Zoonotic Pandemics and Judaism's Early-Modern Turn to Science

Autor/in	Crane, Jonathan K.
Titel	Zoonotic Pandemics and Judaism's Early-Modern Turn to Science
Quelle	In: Electronic Journal for Research in Science & Mathematics Education, 25 (2021) 3, S.43-48 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Crane, Jonathan K.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2692-241X
Schlagwörter	Communicable Diseases; Pandemics; Judaism; Jews; Norms; Sciences; Religion; Evidence; Public Health + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Contagious disease; Contagious diseases; Communicable disease; Infektionskrankheit; Judaismus; Jew; Jude; Jüdin; Juden; Normwert; Science; Wissenschaft; Evidenz; Gesundheitswesen
Abstract	For thousands of years Jewish law was based on revelation and precedent. God's will, as revealed in scripture, was determinative: it demarcated what was permitted, required and prohibited. A contemporary rabbi could offer only a slight emendation of precedents. The early modern period, however, witnessed a dramatic shift in Jewish norm-making. A new source of knowledge, empirical evidence, became both valid and persuasive. Indeed, it could even override both revelation and precedent. What is so fascinating about this watershed moment in Jewish norm deliberation is that it spawns from an ancient concern about zoonotic diseases arising from pigs. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01