Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic

Studies in Honor of Markham J. Geller
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36806-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 936 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1457 g

Reihe: Ancient Magic and Divination

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 concentrate mainly on Mesopotamian scholarly descriptions and practices of diagnosing and healing diverse physical ailments and mental distress. The festschrift contains both critical editions of new texts as well as analytical studies dealing with various issues of Mesopotamian medical and magical lore. Currently, this is the largest edited volume devoted to this topic, significantly contributing to the History of Ancient Sciences.

“This is a broad survey of many aspects of Babylonian culture, and reflects the intellectual climate of the world encountered by the exiles.”

-Nick Wyatt, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 43.5 (2019)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Panayotov, Strahil V.

Vacín, Ludek

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altorientalische Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Leben & Brauch, Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Markham J. Geller: An Appreciation
Irving L. Finkel

Bibliography of Markham J. Geller
Strahil V. Panayotov and Ludek Vacín

1 Vetitive and Prohibitive: An Observation
Tzvi Abusch

2 Sons of Seth and the South Wind
Amar Annus

3 An Old Babylonian Oil Omen Tablet from the British Museum
Netanel Anor

4 Disease and Healing in the Book of Tobit and in Mesopotamian Medicine
Annie Attia

5 A Transtextual View on the “Underworld Vision of an Assyrian Prince”
Johannes Bach

6 The 34th Extract of the UGU Series from Babylon: An Edition of the Tablet BM 35512
András Bácskay

7 Budge’s Syriac Book of Medicines after One Hundred Years: Problems and Prospects
Siam Bhayro and Stefanie M. Rudolf

8 An Old Babylonian List of Sheep Body Parts (BM 29663)
Yoram Cohen

9 Putting Theory into Practice: Ki?ir-Aššur’s Expertise between Textual Knowledge and Practical Experimentation
M. Erica Couto-Ferreira

10 A Brief Look Eastward
Sona Choukassizian Eypper

11 Two Old Babylonian Incantation Tablets, Purportedly from Adab (A 633 and A 704)
Walter Farber

12 Of tirku, Moles and Other Spots on the Skin According to the Physiognomic Omens
Jeanette C. Fincke

13 Amulets against Fever
Irving L. Finkel

14 A Tale of Two Lands and Two Thousand Years: The Origins of Pazuzu
Eckart Frahm

15 Hermeneutics and Magic in the Commentary to Marduk’s Address to the Demons
Uri Gabbay

16 A New Medical Therapeutic Text on Rectal Disease
Nils P. Heeßel

17 Mesopotamian Magic in Text and Performance
Sam Mirelman

18 Divine Privilege of the Rich and Powerful? Seeking Healing of Illness by Presenting a Luxurious Gift
Takayoshi M. Oshima and Greta Van Buylaere

19 BM 32339+32407+32645: New Evidence for Late Babylonian Astrology
Mathieu Ossendrijver

20 Thunders, Haloes, and Earthquakes: What Daniel Brought from Babylon into Arabic Divination
Lucia Raggetti

21 At the Dawn of Plant Taxonomy: Shared Structural Design of Herbal Descriptions in Šammu šikinšu and Theophrastus’ Historia plantarum IX
Maddalena Rumor

22 Simplicia and Unpublished Fragments of Alamdimmû from the British Museum
Eric Schmidtchen

23 Spiegel des Himmels: Synchronisation von Himmel und Erde in der babylonischen Leberschau, Iatromathematik und dem 20-Felder-Spiel
Marvin Schreiber

24 Elpetu-Rush, Inanna and the Flood: A Tale of Human Ingratitude
JoAnn Scurlock

25 BAM 7 44: Suppositories for Rectal and Gastro-Intestinal Diseases
Krisztián Simkó

26 A Time to Extract and a Time to Compile: The Therapeutic Compendium Tablet BM 78963
Henry Stadhouders and J. Cale Johnson

27 From Awe to Audacity. Stratagems for Approaching Authorities Successfully: The Istanbul Egalkura Tablet A 373
Henry Stadhouders and Strahil V. Panayotov

28 BM 92518 and Old Babylonian Incantations for the “Belly”
Ulrike Steinert and Ludek Vacín

29 Teeth and Toothache
Marten Stol

30 Die Fliege und der Tod: Beschwörungen gegen Tiere
Marie-Louise Thomsen

31 Ninma? and Her Imperfect Creatures: The Bed Wetting Man and Remedies to Cure Enuresis (STT 238)
Lorenzo Verderame

32 “If His Chin Is Constantly Slack…”: A New Text on the Verge between Physiognomic and Diagnostic Omens
Klaus Wagensonner

33 Five Birds, Twelve Rooms, and the Seleucid Game of Twenty Squares
John Z. Wee

34 BM 33055: A Late Babylonian Clay Tablet with Figures and Captions
Frans A.M. Wiggermann

Index of Divine Names
Index of Personal Names
Index of Geographical Names
Index of Texts

Über Autor(innen)

Strahil V. Panayotov, Ph.D. (2014) University of Sofia, is a postdoc in BabMed, the ERC advanced project at the Freie Universität Berlin. He has published and edited monographs and articles on various Assyriological topics, and is currently preparing with M.J. Geller a critical edition of the Mesopotamian Eye Disease Texts. The Nineveh Treatise (Die Babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen 10).

Ludek Vacín, Ph.D. (2011), SOAS London, spent two years at the MPIWG, then assisted M.J. Geller in the publication of the Udug-hul incantation series at the Freie Universität Berlin. Now he works at the University of Hradec Králové, Czechia. His main interests are Sumerian literature, royal ideology, and intellectual culture. He has published articles on those topics and edited the Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Memory of Blahoslav Hruška (Islet, 2011).