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Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Archiv Für Orientforschung written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Herman F. J. Horstmanshoff
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004136665
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Magic And Rationality In Ancient Near Eastern And Graeco-roman Medicine written by Herman F. J. Horstmanshoff and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of methods in Ancient Near Eastern and Greek and Roman medicine, based on representative text corpora. Central is the question of what is "rational," or not, in the various systems.
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Total Pages : 334 pages
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Download or read book Archiv Für Orientforschung written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fei Chen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900443092X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Study on the Synchronistic King List from Ashur written by Fei Chen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Study on the Synchronistic King List from Ashur, CHEN Fei reconstructs the texts of the list, interprets the format of the list, and analyzes some problems, especially the purpose of its compilation.
Author : Agnès Garcia-Ventura
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1646020871
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Perspectives on the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies written by Agnès Garcia-Ventura and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-03-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume collects eighteen essays exploring the history of ancient Near Eastern studies. Combining diverse approaches—synthetic and analytic, diachronic and transnational—this collection offers critical reflections on the who, why, and how of this cluster of fields. How have political contexts determined the conduct of research? How do academic agendas reflect larger social, economic, and cultural interests? How have schools of thought and intellectual traditions configured, and sometimes predetermined, the study of the ancient Near East? Contributions treating research during the Nazi and fascist periods examine the interpenetration of academic work with politics, while contributions dealing with specific national contexts disclose fresh perspectives on individual scholars as well as the conditions and institutions in which they worked. Particular attention is given to scholarship in countries such as Turkey, Portugal, Iran, China, and Spain, which have hitherto been marginal to historiographic accounts of ancient Near Eastern studies. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Selim Ferru Adali, Silvia Alaura, Isabel Almeida, Petr Charvát, Parsa Daneshmand, Eva von Dassow, Hakan Erol, Sebastian Fink, Jakob Flygare, Pietro Giammellaro, Carlos Gonçalves, Katrien de Graef, Steven W. Holloway, Ahmed Fatima Kzzo, Changyu Liu, Patrick Maxime Michel, Emanuel Pfoh, Jitka Sýkorová, Luděk Vacín, and Jordi Vidal.
Author : Eleanor Robson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198152460
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Mesopotamian Mathematics, 2100-1600 BC written by Eleanor Robson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathematics was integral to Mesopotamian scribal culture: indeed, writing was invented towards the end of the fourth millennium B.C. for the express purpose of recording numericalatical information. The main body of this book is a mathematical and philological discussion of the two hundred technical constants, or "coefficients," found in early second millennium mathematics. Their names and mathematical functions are established, leading to improved interpretations of several large mathematical topics. The origins of many coefficients--and much of the more practical mathematics--are traced to late third millennium accounting and quantity surveying practices. Finally, the coefficients are used to examine some aspects of mathematics education in early Mesopotamia.
Author : Anne Marie Kitz
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575068745
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Cursed Are You! written by Anne Marie Kitz and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about curses. It is not about curses as insults or offensive language but curses as petitions to the divine world to render judgment and execute harm on identified, hostile forces. In the ancient world, curses functioned in a way markedly different from our own, and it is into the world of the ancient Near East that we must go in order to appreciate the scope of their influence. For the ancient Near Easterners, curses had authentic meaning. Curses were part of their life and religion. They were not inherently magic or features of superstitions, nor were they mere curiosities or trifling antidotes. They were real and effective. They were employed proactively and reactively to manage life’s many vicissitudes and maintain social harmony. They were principally protective, but they were also the cause of misfortune, illness, depression, and anything else that undermined a comfortable, well-balanced life. Every member of society used them, from slave to king, from young to old, from men and women to the deities themselves. They crossed cultural lines and required little or no explanation, for curses were the source of great evil. In other words, curses were universal. Because curses were woven into the very fabric of every known ancient Near Eastern society, they emerge frequently and in a wide variety of venues. They appear on public and private display objects, on tomb stelae, tomb lintels, and sarcophagi, on ancient kudurrus and narûs. They are used in political, administrative, social, religious, and familial contexts. They are the subject of incantations. They are tools that exorcise demons and dispel disease; they ban, protect, and heal. This is the phenomenology of cursing in the ancient Near East, and this is what the present work explores.
Author : Kenneth G. Zysk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351493639
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Religious Medicine written by Kenneth G. Zysk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
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Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9781422371114
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 118, No. 3, 1974) written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth G. Zysk
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120814004
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Medicine in the Veda written by Kenneth G. Zysk and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gioele Zisa
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110757265
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Loss of Male Sexual Desire in Ancient Mesopotamia written by Gioele Zisa and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After more than fifty years since the last publication, the cuneiform texts relating to the treatment of the loss of male sexual desire and vigor in Mesopotamia are collected in this volume. The aim of the book is to present Mesopotamian medical tradition regarding the so-called nīš libbi therapies. šà-zi-ga in Sumerian, nīš libbi in Akkadian, lit. "raising of the 'heart'", is the expression used to indicate a group of texts intended to recover the male sexual desire. This medical tradition is preserved from the Middle Babylonian period to the Achaemenid one. This broad range testifies to the importance of the transmission of this material throughout Mesopotamian history. The book provides the edition of this textual corpus and analyzes it in the light of new knowledge on ancient Near Eastern medicine. Moreover, this volume aims to show how theories and methodologies of Cultural Anthropology, Ethnopsychiatry and Gender Studies are useful for understanding the Mesopotamian medical system. This edition is an important tool for understanding Mesopotamian medical knowledge for Assyriologist, however since the texts have been translated and discussed using the anthropological and gender perspectives they are accessible also to scholars of other research fields, such as History of Medicine, Sexuality and Gender.
Author : Dorothy Hale Litchfield
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512803766
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Classified List of 4800 Serials written by Dorothy Hale Litchfield and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A listing of periodicals, serials, and continuation publications subscribed to by four leading American educational institutions, arranged in thirty-one classified subjects, elaborately indexed and provided with cross-references.
Author : Charvát, Petr
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
ISBN 13 : 802463130X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Signs from Silence written by Charvát, Petr and published by Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The monograph Signs from Silence: Ur of the first Sumerians tells the story of the Sumerian city of Ur at the beginning of the third pre-Christian millennium (c. 2,900–2,700). In terms of research focusing on the emergence of one of the first statehood foci of human history—the pristine state of ancient Mesopotamia—, the author takes up evidence on a critical phase of early Mesopotamian social development. At the beginning of the third pre-Christian millennium, the men and women of Ur took up actions that decided whether the material and spiritual heritage of the preceding Late Uruk cultural-development phase (c. 3,500–3,200), when the first state, organized religion, sciences and the arts had emerged in ancient Mesopotamia, will stand up to the test of time, or whether it will vanish into thin air, as it happened in other civilizational complexes. The author has based his conclusions on the testimony of written texts, archaeology and iconography. Guided by this evidence, he portrays the ways and means by which the men and women of Ur treated the material and spiritual heritage of the Late Uruk civilization. Their activities defined the coordinates system within which the early Mesopotamian state subsequently developed through the nearly three millennia of its existence.
Author : Prince Mikasa no Miya Takahito (son of Taishō, Emperor of Japan)
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447039673
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Essays on Ancient Anatolia in the Second Millennium B.C. written by Prince Mikasa no Miya Takahito (son of Taishō, Emperor of Japan) and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 1998 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jo Ann Scurlock
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252092384
Total Pages : 916 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian Medicine written by Jo Ann Scurlock and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To date, the pathbreaking medical contributions of the early Mesopotamians have been only vaguely understood. Due to the combined problems of an extinct language, gaps in the archeological record, the complexities of pharmacy and medicine, and the dispersion of ancient tablets throughout the museums of the world, it has been nearly impossible to get a clear and comprehensive view of what medicine was really like in ancient Mesopotamia. The collaboration of medical expert Burton R. Andersen and cuneiformist JoAnn Scurlock makes it finally possible to survey this collected corpus and discern magic from experimental medicine in Ashur, Babylon, and Nineveh. Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian Medicine is the first systematic study of all the available texts, which together reveal a level of medical knowledge not matched again until the nineteenth century A.D. Over the course of a millennium, these nations were able to develop tests, prepare drugs, and encourage public sanitation. Their careful observation and recording of data resulted in a description of symptoms so precise as to enable modern identification of numerous diseases and afflictions.
Author : Hermann Hunger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135168681X
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book The Babylonian Astronomical Compendium MUL.APIN written by Hermann Hunger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MUL.APIN, written sometime before the 8th century BC, was the most widely copied astronomical text in ancient Mesopotamia: a compendium including information such as star lists, descriptions of planetary phases, mathematical schemes for the length of day and night, a discussion of the luni-solar calendar and rules for intercalation, and a short collection of celestial omens. This book contains an introductory essay, followed by a new edition of the text and a facing-page transliteration and English translation. Finally, the book contains a new and detailed commentary on the text. This is a fascinating study, and an important resource for anyone interested in the history of astronomy.
Author : Krzysztof Kinowski
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 3647500437
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Bloodshed by King Manasseh, Assyrians and Priestly Scribes written by Krzysztof Kinowski and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2024-01-22 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Manasseh of Judah is one of the most intriguing characters in the Bible. 2 Kings presents him as the wickedest of monarchs. In 2Kgs 24:3–4, he is accused of having provoked God to destroy Judah on account of the innocent blood he had shed in Jerusalem (cf. 2Kgs 21:16). In his study Krzysztof Kinowski investigates this accusation, viewing it against the biblical and ancient Near East backgrounds, and casts a new light upon Manasseh's role in the fall of Jerusalem. The mention of bloodshed in this affair appears to be the outcome of a process of scapegoating of Manasseh, ongoing in 2 Kings and reflecting both the legal and the cultic paradigms governing the biblical historiography. The link between Manasseh's bloodshed and the destruction of Judah on account of the cultic land's blood-defilement points towards a group of priestly scribes involved in the production of the 2Kgs 21 and 24 narratives. This assumption lies behind the scholarly discussion about the Priestly-like strata and priestly touches in the Books of Kings.
