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17: 137:. Scholars in favor of Asaph’s historicity suggest that he might have lived somewhere between the 3rd and 7th Centuries CE, possibly in Byzantine Palaestina or Mesopotamia. However, the text itself from which Asaph is known seems to place him between 149:, the only known historical Jewish text to mention Asaph (and which he may have written or contributed to), is the earliest known Hebrew medical work, and thus of great historical significance. The "Oath of Asaph" found in the text resembles the 145:, which if chronological would imply that he might have been thought to have been between the 5th Century BCE and 1st Century CE, though this is very uncertain. The 222:
Lieber, Elinor (1984). "Asaf's "Book of Medicines": A Hebrew Encyclopedia of Greek and Jewish Medicine, Possibly Compiled in Byzantium on an Indian Model".
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medical writer, he is however a rather uncertain figure who some have suggested is identifiable with the legendary mystical vizier
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Medicine in the Bible and the Talmud: Selections from Classical Jewish Sources
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Vaisrub, Samuel; A. Denman, Michael; Naparstek, Yaakov; Gilon, Dan (2008).
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Holo, J. Byzantine Jewry in the Mediterranean Economy 2009, p. 174
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and was taken by medical students at their graduation.
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/ˈ.sæfˈðəˈdʒu/
Ay-saf
Hebrew
Hebrew
Sefer Refuot
Byzantine Jew
Hebrew
Asif ibn Barkhiya
King Solomon
Hippocrates
Pedanius Dioscorides
Hippocratic Oath
Yitzhak Shamir Medical Center
Israel


"Oath of Asaph"
ISBN
9780881255065
doi
10.2307/1291508
ISSN
0070-7546
JSTOR
1291508
Jews, Medicine, and Medieval Society
ISBN
9780520080591
"Medicine"

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