Mesopotamian medicine and magic : : studies in honor of Markham J. Geller / / edited by Strahil V. Panayotov, Ludek Vacin ; with the assistance of Gene Trabich.
Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic. Studies in Honour of Markham J. Geller is a thematically focused collection of 34 brand-new essays bringing to light a representative selection of the rich and varied scientific and technical knowledge produced chiefly by the cuneiform cultures. The contributions con...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ancient Magic and Divination
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxxi, 936 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright Page
- Preface
- Markham J. Geller: An Appreciation
- Bibliography of Markham J. Geller
- Vetitive and Prohibitive: An Observation / Tzvi Abusch
- Sons of Seth and the South Wind / Amar Annus
- An Old Babylonian Oil Omen Tablet from the British Museum / Netanel Anor
- Disease and Healing in the Book of Tobit and in Mesopotamian Medicine / Annie Attia
- A Transtextual View on the “Underworld Vision of an Assyrian Prince” / Johannes Bach
- The 34th Extract of the UGU Series from Babylon: An Edition of the Tablet BM 35512 / András Bácskay
- Budge’s Syriac Book of Medicines after One Hundred Years: Problems and Prospects / Siam Bhayro and Stefanie M. Rudolf
- An Old Babylonian List of Sheep Body Parts (BM 29663) / Yoram Cohen
- Putting Theory into Practice: Kiṣir-Aššur’s Expertise between Textual Knowledge and Practical Experimentation / M. Erica Couto-Ferreira
- A Brief Look Eastward / Sona Choukassizian Eypper
- Two Old Babylonian Incantation Tablets, Purportedly from Adab (A 633 and A 704) / Walter Farber
- Of tirku, Moles and Other Spots on the Skin according to the Physiognomic Omens / Jeanette C. Fincke
- Amulets against Fever / Irving L. Finkel
- A Tale of Two Lands and Two Thousand Years: The Origins of Pazuzu / Eckart Frahm
- Hermeneutics and Magic in the Commentary to Marduk’s Address to the Demons / Uri Gabbay
- A New Medical Therapeutic Text on Rectal Disease / Nils P. Heeßel
- Mesopotamian Magic in Text and Performance / Sam Mirelman
- Divine Privilege of the Rich and Powerful? Seeking Healing of Illness by Presenting a Luxurious Gift / Takayoshi M. Oshima and Greta Van Buylaere
- BM 32339+32407+32645: New Evidence for Late Babylonian Astrology / Mathieu Ossendrijver
- Thunders, Haloes, and Earthquakes: What Daniel Brought from Babylon into Arabic Divination / Lucia Raggetti
- At the Dawn of Plant Taxonomy: Shared Structural Design of Herbal Descriptions in Šammu šikinšu and Theophrastus’ Historia plantarum IX / Maddalena Rumor
- Simplicia and Unpublished Fragments of Alamdimmû from the British Museum / Eric Schmidtchen
- Spiegel des Himmels: Synchronisation von Himmel und Erde in der babylonischen Leberschau, Iatromathematik und dem 20-Felder-Spiel / Marvin Schreiber
- Elpetu-Rush, Inanna and the Flood: A Tale of Human Ingratitude / JoAnn Scurlock
- BAM 7 44: Suppositories for Rectal and Gastro-Intestinal Diseases / Krisztián Simkó
- A Time to Extract and a Time to Compile: The Therapeutic Compendium Tablet BM 78963 / Henry Stadhouders and J. Cale Johnson
- From Awe to Audacity. Stratagems for Approaching Authorities Successfully: The Istanbul Egalkura Tablet A 373 / Henry Stadhouders and Strahil V. Panayotov
- BM 92518 and Old Babylonian Incantations for the “Belly” / Ulrike Steinert and Luděk Vacín
- Teeth and Toothache / Marten Stol
- Die Fliege und der Tod: Beschwörungen gegen Tiere / Marie-Louise Thomsen
- Ninmaḫ and Her Imperfect Creatures: The Bed Wetting Man and Remedies to Cure Enuresis (STT 238) / Lorenzo Verderame
- “If His Chin Is Constantly Slack…”: A New Text on the Verge between Physiognomic and Diagnostic Omens / Klaus Wagensonner
- Five Birds, Twelve Rooms, and the Seleucid Game of Twenty Squares / John Z. Wee
- BM 33055: A Late Babylonian Clay Tablet with Figures and Captions / Frans A.M. Wiggermann.