This fine work is an academic and historical treatment of the various laws and rituals related to ancient Judaism in their Pentateuch, relative to dietary restrictions, the concept of sanitation, disinfection, and epidemic disease (specifically, leprosy.) It is quasi-revisionist in that the author spends some time attempting to explain the relevance of these practices from a then-modern late 19th century viewpoint (for example, swine being banned from consumption due to trichinosis, or single-crop field planting being related to crop rotation.)
46 pages.
