Beyond Dreckapotheke, Between Facts and Feces: Talmudic Recipes and Therapies in Context

Lehmhaus, Lennart; Martelli, Matteo

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“…While all three traditions share this overall structure, the exact sequence, comprehensiveness, and content of these texts and the various lists contained vary significantly. For a discussion of the non-eclectic but creative momentum of knowledge-making and the different topics covered by those lists (i.e., biology; the human body; diet, health and illness; biblical events, figures and places; linguistic peculiarities; rituals and customs; dream interpretation; astrology/astronomy; cosmology; eschatology; ethics; scholarly etiquette), see Lehmhaus 2015, esp. 71-83.…”

Section: Midrashic List-making: Between Verse Exegesis and Ethical Di...mentioning

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Lore and Order: Enlisting Rabbinic Epistemology

Lehmhaus

2022

Forms of List-Making: Epistemic, Literary, and Visual Enumeration

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This chapter explores the diverse manifestations of lists in rabbinic texts of late antiquity and their complex strategies of structuring, producing, and conveying knowledge through lists. The discussion is embedded within a broader perspective on lists as didactic and epistemic tools within ancient cultures of the Mediterranean and the Middle East. I argue that lists play an important role in the production of knowledge in premodern Jewish culture. The following examples aim to demonstrate that in Talmudic medical discourse, in legal prescriptions, in exegetical and in ethical midrashic texts, lists function as a versatile “epistemic form.” Lists shaped the rabbinic collections of law and lore that functioned simultaneously as cultural inventories, store houses of knowledge, and practical reference works. They thus facilitate the transfer of knowledge of the world and of the body into the world of the rabbinic study house and eventually into the quasi-canonical Talmudic corpus, an encyclopedic body of knowledge.

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Lore and Order: Enlisting Rabbinic Epistemology

Lehmhaus

2022

Forms of List-Making: Epistemic, Literary, and Visual Enumeration

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“…63 Cf. Noy 1988Fonrobert 2000;Wandrey 2003;Balberg 2011Balberg , 2015Kiperwasser 2012;Jaffe 2015;Amit 2017;Lehmhaus 2015Lehmhaus , 2016aLehmhaus , 2016bLehmhaus , 2017aLehmhaus , 2017bLehmhaus , 2019. On the so-called "Book…”

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Defining Jewish Medicine. Transfer of Medical Knowledge in Premodern Jewish Cultures and Traditions

2021

Episteme in Bewegung Beiträge Zu Einer Transdisziplinären Wissensgeschichte

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Since its inception in July 2012, the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period", based at the Freie Universität Berlin, has been engaging with processes of knowledge change in premodern European and non-European cultures.The project aims at a fundamentally new approach to the historiography of knowledge in premodern cultures. Modern scholars have frequently described premodern knowledge as static and stable, bound by tradition and highly dependent on authority, and this is a view that was often held within premodern cultures themselves.More often than not, modern approaches to the history of premodern knowledge have been informed by historiographical notions such as 'rupture' or 'revolution', as well as by concepts of periodization explicitly or implicitly linked to a master narrative of progress.Frequently, only a limited capacity for epistemic change and, what is more, only a limited ability to reflect on shifts in knowledge were attributed to premodern cultures, just as they were denied most forms of historical consciousness, and especially so with respect to knowledge change. In contrast, the CRC 980 seeks to demonstrate that premodern processes of knowledge change were characterised by constant flux, as well as by constant self-reflexion. These epistemic shifts and reflexions were subject to their very own dynamics, and played out in patterns that were much more complex than traditional accounts of knowledge change would have us believe.In order to describe and conceptualise these processes of epistemic change, the CRC 980 has developed a notion of 'episteme' which encompasses 'knowledge' as well as 'scholarship' and 'science', defining knowledge as the 'knowledge of something', and thus as knowledge which stakes a claim to validity. Such claims to validity are not necessarily expressed in terms of explicit reflexion, however -rather, they constitute themselves, and are reflected, in particular practices, institutions and modes of representation, as well as in specific aesthetic and performative strategies.In addition to this, the CRC 980 deploys a specially adapted notion of 'transfer' centred on the re-contextualisation of knowledge. Here, transfer is not understood as a mere movement from A to B, but rather in terms of intricately entangled processes of exchange that stay in motion through iteration even if, at first glance, they appear to remain in a state of stasis. In fact, actions ostensibly geared towards the transmission, fixation, canonisation and codification of a certain level of knowledge prove particularly conducive to constant epistemic change. VI PrefaceIn collaboration with the publishing house Harrassowitz the CRC has initiated the series "Episteme in Motion. Contributions to a Transdisciplinary History of Knowledge" with a view to showcase the project's research results and to render them accessible to a wider scholarly audience. The volumes published in this series represent the full scope of colla...

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Talmudic Torment: Late Antique Jewish Texts on Pain and Suffering Between Medicine, Martyrdom, andAskesis

Lehmhaus

2022

Journal of Early Christian History

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Beyond Dreckapotheke, Between Facts and Feces: Talmudic Recipes and Therapies in Context

Cited by 4 publications

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Lore and Order: Enlisting Rabbinic Epistemology

Lore and Order: Enlisting Rabbinic Epistemology

Defining Jewish Medicine. Transfer of Medical Knowledge in Premodern Jewish Cultures and Traditions

Talmudic Torment: Late Antique Jewish Texts on Pain and Suffering Between Medicine, Martyrdom, andAskesis

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