Compendia and Procedures in the Mesopotamian Astral Sciences

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements vii
3. Contents ix
4. Introduction 1
5. A. The Infrastructural Compendium
6. Encyclopaedias and Commentaries 31
7. Compendia and Procedures in the Mesopotamian Astral Sciences 47
8. Listenwissenschaft and the Encyclopedic Hermeneutics of Knowledge in Talmud and Midrash 59
9. B. Licensing Empiricism: Replication and Authority in Mesopotamian Technical Literature
10. ‘Tested’ Remedies in Mesopotamian Medical Texts 103
11. Theory and Practice in the Syriac Book of Medicines 147
12. The ‘Science of Properties’ and its Transmission 159
13. Between Demonology and Hagiology 177
14. C. The Two Paradigms: Towards a New Textual Criticism for Mesopotamian Technical Compendia
15. The Babylonians and the Rational 209
16. Phenomena in Writing 247
17. Depersonalized Case Histories in the Babylonian Therapeutic Compendia 289
18. Source index 317
19. Subject index 321
20. Word index 325