In the Wake of the Compendia : : Infrastructural Contexts and the Licensing of Empiricism in Ancient and Medieval Mesopotamia / / ed. by J. Cale Johnson.
In the Wake of the Compendia presents papers that examine the history of technical compendia as they moved between institutions and societies in ancient and medieval Mesopotamia.This volume offers new perspectives on the development and transmission of technical compilations, looking especially at t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (326 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction
- A. The Infrastructural Compendium
- Encyclopaedias and Commentaries
- Compendia and Procedures in the Mesopotamian Astral Sciences
- Listenwissenschaft and the Encyclopedic Hermeneutics of Knowledge in Talmud and Midrash
- B. Licensing Empiricism: Replication and Authority in Mesopotamian Technical Literature
- ‘Tested’ Remedies in Mesopotamian Medical Texts
- Theory and Practice in the Syriac Book of Medicines
- The ‘Science of Properties’ and its Transmission
- Between Demonology and Hagiology
- C. The Two Paradigms: Towards a New Textual Criticism for Mesopotamian Technical Compendia
- The Babylonians and the Rational
- Phenomena in Writing
- Depersonalized Case Histories in the Babylonian Therapeutic Compendia
- Source index
- Subject index
- Word index