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The Healing Goddess Gula
Author | : Barbara Böck |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2013-10-10 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9789004261464 |
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Providing a comprehensive examination of the traits and areas of authority Ancient Babylonians attributed to their healing goddess, this book draws on a wide range of Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform sources, including god lists, literary compositions, lexical lists, prognostic texts, incantations, and prescriptions. Analysing the use of selected metaphors associated with the goddess, a new perspective is offered on the explanation for disease as well as the motivation for particular treatments. Special chapters deal with the cuneiform handbook on prognosis and diagnosis of diseases, medical incantations appealing to the healing goddess, and the medicinal plants attributed to her. For the first time a body of evidence for the use of simple drugs is brought together, elaborating on specific plant profiles. The result is a volume that challenges many long-held assumptions concerning the specialized cuneiform medical literature and takes a fresh look on the nature of Ancient Babylonian healing.
The Healing Goddess Gula
Author | : Barbara Bock |
Publsiher | : Brill Academic Pub |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004261451 |
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Providing a comprehensive study of the ancient Babylonian healing goddess, this book employs a range of Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform sources. The resulting volume challenges many long-held assumptions concerning the specialised medical literature and addresses the nature of healing in ancient Mesopotamia.
The Pantheon of Uruk During the Neo Babylonian Period
Author | : Paul-Alain Beaulieu |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2021-11-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004496804 |
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This book is about the pantheon of the Babylonian city of Uruk, between the 9th and 5th centuries BC. It is a careful analysis of the archive of the Eanna temple in Uruk, the sanctuary of the goddess Ishtar, containing well over 8,000 cuneiform tablets in the Akkadian language. The tablets date in their majority to the Neo-Babylonian and early Achaemenid period. Paul-Alain Beaulieu sheds light on the hierarchy of the local pantheon, providing a wealth of data concerning the cult of each deity, such as identity and theology, ornaments and clothing of the divine image, offerings ceremonies, temples, and cultic personnel. An important contribution to our knowledge of the functioning of religion in Neo-Babylonian society.
The Image of Mesopotamian Divine Healers
Author | : Irene Sibbing-Plantholt |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2022-04-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004512412 |
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This book presents the first in-depth analysis of Mesopotamian healing goddesses and their relationship to asûs, “healers”. Through this, Sibbing-Plantholt provides unprecedented insight into the diverse Mesopotamian medical marketplace and how professional healers operating within it legitimized themselves.
A Handbook of Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Near East
Author | : Douglas R. Frayne,Johanna H. Stuckey |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 443 |
Release | : 2021-02-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781646021291 |
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From the tragic young Adonis to Zašhapuna, first among goddesses, this handbook provides the most complete information available on deities from the cultures and religions of the ancient Near East, including Anatolia, Syria, Israel, Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, and Elam. The result of nearly fifteen years of research, this handbook is more expansive and covers a wider range of sources and civilizations than any previous reference works on the topic. Arranged alphabetically, the entries range from multiple pages of information to a single line—sometimes all that we know about a given deity. Where possible, each record discusses the deity’s symbolism and imagery, connecting it to the myths, rituals, and festivals described in ancient sources. Many of the entries are accompanied by illustrations that aid in understanding the iconography, and they all include references to texts in which the god or goddess is mentioned. Appropriate for both trained scholars and nonacademic readers, this book collects centuries of Near Eastern mythology into one volume. It will be an especially valuable resource for anyone interested in Assyriology, ancient religion, and the ancient Near East.
The Babylonian World
Author | : Gwendolyn Leick |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 601 |
Release | : 2009-06-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781134261284 |
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Exploring all key aspects of the development of this ancient culture, The Babylonian World presents an extensive, up-to-date and lavishly illustrated history of the ancient state Babylonia and its 'holy city', Babylon.
Darwin s Heart
Author | : Morris Weiss Jr MD FACP FACC |
Publsiher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2023-04-23 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9798823004985 |
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A middle-aged man dying of heart failure consents to an experimental artificial heart. The post-op course was stormy with no improvement. His wish was to die at home, so he was discharged. At the funeral, his wife presented the doctors with a lawsuit, saying “You buried my husband without his heart.” The doctors found his heart, put it back in his chest, and the lawsuit vanished. This case had a profound effect on the author’s thinking and conduct as a physician cardiologist. Dr. Weiss realized doctors focused on the heart as a pump, rather than the symbolic heart and what it represents. This book surveys how a host of ancient cultures, religions, and civilizations envisioned the homo sapiens heart before the advent of modern medicine, and how that understanding will preserve our species.
Essential Readings in Medicine and Religion
Author | : Gary B. Ferngren,Ekaterina N. Lomperis |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2017-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781421422909 |
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