Sourcebook for Ancient Mesopotamian Medicine: Translation

by JoAnn Scurlock

Publisher:

SBL

, 2014

Overview

In this collection JoAnn Scurlock assembles and translates medical texts that provided instructions for ancient doctors and pharmacists. Scurlock unpacks the difficult, technical vocabulary that describes signs and symptoms, as well as procedures and plants used in treatments. This fascinating material illuminates the development of medicine in the ancient Near East, yet these tablets were essentially inaccessible to anyone without an expertise in cuneiform. Scurlock’s work fills this gap by providing a key resource for teaching and research.

Product Details

• Title: Sourcebook for Ancient Mesopotamian Medicine: Translation
• Author: JoAnn Scurlock
• Series: Writings from the Ancient World
• Volume: 36
• Publisher: SBL
• Print Publication Date: 2014
• Logos Release Date: 2018
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian › Sources
• ISBNs: 9781589839694, 9781589839717, 9781589839700, 1589839692, 1589839714, 1589839706
• Resource ID: LLS:SRCBKNCNTMSMDCNTRA
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:07:32Z

About JoAnn Scurlock

JoAnn Scurlock is the author of Magico▬Medical Means of Treating Ghost▬Induced Illnesses in Ancient Mesopotamia (Brill), the co▬author of Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian Medicine: Ancient Sources, Translations, and Modern Medical Analyses (University of Illinois Press), and the co▬editor of Creation and Chaos: A Reconsideration of Hermann Gunkel’s Chaoskampf Hypothesis (Eisenbrauns).