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Mesopotamian medicine and magic : studies in honor of Markham J. Geller /
Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic. Studies in Honour of Markham J. Geller is a thematically focused collection of 34 brand-new essays bringing to light a representative selection of the rich and varied scientific and technical knowledge produced chiefly by the cuneiform cultures. The contributions con...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Ancient magic and divination ;
14. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Markham J. Geller : an appreciation / Irving L. Finkel
- Bibliography of Markham J. Geller / Strahil V. Panayotov (Freie Universitat Berlin), Ludek Vacin (University of Hradec Kralove)
- Vetitive and prohibitive : an observation / Tzvi Abusch (Brandeis University)
- Sons of Seth and the south wind / Amar Annus (University of Tartu)
- An old Babylonian oil omen tablet from the British Museum
- Netanel Anor (Freie Universitat Berlin)
- Disease and healing in the Book of Tobit and in Mesopotamian medicine / Annie Attia (CNRS UMR 7192, Histoire de la Mesopotamie)
- A transtextual view on the "Underworld vision of an Assyrian prince" / Johannes Bach (Freie Universitat Berlin)
- The 34th extract of the UGU series from Babylon : an edition of the tablet BM 35512 / Andras Bacskay (Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Piliscsaba-Klotildliget)
- Budge's Syriac book of medicines after one hundred years : problems and prospects / Siam Bhayro (University of Exeter), Stefanie M. Rudolf (Freie Universitat Berlin)
- An Old Babylonian list of sheep body parts (BM 29663) / Yoram Cohen (Tel Aviv University)
- Putting theory into practice : Kisir-Assur's expertise between textual knowledge and practical experimentation / Erica Couto-Ferreira (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg)
- A brief look eastward / Sona Choukassizian Eypper (Freie Universitat Berlin)
- Two Old Babylonian incantation tablets, purportedly from Adab (a 633 and a 704) / Walter Farber (The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago)
- Of tirku, moles and other spots on the skin according to the physiognomic omens / Jeanette C. Fincke (Nino, Leiden and CNRS, Paris)
- Amulets against fever / Irving L. Finkel (The British Museum)
- A tale of two lands and two thousand years : the origins of Pazuzu / Eckart Frahm (Yale University)
- Hermeneutics and magic in the commentary to Marduk's address to the demons / Uri Gabbay (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
- A new medical therapeutic text on rectal disease / Nils P. Heessel (Julius-Maximilians-Universitat Wurzburg)
- Mesopotamian magic in text and performance / Sam Mirelman (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York)
- Divine privilege of the rich and powerful? : seeking healing of illness by presenting a luxurious gift / Takayoshi M. Oshima (Universitat Leipzig), Greta van Buylaere (Julius-Maximilians-Universitat Wurzburg)
- BM 32339+32407+32645 : new evidence for Late Babylonian astrology / Mathieu Ossendrijver (Humboldt Universitat Berlin)
- Thunders, haloes, and earthquakes : what Daniel brought from Babylon into Arabic divination / Lucia Raggetti (Freie Universitat Berlin)
- At the dawn of plant taxonomy : shared structural design of herbal descriptions in Sammu Sikinsu and Theophrastus' Historia plantarum IX / Maddalena Rumor (Case Western Reserve University)
- Simplicia and unpublished fragments of Alamdimmu from the British Museum / Eric Schmidtchen (Freie Universitat Berlin)
- Spiegel des Himmels : synchronisation von Himmel und erde in der Babylonischen leberschau, iatromathematik und dem 20-felder-spiel / Marvin Schreiber (Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin)
- Elpetu-rush, Inanna and the flood : a tale of human ingratitude / Joann Scurlock (Elmhurst College)
- BAM 7 44 : suppositories for rectal and gastro-intestinal diseases / Krisztian Simko (Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest)
- A time to extract and a time to compile : the therapeutic compendium tablet BM 78963 / Henry Stadhouders (Universiteit Utrecht), J. Cale Johnson (Universiteit Leiden)
- From awe to audacity. Stratagems for approaching authorities successfully : the Istanbul Egalkura tablet A 373 / Henry Stadhouders (Universiteit Utrecht), Strahil V. Panayotov (Freie Universitat Berlin)
- BM 92518 and Old Babylonian incantations for the "belly" / Ulrike Steinert (Freie Universitat Berlin), Ludek Vacin (University of Hradec Kralove)
- Teeth and toothache / Marten Stol (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
- Die fliege und der tod : beschworungen gegen tiere / Marie-Louise Thomsen (Wurzburg)
- Ninmah and her imperfect creatures : the bed wetting man and remedies to cure enuresis (STT 238) / Lorenzo Verderame ("Sapienza"-Universita di Roma)
- "If his chin is constantly slack ..." : a new text on the verge between physiognomic and diagnostic omens / Klaus Wagensonner (Yale University)
- Five birds, twelve rooms, and the Seleucid game of twenty squares / John Z. Wee (The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago)
- BM 33055 : a Late Babylonian clay tablet with figures and captions / Frans A.M. Wiggermann (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
- Index of divine names
- Index of personal names
- Index of geographical names
- Index of texts.