DFG project: Maimonides' medical works
Management:
- Prof. Dr. Gerrit Bos
Collaborators:
- Dr. Recha Allgaier-Honal
Description:
Despite the increased interest of researchers in the cultural history of the Jews in the Middle Ages in recent decades, there are still areas that have been neglected. Among the disciplines that are particularly affected by this regrettable neglect in the field of Jewish studies is clearly the history of medieval Jewish medicine. There is still a lack of the most basic tools for its scientific research.
Description:
Despite the increased interest of researchers in the cultural history of the Jews in the Middle Ages in recent decades, there are still areas that have been neglected. Among the disciplines that are particularly affected by this regrettable neglect in the field of Jewish studies is clearly the history of medieval Jewish medicine. There is still a lack of the most basic tools for its scientific research.
In order to fundamentally improve this situation, a project has been initiated with the aim of critically publishing the following medical works by Maimonides:
On Asthma (in 2 volumes);
Medical Aphorisms (in 5 volumes);
Commentary on Hippocrates' aphorisms,
Poisons and their cure;
On hemorrhoids;
On sexual intercourse;
On the instructions for maintaining health and
On the explanation of some symptoms and the reaction to them.
The series is edited by Dr. Daniel C. Peterson and Dr. Morgan Davis at Brigham Young University Press, Provo, UT.
Already published::
- On Asthma, a parallel Arabic-English text, edited, translated, and annotated by Gerrit Bos, Provo, UT 2002.
- Medical Aphorisms, Treatises 1-5, a parallel Arabic-English edition, edited, translated, and annotated by Gerrit Bos, Provo, UT 2004.
- Medical Aphorisms, Treatises 6-9, a parallel Arabic-English edition, edited, translated, and annotated by Gerrit Bos, Provo, UT 2007.
- On Asthma, Vol. 2, critical editions of medieval Hebrew and Latin translations by Gerrit Bos and Michael R. McVaugh, Provo, UT 2008.
- On Poisons and the Protection against Lethal Drugs, a parallel Arabic-English edition, edited, translated, and annotated by Gerrit Bos, with critical editions of medieval Hebrew translations by Gerrit Bos and medieval Lation translations by Michael R. McVaugh, Provo, UT 2009.
- Medical Aphorisms, Treatises 10-15, a parallel Arabic-English edition, edited, translated, and annotated by Gerrit Bos, Provo, UT 2010.
- On Hemorrhoids, a new parallel Arabic-English edition and translation by Gerrit Bos, with critical editions of medieval Hebrew translations by Gerrit Bos and medieval Lation translations by Michael R. McVaugh, Provo, UT 2012.
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