BARKAI, Ron
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Les Infortunes de Dinah: Le livre de la génération. La gynécologie juive au Moyen-Age. Edited and translated by Ron Barkai.Paris: Cerf, 1991.Critical edition and French translation of Doeg ha-Edomi's late twelfth-century text, the Sefer ha-Toledet (The Book of Generation), a Hebrew translation of the Latin Gynecology of Muscio set in the form of a dialogue between the Biblical tragic heroine Dina and her father.
Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Jewish Medicine, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY |
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A history of Jewish gynaecological texts in the Middle Ages.Leiden & Boston: Brill, 1998."A general introduction to the history of medieval Jewish medicine, its origins in Muslim countries, the main Arabic and Judeo-Arabic texts, and the renaissance of Hebrew as a language of science in the 12th-15th centuries is followed by a survey and analysis of the 15 extant medieval Jewish gynaecological texts (including translations from Greek, Latin and Arabic as well as original Hebrew treatises) and a comparison of the particular characteristics of Jewish gynaecology to the Latin and Arabic traditions. In the second part of the work the author presents critical editions [in Hebrew] with translations of six medieval Jewish gynaecological texts" (publisher). Subjects: Jews and Medicine › History of Jews and Medicine, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › History of Medieval Medicine, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY › History of Gynecology |