Medicine in ancient Assur : a microhistorical study of the Neo-Assyrian healer Kiṣir-Aššur /
"In Medicine in Ancient Assur Troels Pank Arbøll offers a microhistorical study of a single exorcist named Kiṣir-Aššur who practiced medical and magical healing in the ancient city of Assur (modern northern Iraq) in the 7th century BCE. The book provides the first detailed analysis of a heal...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2021]
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Colección: | Ancient magic and divination,
vol. 18 |
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures and Tables
- Abbreviations and Symbols
- Symbols and Further Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1.1 Colophons
- 1.2 Mesopotamian Medicine
- 1.3 Authorship
- 1.4 Proof and Possibility
- 1.5 Scope and Structure
- Framework and Background
- 2.1 Microhistory
- 2.2 Framework
- 2.3 Background for Studying Kiṣir-Aššur
- 2.4 Quantifying and Contextualizing Kiṣir-Aššur's Texts
- Kiṣir-Aššur's Magico-Medical Education as šamallû ṣeḫru
- 3.1 Complex Diagnoses in Kiṣir-Aššur's šamallû ṣeḫru Texts
- 3.2 Principles Understood Through Examples
- 3.3 The Head: BAM 9
- 3.4 The "Strings" and "Inner" Body
- 3.5 Snakes, Scorpions and Horses: A Discussion of RA 15 pl. 76
- 3.6 Gaining an Understanding of Anatomy and Physiology
- 3.7 Preparation for Other Duties as šamallû ṣeḫru
- 3.8 Summary
- Training in Anatomy and Physiology as šamallû ṣeḫru
- 4.1 The Role of Venom in Kiṣir-Aššur's Anatomical Understanding
- 4.2 Veterinarian Knowledge in Kiṣir-Aššur's Education
- 4.3 Excursus: Animal Variants of Human Illnesses
- 4.4 Animal and Human Physiology: The Reverse of RA 15 pl. 76
- 4.5 Summary
- Further Apprenticeship: šamallû to mašmaššu ṣeḫru
- 5.2 The šamallû mašmaššu ṣeḫru-phase
- 5.3 The mašmaššu ṣeḫru-phase
- 5.4 Excursus: The ša Nabû tuklassu-phrase
- 5.5 Summary
- Kiṣir-Aššur's mašmaššu-phase
- 6.1 Texts with Colophons Including the Title mašmaššu
- 6.2 Making House Calls: Discussion of KAR 230
- 6.3 Ritually Protecting the Houses of Clients: Discussion of KAR 298
- 6.4 Namburbi-rituals and House Calls: KAL 4 no. 7 and LKA 115
- 6.5 Other Technical Literature: CT 37 pl. 24f.
- 6.6 Summary
- Additional Texts that May Belong to the mašmaššu-phase
- 7.1 Omission and Inclusion of Titles
- 7.2 Tablets Without Kiṣir-Aššur's Professional Title
- 7.3 Tablets with Broken Colophons
- 7.4 The mašmaššu-phase and Purpose Statements
- 7.5 A Discussion of the Dated Tablet KAR 267
- 7.6 Other Technical Literature: BAM 307 and ACh Supp. 2 24
- 7.7 Summary
- Kiṣir-Aššur's mašmaš bīt Aššur-phase
- 8.1 The Title mašmaš bīt Aššur
- 8.2 Medical Texts from Kiṣir-Aššur's mašmaš bīt Aššur-phase
- 8.3 Tested Prescriptions Among the Medical Texts
- 8.4 Panaceas Among the Medical Texts
- 8.5 Ritual Texts from Kiṣir-Aššur's mašmaš bīt Aššur-phase
- 8.6 Texts Connected to the Aššur Temple
- 8.7 Summary
- Situating Kiṣir-Aššur's Knowledge Production
- 9.1 Kiṣir-Aššur's Overall Medical Focus
- 9.2 Numbered Nisḫu-extracts
- 9.3 Catch-lines and Duplicate Passages in Kiṣir-Aššur's Texts in Relation to the Therapeutic Series Ugu
- 9.4 The Exorcist's Manual (EM)
- 9.5 Kiṣir-Aššur and the Scholarly Traditions in Assur
- 9.6 Summary
- Synthesis and Conclusion
- Catalogue of Texts
- Edition of RA 15 pl. 76
- Transliteration
- General Observations
- Commentary
- Bibliography 346
- Index.