Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues : Medicine, Magic and Divination / edited by Ulrike Steinert.
Material type: TextSeries: Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen ; Bd. 9.Publication details: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, July 2018.Description: 1 online resource (390 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
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Annotation The reconstruction of ancient Mesopotamian medical, ritual and omen compendia and their complex history is still characterised by many difficulties, debates and gaps due to fragmentary or unpublished evidence. This book offers the first complete edition of the Assur Medical Catalogue, an 8th or 7th century BCE list of therapeutic texts, which forms a core witness for the serialisation of medical compendia in the 1st millennium BCE. The volume presents detailed analyses of this and several other related catalogues of omen series and rituals, constituting the corpora of divination and healing disciplines. The contributions discuss links between catalogues and textual sources, providing new insights into the development of compendia between serialization, standardization and diversity of local traditions. Though its a novel corpus-based approach, this volume revolutionizes the current understanding of Mesopotamian medical texts and the healing disciplines of "conjurer" and "physician." The research presented here allows one to identify core text corpora for these disciplines, as well as areas of exchange and borrowings between them
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction / Steinert, Ulrike -- Part 1. Studies on Mesopotamian Text Catalogues -- On Three Tablet Inventories / Finkel, Irving L. -- A Babylonian Hippocrates / Geller, Markham J. -- Towards a New Perspective on Babylonian Medicine / Johnson, J. Cale -- Notes on the Assur Medical Catalogue with Comparison to the Nineveh Medical Encyclopaedia / Panayotov, Strahil V. -- The Catalogues of Enūma Anu Enlil / Rochberg, Francesca -- Esagil-kīn-apli's Catalogue of Sakikkû and Alamdimmû / Schmidtchen, Eric -- Catalogues, Texts and Specialists / Steinert, Ulrike -- Part 2. Text Sources -- 1. The Assur Medical Catalogue (AMC) / Steinert, Ulrike -- 2. The Exorcist's Manual (KAR 44) / Geller, M.J. -- 3 The Edition of Esagil-kīn-apli's Catalogue of the Series Sakikkû (SA. GIG) and Alamdimmû / Schmidtchen, E. -- Plates -- List of Illustrations -- Indices
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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