Freie Universität Berlin

The panel “Medicine in Bible and Talmud” at the 2016 EABS Annual Meeting will take place on Tuesday, 19 July. It aims to offer a comparative perspective by keeping an eye on the embeddedness of medical discourses on illness and disease in their surrounding cultures. Such a perspective will allow for assessing Talmudic medical ideas of disease within a broader history of medicine and to determine their particular Jewishness. While addressing the interaction between various medical discourses the panel relates to questions of the transcultural history of science(s) and knowledge in (Late) Antiquity.

9:00 am – 12.30 pm

Jewish Concepts of Health, Illness and the Human Body

Belinda E. Samari (University College London): Conceptualizations of the Human: The First Domino in Medicine?

Jason Mokhtarian (Indiana University): Charms against Diseases and Bodily Injury in the Aramaic Bowl Spells from Sasanian Mesopotamia.

Regis Nessim Sachs (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes): On Fevers The Third Discourse On Consumption by Isaac Israeli (850-c.932).

Talmudic Approaches to Therapy

Monika Amsler (Universität Zürich): The Whole of the Sugya is More than the Sum of its Parts: Git 67b-70b and its Diverse Medical Backgrounds.

Tanja Hidde (Freie Universität Berlin): “One who swallows a hornet will certainly not live” – the role of insects, worms and crawlers in Talmudic medical discourse.

Sara Ronis (St. Mary’s University, Texas): “Place it Under the Stars Overnight”: Exposing Rabbinic Attitudes toward Water.  

3:00 – 6:15 pm

Isabel Cranz (University of Pennsylvania): Ben Sirach,Chronicles and the Legitimacy of the Physician.

Tirzah Meacham (University of Toronto): The Expert Physician and Embryotomy in Rabbinic Literature.

Markham J. Geller (Freie Universität, Berlin/University College London): Abaye as Medical

Expert (‘mn).

Lennart Lehmhaus (Freie Universität, Berlin): Rabbis and/as Doctors? Expert Knowledge,Medical Practitioners and the Division of Healing Professions in Talmudic Tradition

For the conference’s full programme click here.

The conference takes place from 4-7 July 2016 at the University of Leeds. There will be also a panel for “Food and Health in Early Byzantine and Rabbinic Sources on July, 5 from 11.15-12.45. Works about regimen – proper nutrition, care of the body, and physical exercise – form a distinct genre in the corpus of Greek medical writings from as early as the 5th century BCE. The tradition is appropriated and re-organised in the early Byzantine medical encyclopaedias and spread throughout the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Research suggests that most of the Mediterranean Jews espoused and adapted Graeco-Roman socio-cultural values and practices. This panel aims to examine the transfer, appropriation, and/or transformation of Greek medical theories or practices by comparing early Byzantine and rabbinic writings.

Panel Participants are:

Caroline Musgrove (University of Cambridge) – “Telling Women What to Eat: Instruction and Agency in Oribasius’ Medical Collections”

Christine F. Salazar (Humboldt-Universität, Berlin) – “Paul of Aegina on the Properties of Fruit and Vegetables: Tradition and Creativity”

Lennart Lehmhaus, (FU Berlin, SFB 980) – “The Dynamics of Diet and Regimen: Talmudic Appropriation and Domestication of a Genre?

For the conference’s full programme click here.

The editors of the Jounal des Médecines Cunéiformes and BabMed project advisors Annie Attia and Gilles Buisson have made the earliest issues of JMC available online to be consulted via the internet.

The web site is: <https://medecinescuneiformes.fr/>.

Agnes Kloocke

Vom 20. bis 29. Juni ist als Fellow des SFB 980 “Episteme in Bewegung” Frau Dr. Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim aus London Gastforscherin am Teilprojekt A03(Geller/van der Eijk: Talmudische und Byzantinische Medizin). Sie wird in diversen Formaten (Workshops/ Vortrag) über ihre Forschung zum ersten hebräischen Medizinwerk (Sefer Assaf) und demTransfer medizinischen Wissens zwischen Ost und West sprechen.

Dienstag, den 21.06.2016 (15-17:30) findet der Workshop zum Thema

“The Hebrew Book of Asaf on Humours and Winds”

in der Bibliothek im TOPOI-Haus,
Dahlem, Hittorfstr. 18 (EG, rechts) statt.

Donnerstag, den 23.06.2016 (16:30-18:00; TOPOI-Bibliothek) werden
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim und Lennart Lehmhaus eine Sitzung mit Lektüre und
Diskussion zum Thema “Bloodletting between the Talmudim and the Hebrew Book of Asaf” abhalten.

Freitag, den 24.06.2016 (10-12 ct) hält Dr. Yoeli-Tlalim einen Vortrag
(mit anschließender Diskussion)über “The Silk-Roads as a
model for exploring Eurasian transmissions of medical knowledge”
(SFB-Villa, Schwendenerstr. 8, 14195 Berlin, Großer Seminarraum im EG.

im Rahmen der Seminar-Reihe “Visitors to Heaven, Visitors from Heaven – Judeo-Christian Encounters and the Last Lingua Sacra of Europe” wird Markham J. Geller, Principal Investigator von BabMed – Babylonian Medicine, einen Vortrag halten mit dem Titel “Wakers not Watchers”. Das Seminar ist Teil des “German-Israel Fund (GIF) Projects.

Vortragszeit: Mittwoch, 15.06.2016, 18 Uhr ct. bis 20 Uhr

Vortragsort: Bibliothek des Topoi-Hauses, Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Dr. Sara Fani, University of Copenhagen

Arabic Medieval Manuals between Technical and Literary Approach

Thursday, 16 June 2016
Room 2.2063, Fabeckstraße 23-25, 14195 Berlin
6 p.m. c.t.

Among the sources for the codicological studies, the textual sources related to the craft of the book assume a particular importance. Since the very first centuries of Islam, in fact, Muslim writers have included in their works chapters or sections related to the material aspect of the book and to the arts functional to its production. In particular the works presented in this contribution are related to the art of bookbinding (XI-XVII cent.) and to the production of inks (IX-XIII cent.), covering a wide area of the Islamic world.

The lecture will mainly focus on the Arabic manuals on the production of inks and will exemplify the methodology of study and the approach described above, while, during the workshop, the Arabic sources on bookbinding will be presented and followed in their procedural descriptions for the production of an Islamic binding model.

Arabic Bookbinding Workshop

Friday, 17 June 2016
JK 30/209, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
10 a.m.

The particular consideration devoted to books in the Muslim world, is something proverbial and found its main explanation in the assumption according to which the Word of God, after a first phase of oral transmission, required to be fixed in a written form; the written medium soon took the shape of the codex, first for the manuscript copies of the Qurʼān, and then for all the sciences and subjects of knowledge.

In the last decades, the study of the physical aspects of the book and of their historical stratification, that is the science of codicology, has acquired the status of autonomous science also in Arab-Islamic context and, as in other cultural environments, reveals to be extremely interesting not only for the contribution to other disciplines related to textual transmission, but also as a new perspective of research in the history of science and technology and for the definition of appropriate conservative interventions on original material.

Please write to lucia.raggetti@fu-berlin.de in order to register for the workshop

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On May 27, 2016 a SFB 980-Episteme in Bewegung – workshop on Early Byzantine Medicine is to be held at the Humboldt University, Unter den Linden 6, Room 2070 A.

Speakers are:
Philip van der Eijk, Eric Gowling, Irene Calà, Matteo Martelli, Gabrielle Lherminier and Christine Salazar.
Please note the conference flyer for more detailed information.

Part of al Jazeera’s series, Science in the Golden Age, at

https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/science-in-a-golden-age/

Several programs of (about 25′) videos can be found there, the latest being, “Al-Razi, Ibn Sina and the Canon of Medicine.” (We explore the links between medical research in the Golden Age of Science and the modern practise of medicine today.)

As posted on Agade list, May 4, 2016

BabMed project advisor Henry Stadhouders, Universiteit Utrecht, will give a talk on ‘Dream Rituals’ at the Birmingham Assyriology 2nd Annual Symposium in May 2016:

Reimaging Babylon: Birmingham Assyriology 2nd Annual Symposium
Friday 13th May University of Birminham, Arts Lecture Room 1

Please register by emailing <assyriology@contacts.bham.ac.uk>, and provide your name and institution.

10-10:30 – Registration
10:30 – Keynote – Dr. Martin Worthington
11:00 – Panel 1: Ritual

• Dr. Henry Stadhouders – Dream Rituals
• Kerrie Myers – An Analysis of the Babylonian Mouth-Washing (Mīs Pî) Ritual as a Rite of Transition (21 words)

12:20 – Panel 2: Understanding Women

• Nicola Apps – The Development of the Depiction of Women on Cylinder Seals
• Orieji Bright – Pu-abi; Queen, Princess or High Priestess

13:20 – Lunch

14:20 – Panel 3: Language

• Guy Kirkham-Smith – “Oh Enki, what big ears you have!” “But Athene, what big eyes you have!”: Sources of Wisdom from Mesopotamia to Greece
• Lynette Talbot – Tracing textual history: new approaches to medical texts
• Narmin Ismayilova – Applying the Sumerian-Akkadian model to Farsi-Azeri writing system

16:10 – Panel 4: Assyrian Politics

• Ben Dewar – Accounts of Rebellion in the Inscriptions of Sennacherib and his Disassociation from Sargon II
• Ellie Bennett – Tribes and Camels: Magee’s Interpretation of Assyrian Intervention in Arabia

17:10 – Closing Statements

17:20 – Reception

First posted on Agade Mailing List, April 18, 2016

At this year’s annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) in Minneapolis, Matteo Martelli and Lennart Lehmhaus convene a panel on pre-modern medicine and alchemy that combines comparative case studies and theoretical discussions. Both scholars are affiliated with the Berlin research project at the SFB 980 on Talmudic and Byzantine Medicine run by Philip J. van der Eijk and BabMed Principal Investigator Markham J. Geller.

American Association for the History of Medicine, 89th Annual Meeting, April 28-May 1, 2016, Minneapolis, MN

Session B1: Describing, Classifying, and Transforming Natural Substances in Ancient Science

29 April 2016, 1:30-3:30 pm; Location: Minneapolis Marriott Center City Hotel, 30 South 7th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55402; Ballroom 3

1. Sean Coughlin, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany: Athenaeus of Attalia, the Stoics, and Materia Medica
2. Matteo Martelli, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany: Colouring and Transforming Natural Substances between Alchemy and Medicine (1st-4th c. AD)
3. Lennart Lehmhaus, Free University, Berlin, Germany: Rabbinic Recipes – Therapeutical Application of Natural Substances in Talmudic Traditions
4. Lucia Raggetti, Free University, Berlin, Germany: THE KITĀB AL-ḪAWĀṢṢ OF MUḤAMMAD IBN ZAKARIYA AL-RĀZĪ
5. Alain Touwaide, Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions, Washington, D.C.: Galen’s Pharmacotherapy: Collectionism, Public Health, and Personal Interest B2 Bodily Fluids in Pre-Modern Med

For the conference’s full programme click here.

Agnes Kloocke