Search the Scriptures

Dozens of biblical personages are viewed through the eyes of a physician scholar of the last third of the twentieth century. To cast the light of today's medicine on many questions is Dr. Greenblatt's pleasant task. How did the unarmed boy, David, defeat the well armed giant, Goliath? How did Saul of Tarsus become St. Paul, to cast his great influence on Christianity? Why did Joseph flee Potiphar, his master's wife? Are fasting, isolation, circumcision so much the practices of religion as they are public health? and much more....