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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Archiv Für Orientforschung
Author: Magic And Rationality In Ancient Near Eastern And Graeco-roman Medicine
Author: Herman F. J. HorstmanshoffPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004136665
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
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.
Archiv Für Orientforschung
Author: Study on the Synchronistic King List from Ashur
Author: Fei ChenPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900443092X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
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.
Perspectives on the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Author: Agnès Garcia-VenturaPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 1646020871
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
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.
Mesopotamian Mathematics, 2100-1600 BC
Author: Eleanor RobsonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198152460
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
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.
Cursed Are You!
Author: Anne Marie KitzPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 1575068745
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
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.
Religious Medicine
Author: Kenneth G. ZyskPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351493639
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 118, No. 3, 1974)
Author: Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422371114
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Medicine in the Veda
Author: Kenneth G. ZyskPublisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120814004
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
