Keywords
illness
health
Torah
How to Cite
Abstract
That which is implied in the Torah as “health” and “illness” is not completely related to current Western culture perception of the issue. In ancient Israel, Yahweh is the main agent of its health and wellbeing; and the fulfillment of the Torah is prophylaxis against all kinds of health problems. It is this religious framework the one which allows the understanding of the biological dysfunction and the health problems mentioned in the Torah (infertility, physical disorders, skin diseases…) based on what the modern anthropology of health understands as the three dimensions of health problems: the biological one (disease), the subjective one (illness), and the social one (sickness).
This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.