{"id":904,"date":"2015-12-02T10:37:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T10:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/?p=904"},"modified":"2015-12-03T15:28:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T15:28:24","slug":"available-now-in-the-wake-of-the-compendia-ed-by-j-cale-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/2015\/12\/02\/available-now-in-the-wake-of-the-compendia-ed-by-j-cale-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Available now: In the Wake of the Compendia – Ed. by J.Cale Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Wake of the Compendia: Infrastructural Contexts and the Licensing of Empiricism in Ancient and Medieval Mesopotamia (Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures)<\/span><\/h3>\n
Ed: Johnson, J. Cale<\/h5>\n
Contributors: Badalanova Geller, Florentina; Bhayro, Siam; Geller, Markham J.; Lehmhaus, Lennart; Ossendrijver, Mathieu; Raggetti, Lucia; Rochberg, Francesca; Steinert, Ulrike; Wee, John Z.<\/h5>\n
Publisher: DeGruyter, Berlin
\nhttps:\/\/www.degruyter.com\/viewbooktoc\/product\/456368<\/a><\/h5>\n

In the Wake of the Compendia presents papers that examine the history of technical compendia as they moved between institutions and societies in ancient and medieval Mesopotamia.<\/p>\n

This volume offers new perspectives on the development and transmission of technical compilations, looking especially at the relationship between empirical knowledge and textual transmission in early scientific thinking. The eleven contributions to the volume derive from a panel held at the American Oriental Society in 2013 and cover more than three millennia of historical development, ranging from Babylonian medicine and astronomy to the persistence of Mesopotamian lore in Syriac and Arabic meditations on the properties of animals. The volume also includes major contributions on the history of Mesopotamian \u201crationality,\u201d epistemic labels for tested and tried remedies, and the development of depersonalized case histories in Babylonian therapeutic compendia. Together, these studies offer an overview of several important moments in the development of non-Western scientific thinking and a significant contribution to our understanding of how traditions of technical knowledge were produced and transmitted in the ancient world.<\/p>\n

Introduction (pp. 1-28) \u2014 Johnson, J. Cale
\nEncyclopaedias and Commentaries (pp. 31-46) \u2014 Geller, M. J.
\nCompendia and Procedures in the Mesopotamian Astral Sciences (pp. 47-58) \u2014 Ossendrijver, Mathieu
\nListenwissenschaft and the Encyclopedic Hermeneutics of Knowledge in Talmud and Midrash (pp. 59-100) \u2014 Lehmhaus, Lennart
\n\u2018Tested\u2019 Remedies in Mesopotamian Medical Texts (pp. 103-146) \u2014 Steinert, Ulrike
\nTheory and Practice in the Syriac Book of Medicines (pp. 147-158) \u2014 Bhayro, Siam
\nThe \u2018Science of Properties\u2019 and its Transmission (pp. 159-176) \u2014 Raggetti, Lucia
\nBetween Demonology and Hagiology (pp. 177-206) \u2014 Badalanova Geller, Florentina
\nThe Babylonians and the Rational (pp. 209-246) \u2014 Rochberg, Francesca
\nPhenomena in Writing (pp. 247-288) \u2014 Wee, John Z.
\nDepersonalized Case Histories in the Babylonian Therapeutic Compendia (pp. 289-316) \u2014 Johnson, J. Cale<\/p>\n

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In the Wake of the Compendia: Infrastructural Contexts and the Licensing of Empiricism in Ancient and Medieval Mesopotamia (Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures) Ed: Johnson, J. Cale Contributors: Badalanova Geller, Florentina; Bhayro, Siam; Geller, Markham J.; Lehmhaus, Lennart; Ossendrijver, Mathieu; Raggetti, Lucia; Rochberg, Francesca; Steinert, Ulrike; Wee, John Z. Publisher: DeGruyter, Berlin https:\/\/www.degruyter.com\/viewbooktoc\/product\/456368 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":923,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}