God´s health code - Ángel Duarte Martínez

What if the Bible’s instructions about food, hygiene, rest, isolation, and community life could be read not only theologically, but also through the lens of medicine and public health?

In God’s Health Code, physician, gastroenterologist, bioethicist, and biblical scholar Ángel Duarte Martínez explores the fascinating meeting point between Scripture and human health.

Drawing on biblical anthropology, gastroenterology, microbiology, epidemiology, medical ethics, and pastoral care, this book examines how the Torah’s concern for food, ritual purity, bodily boundaries, sanitation, rest, fasting, aging, leadership, illness, and community may reveal a remarkably coherent preventive logic.

Rather than claiming that the Bible is a modern medical textbook, God’s Health Code carefully distinguishes ancient context from contemporary science. Its central question is more disciplined: Where do biblical practices and modern medical knowledge show functional convergence, and what can that dialogue teach us about human health today?

Readers will explore the biblical meaning of shalom as wholeness; the dietary principles of Leviticus; microbiota and digestive health; fasting and cellular repair; hygiene and epidemiology in the Israelite camp; the relationship between stress, emotion, and the body; responsible approaches to illness and spiritual interpretation; pastoral burnout; healthy aging; and the healing role of community.

Written for health professionals, pastors, theologians, Bible students, educators, and thoughtful general readers, this interdisciplinary work offers a balanced conversation between faith and science without confusing their proper boundaries.

God’s Health Code invites readers to rediscover biblical health not simply as the absence of disease, but as integrity, order, responsibility, and care for the whole person.