Melothesia in Babylonia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Melothesia in Babylonia write by Markham Judah Geller. This book was released on 2014-11-10. Melothesia in Babylonia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This monograph begins with a puzzle: a Babylonian text from late 5th century BCE Uruk associating various diseases with bodily organs, which has evaded interpretation. The correct answer may reside in Babylonian astrology, since the development of the zodiac in the late 5th century BCE offered innovative approaches to the healing arts. The zodiac—a means of predicting the movements of heavenly bodies—transformed older divination (such as hemerologies listing lucky and unlucky days) and introduced more favorable magical techniques and medical prescriptions, which are comparable to those found in Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos and non-Hippocratic Greek medicine. Babylonian melothesia (i.e., the science of charting how zodiacal signs affect the human body) offers the most likely solution explaining the Uruk tablet.
Look to the Stars
Look to the Stars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Look to the Stars write by Margaret J. Geller. This book was released on 2010. Look to the Stars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Ancient Babylonian Medicine
Ancient Babylonian Medicine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancient Babylonian Medicine write by Markham J. Geller. This book was released on 2015-07-21. Ancient Babylonian Medicine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Utilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets, Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice examines the way medicine was practiced by various Babylonian professionals of the 2nd and 1st millennium B.C. Represents the first overview of Babylonian medicine utilizing cuneiform sources, including archives of court letters, medical recipes, and commentaries written by ancient scholars Attempts to reconcile the ways in which medicine and magic were related Assigns authorship to various types of medical literature that were previously considered anonymous Rejects the approach of other scholars that have attempted to apply modern diagnostic methods to ancient illnesses
Hellenistic Astronomy
Hellenistic Astronomy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hellenistic Astronomy write by Alan C. Bowen. This book was released on 2020-02-17. Hellenistic Astronomy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Hellenistic Astronomy: The Science in Its Contexts, renowned scholars address questions about what the ancient science of the heavens was and the numerous contexts in which it was pursued.
Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues
Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues write by Ulrike Steinert. This book was released on 2018-06-11. Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The reconstruction of ancient Mesopotamian medical, ritual and omen compendia and their complex history is still characterised by many difficulties, debates and gaps due to fragmentary or unpublished evidence. This book offers the first complete edition of the Assur Medical Catalogue, an 8th or 7th century BCE list of therapeutic texts, which forms a core witness for the serialisation of medical compendia in the 1st millennium BCE. The volume presents detailed analyses of this and several other related catalogues of omen series and rituals, constituting the corpora of divination and healing disciplines. The contributions discuss links between catalogues and textual sources, providing new insights into the development of compendia between serialization, standardization and diversity of local traditions. Though its a novel corpus-based approach, this volume revolutionizes the current understanding of Mesopotamian medical texts and the healing disciplines of "conjurer" and "physician". The research presented here allows one to identify core text corpora for these disciplines, as well as areas of exchange and borrowings between them.
