> Famously, the "leprosy" of most translations of the Bible as far back as the Septuagint represents a multilayered historical process of confusion. The state of ritual impurity known to the Hebrews as tzara'ath (צָרַעַת, "struck")[9] seems to have been a conflation of various skin disorders, owing to the undeveloped state of medical science at that period.
Difficult to be certain that "leprosy" in the Bible is the same one we're talking about today.
mistrial9•2h ago
yes I read that, but the whole paper says that leprosy as we name it now, originated directly around that geographic area and was spread directly from there..
mistrial9•11h ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_leprosy
jackstraw42•7h ago
> Famously, the "leprosy" of most translations of the Bible as far back as the Septuagint represents a multilayered historical process of confusion. The state of ritual impurity known to the Hebrews as tzara'ath (צָרַעַת, "struck")[9] seems to have been a conflation of various skin disorders, owing to the undeveloped state of medical science at that period.
Difficult to be certain that "leprosy" in the Bible is the same one we're talking about today.
mistrial9•2h ago