Melothesia in Babylonia : : Medicine, Magic, and Astrology in the Ancient Near East / / Markham Judah Geller.
This monograph begins with a puzzle: a Babylonian text from late 5th century BCE Uruk associating various diseases with bodily organs, which has evaded interpretation. The correct answer may reside in Babylonian astrology, since the development of the zodiac in the late 5th century BCE offered innov...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures ,
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Introduction: Globalisation of Knowledge
- I. The Uruk ‘taxonomy’ (SBTU I 43)
- II. Uruk Astral Magic (BRM 4 20 and BRM 4 19)
- III. The Neo-Assyrian Precursor: Before the Zodiac
- IV. Ancient Aramaic and Greek Parallels
- V. Astrological Interpretation of SBTU I 43
- VI. Melothesia
- VII. Concluding Hypothesis
- VIII. Appendix: Modern Reflections
- Indices