Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary : a Ancient Mesopotamian Commentaries on a Handbook of Medical Diagnosis (Sa-gig) /

Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary is intended for historians of medicine and interpretation, and explores the dynamic between scholastic rhetoric and medical knowledge in ancient commentaries on a Mesopotamian Diagnostic Handbook. In line with commentators' self-fashioning as experts...

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Main Author: Wee, John (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Series: Cuneiform Monographs ; 49/1.

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