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1Recent advances in biomedical technology and therapeutic procedures have generated a moral crisis in modern medicine. The vast strides made in medical science and technology have created options that only a few decades earlier would have been relegated to the realm of science fiction. To a significant degree, humans now have the ability to exercise control over not only the ravages of disease but even over the very process of life and death. With the unfolding of new discoveries and techniques,…

There are many ways to approach the subject of biblical and talmudic medicine. One method is to study the Bible sequentially and identify medical passages and diseases. For example, in Genesis, the Bible. relates that when Abraham came to Egypt he told Pharaoh that Sarah was his sister and not his wife. As a result, Pharaoh took her, and God afflicted Pharaoh and his family with a mysterious disease (Gen. 12:17). What was this sickness? Later in the book of Genesis we are told that Sarah, at the age of ninety years, gave birth to Isaac. How was this possible? Did her m…