THE PHYSICIAN VS. THE HALAKHIC MAN: THEORY AND PRACTICE IN MAIMONIDES'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS TREATING GENTILES.
Ancient Jewish law took a strict approach to medical relationships between Jews and non-Jews. Sages forbade Jews to provide non-Jews with medical services: to treat them, circumcise them, or deliver their babies, in order to refrain from helping pagan-idolatrous society. Such law created particularl...
| Publicado en: | Journal for the Study of Religions & Ideologies Vol. 17; no. 49; pp. 18 - 32 |
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