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{"title":"Towards a New Perspective on Babylonian Medicine","authors":"J. C. Johnson","doi":"10.1515/9781501504914-004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501504914-004","url":null,"abstract":"Traditional accounts of Babylonian medicine see the two disciplines involved in healing in ancient Mesopotamia, viz. āšipūtu “exorcism or incantation-and-ritual-driven healing” and asûtu “medicine”, as complementary disciplines, collaborating in the treatment of individual patients. Ritter’s 1965 paper on the two disciplines, for example, sought to differentiate them, while at the same time arguing that they often collaborated in the treatment of individual patients. The new edition of AMC in this volume already overturns one of Ritter’s primary working hypotheses, namely that Babylonian medicine (asûtu) lacked the type of carefully organized, discipline-defining compendium known for āšipūtu, where The Diagnostic Handbook clearly plays this role. Now that The Nineveh Medical Compendium – the medical corpus that AMC defines – can be seen as functionally equivalent, in certain ways, to The Diagnostic Handbook, this paper seeks to overturn two other common descriptions of Babylonian medicine that derive, however indirectly, from the idea that the medical corpus is amorphous or open-ended: (i) the belief that asûtu and āšipūtu were complementary and cooperative disciplines and (ii) the supposedly non-theoretical character of Babylonian medicine (asûtu). This paper argues that these two disciplines were, for the most part, in competition for the attention of the crown as well as for social standing more generally. Each of these two disciplines (asûtu and āšipūtu) maintained its own disciplinary identity and compendia and, perhaps more importantly for Mesopotamian intellectual history, its own models of disease etiology and causation. These different models of etiology and causation in asûtu and āšipūtu only become apparent, however, when we adopt a properly “architectonic” approach to reconstructing the technical compendia that were used by each of these two disciplines. And, as a consequence, the position of any given line or fragment within a particular, discipline-specific compendium is one of its most important, even definitive, properties. This type of “architectonic approach” is unusually powerful, when we look at the diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, because there we find a decisive split. The etiologies of gastrointestinal disease within exorcism-driven healing (āšipūtu) rely, almost exclusively, on postulating ghosts or demons as causal agents, while Babylonian medicine (asûtu) turned to increasingly “secular” etiologies based on analogies between the unseen processes of the gastrointestinal tract and visible processes in the natural or social world. These distinctively secular etiologies in the medical corpus are registered, above all, in medical incantations that parody the established incantations of the competing discipline of āšipūtu.1","PeriodicalId":203924,"journal":{"name":"Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115187677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"1. The Assur Medical Catalogue (AMC)","authors":"U. Steinert","doi":"10.1515/9781501504914-009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501504914-009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":203924,"journal":{"name":"Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues","volume":"4 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120918313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Indices","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781501504914-015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501504914-015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":203924,"journal":{"name":"Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124178726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Catalogues of Enūma Anu Enlil","authors":"F. Rochberg","doi":"10.1515/9781501504914-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501504914-006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":203924,"journal":{"name":"Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114283048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Catalogues, Texts and Specialists","authors":"U. Steinert","doi":"10.1515/9781501504914-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501504914-008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":203924,"journal":{"name":"Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131469623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Frontmatter","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781501504914-fm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501504914-fm","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":203924,"journal":{"name":"Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126139619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Esagil-kīn-apli’s Catalogue of Sakikkû and Alamdimmû","authors":"E. Schmidtchen","doi":"10.1515/9781501504914-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501504914-007","url":null,"abstract":"Without doubt, Esagil-kīn-apli’s text catalogue of the prognostic-diagnostic omen series Sakikkû and the physiognomic-morphoscopic omen series Alamdimmû, known from two 1st millennium manuscripts, is of considerable importance and merits to be treated here together with the catalogues KAR 44 (Exorcist’s Manual) and AMC. (a) It serves as an important point of comparison for the terminology and structure of the other catalogues. Since a number of otherwise unattested expressions in the Sakikkû catalogue pose some difficulties, a discussion of the major terms will be provided later on in this article. (b) Combining both witnesses the catalogue is, with the exception of some line beginnings and a few lines at the end of the tablet, nearly completely preserved and offers crucial information for the reconstruction of both series. (c) Another remarkable feature is the insertion of an editorial note or, as John Wee called it, a manifesto,1 between the catalogues of Sakikkû (SA.GIG) and Alamdimmû, in the middle of the text. This editorial note is not only noteworthy because it mentions the series’ compiler – which is unusual in itself – but also by stating the reasons and justification for the edition, which has led to a discussion about canonisation within Mesopotamian technical texts pertaining to different scholarly disciplines.","PeriodicalId":203924,"journal":{"name":"Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133606443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"3 The Edition of Esagil-kīn-apli’s Catalogue of the Series Sakikkû (SA.GIG) and Alamdimmû","authors":"E. Schmidtchen","doi":"10.1515/9781501504914-011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501504914-011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":203924,"journal":{"name":"Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128600080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Abbreviations","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781501504914-202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501504914-202","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":203924,"journal":{"name":"Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121076967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On Three Tablet Inventories","authors":"I. Finkel","doi":"10.1515/9781501504914-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501504914-002","url":null,"abstract":"Cuneiform catalogues such as those edited in the following pages of this work, which list the incipits or first lines of textual works, provide the Assyriologist with uniquely revealing information. Their content can reflect three primary categories: series, where the component parts are given of a given structure, numbered and in order; genre, where known texts to deal with a specific problem are marshalled together, or contents, that itemise tablets from a specific tablet library. Three additional sources edited here represent a different phenomenon. Each likewise contains only an incipit list, but the nature and sequence in which the material is present recommends that they should rather be classified as tablet inventories.","PeriodicalId":203924,"journal":{"name":"Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues","volume":"2015 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128049171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}