In the wake of the compendia : infrastructural contexts and the licensing of empiricism in ancient and medieval Mesopotamia
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Johnson, Justin Cale, 1971-
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Boston :
De Gruyter,
2015.
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| Umfang/Format: |
1 online resource (x, 326 pages). |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Science, technology, and medicine in ancient cultures ;
vol. 3 |
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| Parallelausgabe: |
In the wake of the compendia (Print version) |
| Online Zugang: |
open access |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction: "Infrastructural compendia" and the licensing of empiricism in Mesopotamian technical literature / J. Cale Johnson
- Part A. The infrastructural compendium
- Encyclopaedias and commentaries / M.J. Geller
- Compendia and procedures in the Mesopotamian astral sciences / Mathieu Ossendrijver
- Listenwissenschaft and the encyclopedic hermeneutics of knowledge in Talmud and Midrash / Lennart Lehmhaus
- Part B. Licensing empiricism : replication and authority in Mesopotamian technical literature
- "Tested" remedies in Mesopotamian medical texts : a label for efficacy based on empirical observation? / Ulrike Steinert
- Theory and practice in the Syriac Book of Medicines : the empirical basis for the persistence of Near Eastern medical lore / Siam Bhayro
- The "science of properties" and its transmission / Lucia Raggetti
- Between demonology and hagiology : the Slavonic rendering of the Semitic Magical Historiola of the Child-Stealing Witch / Florentina Badalanova Geller
- Part C. The two paradigms : towards a new textual criticism for Mesopotamian technical compendia
- The Babylonians and the rational : reasoning in cuneiform scribal scholarship / Francesca Rochberg
- Phenomena in writing : creating and interpreting variants of the diagnostic series Sa-Gig / John Z. Wee
- Depersonalized case histories in the Babylonian therapeutic compendia / J. Cale Johnson
- Source index
- Subject index
- Author index.
