Asaph the Jew

Asaph the Jew (Biblical Hebrew: אסף היהודי‎ Assaf HaYehudi, also known as Asaph ben Berechiah, Asaph Judaeus and Hebrew: אסף הרופא‎ Asaph HaRofe = Asaph the Physician) was a Byzantine Jew[1] the first Hebrew medical writer.[2] He lived somewhere from the third to the seventh century,[2] corresponding to the post-Talmudic period. His work, Sefer Refuot "Book of Medicines", was one of the most important preserved Hebrew medical works.[3] The "Oath of Asaph" resembles the Hippocratic Oath[2][4] and was taken by medical students at their graduation.[5]

The Assaf HaRofeh Medical Center of Israel is named after him.

References

  1. ↑ Holo, J. Byzantine Jewry in the Mediterranean Economy 2009, p. 174
  2. 1 2 3 Rosner, Fred (1995). "Oath of Asaph". Medicine in the Bible and the Talmud: Selections from Classical Jewish Sources. KTAV Publishing House. pp. 182–186. ISBN 9780881255065.
  3. ↑ Shatzmiller, Joseph (1994). Jews, Medicine, and Medieval Society. University of California Press. p. 11. ISBN 9780520080591.
  4. ↑ Vaisrub, Samuel; A. Denman, Michael; Naparstek, Yaakov; Gilon, Dan (2008). "Medicine". Encyclopaedia Judaica. The Gale Group.
  5. ↑ "Oath of Asaph". Encyclopedia of Bioethics. The Gale Group Inc. 2004.
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