Il malato e la malattia nella tradizione biblica e rabbinica
This paper examines the topic of the sick person and sickness in the biblical and rabbinical context, where God can be the only, true doctor, because God alone can dispense joy and suffering. Sickness, therefore, takes on a specifi cally symbolic meaning and denotes a person’s relat...
| Published in: | Annali di studi religiosi |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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2007
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Annali di studi religiosi
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| Summary: | This paper examines the topic of the sick person and sickness in the biblical and rabbinical context, where God can be the only, true doctor, because God alone can dispense joy and suffering. Sickness, therefore, takes on a specifi cally symbolic meaning and denotes a person’s relationship with God, which – in some manner – must be restudied. Hebrew medicine, which formed on deeply religious bases and in tight connection with the pact of allegiance between God and his people, become more and more specialized over time: here the love for science and the deeply innate respect for the norms contained in the Pentateuch merged miraculously. From the very beginning of the history of Israel, ethics and medicine are therefore securely linked and the principles contained in the Holy Scriptures are embedded in the therapeutic methods: the fundamental ones regard an absolute respect for human life and the imperative of not hurting oneself and others |
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| ISSN: | 2284-3892 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Annali di studi religiosi
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