ABSTRACT
In recent years, however, a considerable amount of new research has emerged on several key dimensions of this larger subject: on ancient Jewish magic and medicine; on the Jewish medical profession in the Middle Ages; on medieval astrology and astronomy; on Jewish translators of scientific texts; and on earlymodern medical and scientific thought, to name only a few subjects. We are in a better position to offer a provisional overview of a vast and fruitful field of inquiry, one that needs to be incorporated into the larger history of interactions between science and religion in Western civilization as a whole.
