Ronit
Yoeli-Tlalim
Jody Ellant and Howard Reiter Family Fellow
Research Topic
The Human Body in Sefer Asaf: Eurasian Inputs and Thirteenth-Century Kabbalah
Bio
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim is a professor emerita in the History Department at Goldsmiths, University of London. She held their Wellcome University Award from 2010 to 2016. Her research addresses the transmission of medical knowledge along the so-called “Silk-Roads.” Recently, she has focused on early Tibetan medicine and early Jewish medicine, both of which are discussed in her 2021 book, ReOrienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters along the Silk Roads. Her current book project explores Sefer Asaf.
Yoeli-Tlalim received her Ph.D. in the Study of Religions from SOAS, University of London.
Selected publications
- ReOrienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters along the Silk Roads (Bloomsbury, 2021).
- Dynamic Balances: Public Health in the Premodern World, coedited with G. Geltner and J. Coomans (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
