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Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues
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Franz Köcher's magnum opus on Babylonian and Assyrian medicine, which was envisioned to include cuneiform copies, translations, and commentary, was unfinished at his death in 2002 with six volumes ...
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09 July 2018

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compendia and their complex history is still characterised by many difficulties, debates and gaps due to fragmentary or unpublished evidence.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.
Price: $280.00
Pages: 390
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter
Publication Date:
09 July 2018
ISBN: 9781501513633
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
MED039000 MEDICAL / History, REL006090 RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament, REL114000 RELIGION / Ancient
Ulrike Steinert, Freie Universität, Berlin.
Ulrike Steinert, Free University Berlin, Germany.