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Renal and Rectal Disease Texts

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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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  • 17 August 2005
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Previous volumes of Franz Köcher’s series on Babylonian and Assyrian medical literature have provided autograph copies of cuneiform medical tablets with extensive indices listing all known parallel passages. The present volume edits all of the tablets listed in volumes 1–6 of Babylonisch-assyrische Medizin dealing with renal and rectal diseases. Many of the British Museum sources have been known from fragments, copied by R. Campbell Thompson in his Assyrian Medical Texts (1923), but many new joins have been made since that time, and hence tablets dealing with renal and rectal diseases have been copied and edited in the present volume. Although some of these medical texts have been previously translated by R. Campbell Thompson in 1929 and 1934, these translations are now generally considered to be inadequate by modern standards. Most of these medical texts are being made available to Assyriologists and medical historians for the first time. One interesting feature is how seldom magic and magical rituals feature within these medical recipes.

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Price: $250.00
Pages: 292
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter
Publication Date: 17 August 2005
ISBN: 9783110179644
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: HIS026000 HISTORY / Middle East / General, MED039000 MEDICAL / History
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Markham J. Geller ist Professor für Semitische Sprachen am Institut für Hebraistik und Judaistik am University College, London.



Markham J. Geller is Professor of Semitic Languages in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London, Great Britain.