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In the Wake of the Compendia

Infrastructural Contexts and the Licensing of Empiricism in Ancient and Medieval Mesopotamia

dc.contributor.editorCale Johnson, J.
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-08T06:41:40Z
dc.date.available2025-03-08T06:41:40Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.date.submitted2019-10-02 23:55
dc.date.submitted2020-01-07 16:47:06
dc.date.submitted2020-04-01T10:04:30Z
dc.identifier1005456
dc.identifierOCN: 1135853750
dc.identifierhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24655
dc.identifier.urihttps://doab-dev.siscern.org/handle/20.500.12854/185184
dc.description.abstractIn 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subject.otherearly scientific thought
dc.subject.othercompilation and redaction in the ancient world
dc.subject.otherinfrastructural compendia
dc.subject.otherempiricism
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHG Middle Eastern history
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRR Other religions and spiritual beliefs::QRRT Indigenous, ethnic and folk religions and spiritual beliefs::QRRT1 Indigenous religions, spiritual beliefs and mythologies of the Americas
dc.titleIn the Wake of the Compendia
dc.title.alternativeInfrastructural Contexts and the Licensing of Empiricism in Ancient and Medieval Mesopotamia
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1515/9781501502507
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oapen.relation.hasChapterChapter Encyclopaedias and Commentaries
oapen.relation.hasChapterChapter Introduction
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oapen.collectionEuropean Research Council (ERC)
oapen.pages336
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  • Chapter Depersonalized Case Histories in the Babylonian Therapeutic Compendia
    Cale Johnson, J. (2015)
    Standard histories of medicine identify Hippocratic texts such as Epidemics as the earliest medical case histories in human history. In contrast to the Hippocratic case histories, it is often stated that Babylonian medicine ...
  • Chapter ‘Tested’ Remedies in Mesopotamian Medical Texts
    Steinert, Ulrike; Cale Johnson, J. (2015)
    This contribution investigates the phraseology of descriptions of efficacy (efficacy phrases) in Mesopotamian medical texts, concentrating on the qualification latku ‘tested, tried, proven’, which implies that knowledge ...
  • Chapter Encyclopaedias and Commentaries
    Markham, J. Geller; Johnson, J. Cale (2015)
    This paper looks at how empirical knowledge was assembled and interpreted in Babylonian academies and investigates two Neo-Assyrian plant lists: KADP 2 and KADP 4. These two lists are not simple collections of scholastic ...

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