Mesopotamian medicine and magic : studies in honor of Markham J. Geller /
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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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2018.
Series:
Ancient Magic and Divination
14.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004390805.
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Call Number: R135.3
- 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.