JUDAISM SCIENCE AND COSMOLOGY IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Abstract
Judaism has been traditionally supportive of science and nowhere is this more evident than in the intense involvement of Jews with medicine. In biblical times considerable care was taken to ensure the highest possible standards of public health. To prevent contagion the Hebrews insisted upon quarantine, burning or scalding of infected garments and utensils, thorough scrubbing and fumigation of houses suspected of infection and scrupulous inspection and purification of the diseased person following recovery (Lv 13)Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this Journal.
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