Jason Sion Mokhtarian is Associate Professor and Herbert and Stephanie Neuman Chair in Hebrew and Jewish Literature at Cornell University. He is author of Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests: The Culture of the Talmud in Ancient Iran.
"""Integrating and analyzing with clarity and depth an immense range of sources, Mokhtarian painstakingly shows the emergence of rabbinic medical culture. . . . This book, which one peruses with undiminished attention from cover to cover, is a fine piece of scholarship that addresses a large and diverse audience."" * Religious Studies Review *"