UID:
edocfu_9958353373602883
Format:
1 online resource (336p.)
ISBN:
9781501502507
Series Statement:
Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures ; 3
Content:
In the Wake of the Compendia examines the composition of technical literature in the ancient Semitic-speaking world.Compendia on astrology, magic, medicine, lexicography, and alchemy were composed in several languages and relate to earlier Mesopotamian models.This volume offers new perspectives on the early history of these compendia and their subsequent transmission into later post-cuneiform compilations, curricula, and scholarly writings.
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Acknowledgements --
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Contents --
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Introduction: ‘Infrastructural Compendia’ and the Licensing of Empiricism in Mesopotamian Technical Literature --
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A. The Infrastructural Compendium --
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Encyclopaedias and Commentaries --
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Compendia and Procedures in the Mesopotamian Astral Sciences --
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Listenwissenschaft and the Encyclopedic Hermeneutics of Knowledge in Talmud and Midrash --
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B. Licensing Empiricism: Replication and Authority in Mesopotamian Technical Literature --
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‘Tested’ Remedies in Mesopotamian Medical Texts: A Label for Efficacy Based on Empirical Observation? --
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Theory and Practice in the Syriac Book of Medicines: The Empirical Basis for the Persistence of Near Eastern Medical Lore --
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The ‘Science of Properties’ and its Transmission --
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Between Demonology and Hagiology: The Slavonic Rendering of the Semitic Magical Historiola of the Child-Stealing Witch --
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C. The Two Paradigms: Towards a New Textual Criticism for Mesopotamian Technical Compendia --
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The Babylonians and the Rational: Reasoning in Cuneiform Scribal Scholarship --
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Phenomena in Writing: Creating and Interpreting Variants of the Diagnostic Series Sa-gig --
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Depersonalized Case Histories in the Babylonian Therapeutic Compendia --
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Source index --
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Subject index --
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Word index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 978-1-5015-1076-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781501502507
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501502507
