The Healing Goddess Gula

Author : Barbara Böck
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789004261464

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The Healing Goddess Gula by Barbara Böck Pdf

Providing a comprehensive examination of the traits and areas of authority Ancient Babylonians attributed to their healing goddess, this book draws on a wide range of Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform sources, including god lists, literary compositions, lexical lists, prognostic texts, incantations, and prescriptions. Analysing the use of selected metaphors associated with the goddess, a new perspective is offered on the explanation for disease as well as the motivation for particular treatments. Special chapters deal with the cuneiform handbook on prognosis and diagnosis of diseases, medical incantations appealing to the healing goddess, and the medicinal plants attributed to her. For the first time a body of evidence for the use of simple drugs is brought together, elaborating on specific plant profiles. The result is a volume that challenges many long-held assumptions concerning the specialized cuneiform medical literature and takes a fresh look on the nature of Ancient Babylonian healing.

Author : Barbara Bock
Publisher : Brill Academic Pub
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9004261451

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The Healing Goddess Gula by Barbara Bock Pdf

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 specialised medical literature and addresses the nature of healing in ancient Mesopotamia.

Author : Irene Sibbing-Plantholt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004512412

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The Image of Mesopotamian Divine Healers by Irene Sibbing-Plantholt Pdf

This book presents the first in-depth analysis of Mesopotamian healing goddesses and their relationship to asûs, “healers”. Through this, Sibbing-Plantholt provides unprecedented insight into the diverse Mesopotamian medical marketplace and how professional healers operating within it legitimized themselves.

Author : Paul-Alain Beaulieu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004496804

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The Pantheon of Uruk During the Neo-Babylonian Period by Paul-Alain Beaulieu Pdf

This book is about the pantheon of the Babylonian city of Uruk, between the 9th and 5th centuries BC. It is a careful analysis of the archive of the Eanna temple in Uruk, the sanctuary of the goddess Ishtar, containing well over 8,000 cuneiform tablets in the Akkadian language. The tablets date in their majority to the Neo-Babylonian and early Achaemenid period. Paul-Alain Beaulieu sheds light on the hierarchy of the local pantheon, providing a wealth of data concerning the cult of each deity, such as identity and theology, ornaments and clothing of the divine image, offerings ceremonies, temples, and cultic personnel. An important contribution to our knowledge of the functioning of religion in Neo-Babylonian society.

Author : Douglas R. Frayne,Johanna H. Stuckey
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781646021291

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A Handbook of Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Near East by Douglas R. Frayne,Johanna H. Stuckey Pdf

From the tragic young Adonis to Zašhapuna, first among goddesses, this handbook provides the most complete information available on deities from the cultures and religions of the ancient Near East, including Anatolia, Syria, Israel, Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, and Elam. The result of nearly fifteen years of research, this handbook is more expansive and covers a wider range of sources and civilizations than any previous reference works on the topic. Arranged alphabetically, the entries range from multiple pages of information to a single line—sometimes all that we know about a given deity. Where possible, each record discusses the deity’s symbolism and imagery, connecting it to the myths, rituals, and festivals described in ancient sources. Many of the entries are accompanied by illustrations that aid in understanding the iconography, and they all include references to texts in which the god or goddess is mentioned. Appropriate for both trained scholars and nonacademic readers, this book collects centuries of Near Eastern mythology into one volume. It will be an especially valuable resource for anyone interested in Assyriology, ancient religion, and the ancient Near East.

Author : Gwendolyn Leick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134261284

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The Babylonian World by Gwendolyn Leick Pdf

Exploring all key aspects of the development of this ancient culture, The Babylonian World presents an extensive, up-to-date and lavishly illustrated history of the ancient state Babylonia and its 'holy city', Babylon.

Author : Morris Weiss Jr MD FACP FACC
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9798823004985

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Darwin’s Heart by Morris Weiss Jr MD FACP FACC Pdf

A middle-aged man dying of heart failure consents to an experimental artificial heart. The post-op course was stormy with no improvement. His wish was to die at home, so he was discharged. At the funeral, his wife presented the doctors with a lawsuit, saying “You buried my husband without his heart.” The doctors found his heart, put it back in his chest, and the lawsuit vanished. This case had a profound effect on the author’s thinking and conduct as a physician cardiologist. Dr. Weiss realized doctors focused on the heart as a pump, rather than the symbolic heart and what it represents. This book surveys how a host of ancient cultures, religions, and civilizations envisioned the homo sapiens heart before the advent of modern medicine, and how that understanding will preserve our species.

Author : Gary B. Ferngren,Ekaterina N. Lomperis
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421422909

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Essential Readings in Medicine and Religion by Gary B. Ferngren,Ekaterina N. Lomperis Pdf

Ancient Near East -- Greece -- Rome -- Early Christianity -- The Middle Ages -- Islam / by M.A. Mujeeb Khan -- The early modern period -- The nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries

Author : Markham J. Geller
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119062547

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Ancient Babylonian Medicine by Markham J. Geller Pdf

Utilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets,Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice examinesthe way medicine was practiced by various Babylonian professionalsof the 2nd and 1st millennium B.C. Represents the first overview of Babylonian medicine utilizingcuneiform sources, including archives of court letters, medicalrecipes, and commentaries written by ancient scholars Attempts to reconcile the ways in which medicine and magic wererelated Assigns authorship to various types of medical literature thatwere previously considered anonymous Rejects the approach of other scholars that have attempted toapply modern diagnostic methods to ancient illnesses

Author : Raymond F. Person,Robert Rezetko
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780884141495

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Empirical Models Challenging Biblical Criticism by Raymond F. Person,Robert Rezetko Pdf

Cutting edge reflections on biblical text formation Empirical models based on ancient Near Eastern literature and variations between different textual traditions have been used to lend credibility to the identification of the sources behind biblical literature and the different editorial layers. In this volume, empirical models are used to critique the exaggerated results of identifying sources and editorial layers by demonstrating that, even though much of ancient literature had such complex literary histories, our methods are often inadequate for the task of precisely identifying sources and editorial layers. The contributors are Maxine L. Grossman, Bénédicte Lemmelijn, Alan Lenzi, Sara J. Milstein, Raymond F. Person Jr., Robert Rezetko, Stefan Schorch, Julio Trebolle Barrera, Ian Young, and Joseph A. Weaks. Features: Evidence that many ancient texts are composite texts with complex literary histories Ten essays and an introduction cover texts from Mesopotamia, the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Dead Sea Scrolls

Author : Tammy Mastroberte
Publisher : Sounds True
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-16
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781649632135

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The Higher Help Method by Tammy Mastroberte Pdf

From spiritual teacher Tammy Mastroberte comes an indispensable guide for supercharging your manifestation practice with guidance from the Universe. If you’re struggling to see the changes you desire in life no matter how hard you try to manifest them, it may be time to put down this stressful burden and try something new. There is an easier way to create positive change, and it starts with no longer trying to do it alone. Instead, you can ask the Universe for help and place it in charge to guide you. In The Higher Help Method, award-winning author Tammy Mastroberte affirms the Universe will support you to create what you want—or something even more incredible when you ask it to partner with you and harness its energy. To access the full potential of manifestation, we must learn to invoke the aid and wisdom of the Divine with confidence, receptivity, and trust. Here she shares her tried-and-true system for: • Framing your intentions with clarity—express what you want, why you want it, and how it will make you feel • Calling in specialized higher help—including angels, guides, saints, and loved ones • Shifting your energy—attune to and maintain a higher vibration that magnetizes positive change • Receiving and acting on guidance—recognize how the Universe answers and guides you, and follow its lead You’ll learn how to dive deeper into your practice with specific tools such as custom prayers, exercises, crystals, and rituals for manifesting in seven key areas: money and abundance, health, emotional well-being, relationships, career, parenting, and spiritual connection. “The Universe always responds when you ask for help,” says Mastroberte. “When you learn to trust it as a partner, creating positive change becomes easier, more effective, and much more fun.” With this indispensable guide, you’ll soon become an effective cocreator of your reality, supported by Divine forces to consciously create a life you love.

Author : Autumn Stanley
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813521971

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Mothers and Daughters of Invention by Autumn Stanley Pdf

Stanley traces women's inventions in five vital areas of technology worldwide--agriculture, medicine, reproduction, machines, and computers.

Author : Michael C. Astour
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Civilization, Mycenaean
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Hellenosemitica by Michael C. Astour Pdf

Author : Aubrey Manning,James Serpell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134874279

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Animals and Human Society by Aubrey Manning,James Serpell Pdf

Modern society is beginning to re-examine its whole relationship with animals and the natural world. Until recently issues such as animal welfare and environmental protection were considered the domain of small, idealistic minorities. Now, these issues attract vast numbers of articulate supporters who collectively exercise considerable political muscle. Animals, both wild and domestic, form the primary focus of concern in this often acrimonious debate. Yet why do animals evoke such strong and contradictory emotions in people - and do our western attitudes have anything in common with those of other societies and cultures? Bringing together a range of contributions from distinguished experts in the field, Animals and Society explores the importance of animals in society from social, historical and cross-cultural perspectives.

Author : Tallay Ornan
Publisher : Saint-Paul
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 3525530072

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The Triumph of the Symbol by Tallay Ornan Pdf

This book analyzes the history of Mesopotamian imagery form the mid-second to mid-first millennium BCE. It demonstrates that in spite of rich textual evidence, which grants the Mesopotamian gods and goddesses an anthropmorphic form, there was a clear abstention in various media from visualizing the gods in such a form. True, divine human-shaped cultic images existed in Mesopotamian temples. But as a rule, non-anthropomorphic visual agents such as inanimate objects, animals or fantastic hybrids replaced these figures when they were portrayed outside of their sacred enclosures. This tendency reached its peak in first-millennium Babylonia and Assyria. The removal of the Mesopotamian human-shaped deity from pictorial renderings resembles the Biblical agenda not only in its avoidance of displaying a divine image but also in the implied dual perception of the divine: according to the Bible and the Assyro-Babylonian concept the divine was conceived as having a human form; yet in both cases anthropomorphism was also concealed or rejected, though to a different degree. In the present book, this dual approach toward the divine image is considered as a reflection of two associated rather than contradictory religious worldviews. The plausible consolidation of the relevant Biblical accounts just before the Babylonian Exile, or more probably within the Exile - in both cases during a period of strong Assyrian and Babylonian hegemony - points to a direct correspondence between comparable religious phenomena. It is suggested that far from their homeland and in the absence of a temple for their god, the Judahite deportees adopted and intensified the Mesopotamian avoidance of anthropomorphic picorial portrayals of deities. While the Babylonian representations remained confined to temples, the exiles would have turned a cultic reality - i.e., the nonwritten Babylonian custom - into a written, articulated law that explicity forbade the pictorial representation of God.