Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic

Strahil V. Panayotov, Ph.D. (2014) University of Sofia, is a postdoc in BabMed, the ERC advanced project at the Freie Universität Berlin. He has published and edited monographs and articles on various Assyriological topics, and is currently preparing with M.J. Geller a critical edition of the Mesopotamian Eye Disease Texts. The Nineveh Treatise (Die Babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen 10).Luděk Vacín, Ph.D. (2011), SOAS London, spent two years at the MPIWG, then assisted M.J. Geller in the publication of the Udug-hul incantation series at the Freie Universität Berlin. Now he works at the University of Hradec Králové, Czechia. His main interests are Sumerian literature, royal ideology, and intellectual culture. He has published articles on those topics and edited the Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Memory of Blahoslav Hruška (Islet, 2011).

“This is a broad survey of many aspects of Babylonian culture, and reflects the intellectual climate of the world encountered by the exiles.” - Nick Wyatt, in Society for Old Testament Study Book List 2019

• PrefaceMarkham J. Geller: An AppreciationIrving L. FinkelBibliography of Markham J. GellerStrahil V. Panayotov and Luděk Vacín1 Vetitive and Prohibitive: An ObservationTzvi Abusch2 Sons of Seth and the South WindAmar Annus3 An Old Babylonian Oil Omen Tablet from the British MuseumNetanel Anor4 Disease and Healing in the Book of Tobit and in Mesopotamian MedicineAnnie Attia5 A Transtextual View on the “Underworld Vision of an Assyrian Prince”Johannes Bach6 The 34th Extract of the UGU Series from Babylon: An Edition of the Tablet BM 35512András Bácskay7 Budge’s Syriac Book of Medicines after One Hundred Years: Problems and ProspectsSiam Bhayro and Stefanie M. Rudolf8 An Old Babylonian List of Sheep Body Parts (BM 29663)Yoram Cohen9 Putting Theory into Practice: Kiṣir-Aššur’s Expertise between Textual Knowledge and Practical ExperimentationM. Erica Couto-Ferreira10 A Brief Look EastwardSona Choukassizian Eypper11 Two Old Babylonian Incantation Tablets, Purportedly from Adab (A 633 and A 704)Walter Farber12 Of tirku, Moles and Other Spots on the Skin According to the Physiognomic OmensJeanette C. Fincke13 Amulets against FeverIrving L. Finkel14 A Tale of Two Lands and Two Thousand Years: The Origins of PazuzuEckart Frahm15 Hermeneutics and Magic in the Commentary to Marduk’s Address to the DemonsUri Gabbay16 A New Medical Therapeutic Text on Rectal DiseaseNils P. Heeßel17 Mesopotamian Magic in Text and PerformanceSam Mirelman18 Divine Privilege of the Rich and Powerful? Seeking Healing of Illness by Presenting a Luxurious GiftTakayoshi M. Oshima and Greta Van Buylaere19 BM 32339+32407+32645: New Evidence for Late Babylonian AstrologyMathieu Ossendrijver20 Thunders, Haloes, and Earthquakes: What Daniel Brought from Babylon into Arabic DivinationLucia Raggetti21 At the Dawn of Plant Taxonomy: Shared Structural Design of Herbal Descriptions in Šammu šikinšu and Theophrastus’ Historia plantarum IXMaddalena Rumor22 Simplicia and Unpublished Fragments of Alamdimmû from the British MuseumEric Schmidtchen23 Spiegel des Himmels: Synchronisation von Himmel und Erde in der babylonischen Leberschau, Iatromathematik und dem 20-Felder-SpielMarvin Schreiber24 Elpetu-Rush, Inanna and the Flood: A Tale of Human IngratitudeJoAnn Scurlock25 BAM 7 44: Suppositories for Rectal and Gastro-Intestinal DiseasesKrisztián Simkó26 A Time to Extract and a Time to Compile: The Therapeutic Compendium Tablet BM 78963Henry Stadhouders and J. Cale Johnson27 From Awe to Audacity. Stratagems for Approaching Authorities Successfully: The Istanbul Egalkura Tablet A 373Henry Stadhouders and Strahil V. Panayotov28 BM 92518 and Old Babylonian Incantations for the “Belly”Ulrike Steinert and Luděk Vacín29 Teeth and ToothacheMarten Stol30 Die Fliege und der Tod: Beschwörungen gegen TiereMarie-Louise Thomsen31 Ninmaḫ and Her Imperfect Creatures: The Bed Wetting Man and Remedies to Cure Enuresis (STT 238)Lorenzo Verderame32 “If His Chin Is Constantly Slack…”: A New Text on the Verge between Physiognomic and Diagnostic OmensKlaus Wagensonner33 Five Birds, Twelve Rooms, and the Seleucid Game of Twenty SquaresJohn Z. Wee34 BM 33055: A Late Babylonian Clay Tablet with Figures and CaptionsFrans A.M. WiggermannIndex of Divine NamesIndex of Personal NamesIndex of Geographical NamesIndex of Texts