Format:
1 Online Ressource (x, 326 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781501502507
Series Statement:
Science, technology, and medicine in ancient cultures volume 3
Content:
STMAC aims to advance an inter-disciplinary and inclusive approach to the study of science in the ancient world, ranging from mathematics and physics, medicine and magic to astronomy, astrology, and divination and covering the Mediterranean world, the Near (Middle) East, and Central and East Asia. The series is open to different types of publications including monographs and edited volumes as well as text editions and commentaries.
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- A. The Infrastructural Compendium -- Encyclopaedias and Commentaries -- Compendia and Procedures in the Mesopotamian Astral Sciences -- Listenwissenschaft and the Encyclopedic Hermeneutics of Knowledge in Talmud and Midrash -- B. Licensing Empiricism: Replication and Authority in Mesopotamian Technical Literature -- 'Tested' Remedies in Mesopotamian Medical Texts -- Theory and Practice in the Syriac Book of Medicines -- The 'Science of Properties' and its Transmission -- Between Demonology and Hagiology -- C. The Two Paradigms: Towards a New Textual Criticism for Mesopotamian Technical Compendia -- The Babylonians and the Rational -- Phenomena in Writing -- Depersonalized Case Histories in the Babylonian Therapeutic Compendia -- Source index -- Subject index -- Word index.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501510762
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe American Oriental Society (223. : 2013 : Portland, Or.) In the wake of the compendia Boston : de Gruyter, 2015 ISBN 1501510762
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501510762
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Mesopotamien
;
Wissenschaft
;
Literatur
;
Geschichte
Author information:
Johnson, J. Cale 1971-
