Woraus besteht die Seele, wie steuert sie den menschlichen Körper und wo ist ihr Sitz im Körper? Was geschieht, wenn ein Mensch krank wird, und was trägt zu seiner Heilung bei? Die Ausstellung „Die Seele ist ein Oktopus. Antike Vorstellungen vom belebten Körper“ stellt zentrale antike Auffassungen von physischen und seelischen Vorgängen vor, die zwischen […]
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36. Treffen des Interdisziplinären Arbeitskreises “Alte Medizin”
Das Treffen des Interdisziplinären Arbeitskreises „Alte Medizin“, ausgerichtet von Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening, findet am 2. und 3. Juli 2016 im Institut für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin der Universität Mainz, Am Pulverturm 13, Untergeschoss (Hörsaal U1125) statt. Das Oberthema der Tagung lautet: „Medizin und Tod in der Alten Welt“. Für ein Programm der […]
TOPOI conference in May 2016: Scholars, Priests and Temples – Babylonian and Egyptian Science in Context
Scholars, Priests and Temples – Babylonian and Egyptian Science in Context 12-14 May 2016 TOPOI – Humboldt University Berlin, Hannoversche Strasse 6, Room 1.03 Late Babylonian, Late Egyptian and Greco-Roman Egyptian scholarship and its institutional and social contexts: In the last few decades our understanding of scholarship, priesthood and temple institutions during the late periods […]
W.G. Lambert: Ancient Mesopotamian Religion and Mythology Selected Essays
W.G. Lambert: Ancient Mesopotamian Religion and Mythology Selected Essays Ed. by A.R. George and T.M. Oshima [Mesopotamische Religion und Mythologie der Antike. Ausgewählte Aufsätze.] 2016. XVI, 279 pages. Cloth. Orientalische Religionen in der Antike 15 ISBN 978-3-16-153674-8 Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen Published in English. The late W.G. Lambert (1926–2011) was one of the foremost Assyriologists […]
CALL FOR PAPERS: “Medicine in Bible and Talmud” EABS research unit, Leuven (Belgium), 17-20 July 2016
Papers are invited on the theme of the “Concepts of Disease in traditions of (Late) Antiquity”, extending from biblical and apocryphal texts, into later Jewish, rabbinic and early Christian contexts. We are especially interested in presentations on rabbinic-talmudic traditions against the foil of their literary and socio-cultural background(s). Discussions of earlier discourses in the Bible […]
“Healing Magic and Evil Demons” now available!
The new book “Healing Magic and Evil Demons” by Markham J. Geller, Principal Investigator of BabMed-Babylonian Medicine, and Luděk Vacín is now available. It brings together ancient manuscripts of the large compendium of Mesopotamian exorcistic incantations known as Udug.hul (Utukkū Lemnūtu), directed against evil demons, ghosts, gods, and other demonic malefactors within the Mesopotamian view […]
Sixth Dahlem Seminar for the History of Ancient Sciences: Genres and Beyond
Sixth Dahlem Seminar for the History of Ancient Sciences: Genres and Beyond The “Dahlem Seminar for the History of Ancient Sciences” is being convened by M. J. Geller (History of Knowledge and BabMed Principal Investigator) and K. Geus (Ancient Geography) within TOPOI excellence cluster at Freie Universität Berlin. “Genres and Beyond” is the thematic framework for […]
BabMed Post Doc Ulrike Steinert: co-convenor at Oxford
BabMed Post Doc Ulrike Steinert has been awarded a Wellcome Medical Humanities Small Grant and is currently involved in research at Oxford University during January to March 2016. She is hosted by the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA) and affiliated with Wolfson College as a visiting scholar. During her stay, she is working […]
A new issue of Journal des Médecines Cunéiformes available
Annie Attia, also project advisor of BabMed, announced the publication of the 26th issue of Journal des Médecines Cunéiformes. The first contribution is by András Bácskay (Budapest) deals with magico-medical prescriptions against fever and presents an edition of the new or late babylonian tablet BM 42272. The tablet contains twenty prescriptions and is one of […]
RTI images now available at CDLI
The implementation of a CDLI search-renderer feed of an online viewer now accommodates the RTI images of cuneiform artifacts that Oxford co-PI Jacob Dahl and research associate Klaus Wagensonner (now at the Free University of Berlin) created, working in the collections of the Ashmolean Museum and the Louvre, and in smaller numbers in those of […]
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