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Title In the wake of the compendia : infrastructural contexts and the licensing of empiricism in ancient and medieval Mesopotamia / edited by J. Cale Johnson
Published Boston : De Gruyter, 2015

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Series Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures, 2194-976X ; Volume 3
Science, technology, and medicine in ancient cultures ; Volume 3.
Contents 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
Summary "In 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"--Provided by publisher
Analysis compilation and redaction in the ancient world
early scientific thought
empiricism
infrastructural compendia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Science -- Iraq -- History -- To 1500
Technology -- Iraq -- History -- To 1500
Scientific literature -- Iraq -- History and criticism
Technical literature -- Iraq -- History and criticism
Reference books -- Iraq -- History -- To 1500
Empiricism in literature.
Semitic literature -- History and criticism
Multilingualism and literature -- Iraq -- History -- To 1500
Learning and scholarship -- Iraq -- History -- To 1500
HISTORY / Middle East / General.
Empiricism in literature
Intellectual life
Learning and scholarship
Multilingualism and literature
Reference books
Science
Scientific literature
Semitic literature
Technical literature
Technology
SUBJECT Iraq -- Intellectual life
Subject Iraq
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Johnson, Justin Cale, 1971-
LC no. 2015037267
ISBN 9781501502507
1501502506
9781501502521
1501502522