arukh, Yoreh Deah 339 and Isslerles.
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1. Perishah to Tur, Yoreh Deah 339.
22. Genesis 2.7: Genesis 2.8; b. Kid 29b; b. Pes 49a; b. Ber. 16a; b. Git 41b; b. Yeb. 61b ff, Yad Hil, Ishot 15 Tur, Shulhan Arukh Even Haezer
24. Nu 6.8: Lev 10.8 ff: 21: I Sam 1.11. There is a tractate of the Mishnah devoted to the Nazarites . but we should note that there is no gemara on it. Furthermore, some of the Nazarite vows were temporary. All of this was dropped by later rabbinic Judaism . In the Biblical period the Rechabites were also mentioned as an ascetic group, but we know almost nothing about them(Jer. 35. II K 10.15 ff; Neh 3.14 f). In rabbinic literature they were discussed occasionally(b. B.B. 92b; M. Ta-anit 4.5; b. Sotah 11a, Sifrei Num. 78, etc.).
25. Josephus , Antiquities, XIII 5, 9; XVIII 1,2; B.J. II 8, 2-13; and Philo . For an excellent discussion and bibliography see G. Vermes , F. Millar , M. Black, eds., Emil Schiirer, The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ, Vol 2, Edinburgh , 1979, pp 555 ff.
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