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Author Böck, Barbara (Barbara Alexandra)

Title The healing goddess Gula : towards an understanding of ancient babylonian medicine / by Barbara Bo·ck
Published Leiden, Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (231 pages)
Series Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; Volume 67
Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; v. 67.
Contents Preface; Chapter One Introduction; 1.1 Presentation of the Study; 1.2 Scope and Structure of the Book; Chapter Two The Healing Goddess Gula: A Portrait; 2.1 Gula's Position in the Pantheon and Her Appearance in Literature; 2.2 Gula in the Life of the Ancient Mesopotamians; 2.3 Gula's Dog; Chapter Three Gula's 'Hand' in the Handbook of Diagnosis and Prognosis, Sakikkû; 3.1 Sakikkû VI: 19; 3.2 Sakikkû XII iv: 16; 3.3 Sakikkû XIII i: 55'; 3.4 Sakikkû XXXIII; 3.5 Sakikkû XL; 3.6 'Ninurta's Hands'; Chapter Four Gula and Healing Spells; 4.1 Healing Spells Appealing to Gula
4.2 Healing Spells Referring to Gula and Her Dog4.3 Incantations about Simmu, Skin Sore; 4.4 Standard Formulas in Healing Spells Referring to Gula; 4.5 The Metaphorical Language of Healing Spells; Chapter Five Gula's Healing Plants; 5.1 The Bu'šānu Plant aka Lišān Kalbi Plant; 5.2 The Sasuntu Plant; Chapter Six The Cultural Setting of Ancient Babylonian Medicine; 6.1. The Healing Goddess in the Medical Literature: A Recapitulation; 6.2. Religion, Magic, Medicine; Bibliography; Index of Names and Subjects; Index of Words Discussed; Incantation Incipits; Texts Cited
Summary Providing a comprehensive study of the Ancient Babylonian healing goddess, this book employs a range of Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform sources. The resulting volume challenges many long-held assumptions concerning the specialized medical literature and addresses the nature of healing in Ancient Mesopotamia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 31, 2013)
Subject Healing gods.
Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian.
History, Ancient
RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
Healing gods
Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004261464
900426146X
130602806X
9781306028066