Disease in Babylonia......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
1. “Fire” as Fever......Page 10
2. ummu “Fever”......Page 12
3. li'bu......Page 20
4. di'u “malaria”......Page 24
6. ḫamāṭu “to be Inflamed”......Page 28
8. ḫunṭu “Fever” (in Assyrian)......Page 30
II. Sun-heat......Page 31
1. Texts about Sun-heat......Page 34
2. Isolated Passages about Sun-heat......Page 41
3. Some Aspects of Sun-heat......Page 45
4. Types of Sun-heat......Page 46
Nathan Wassermann: Between Magic and Medicine—Apropos of an Old Babylonian Therapeutic Text against the Kuràrum Disease......Page 49
Bibliography......Page 69
Transliteration......Page 71
Translation......Page 72
Commentary......Page 73
I The Sources......Page 76
II Initial Considerations......Page 77
III Kadibbidû......Page 81
IV Treatment and Selected Prescriptions......Page 83
V The Relevance of Ludlul, Tablet II......Page 93
VI Tablet XXVII of the Diagnostic Series: A New Translation......Page 95
VII Commentary......Page 100
Volkert Haas: Hittite Rituals against Threats and Other Diseases and Their Relationship to the Mesopotamian Traditions......Page 109
References......Page 127
Nils P. Heessel: The Hands of the Gods: Disease Names, and Divine Anger......Page 129
List of Cited Literature......Page 139
Hector Avalos: Epilepsy in Mesopotamia Reconsidered......Page 140
Walter Farber: Lamaštu—Agent of a Specific Disease or a Generic Destroyer of Health?......Page 146
Tzvi Abusch: Witchcraft, Impotence, and Indigestion......Page 155
Theodore Kwasman: The Demon of the Roof......Page 169
1. “sons of the roof"......Page 174
3. “constellation demons”......Page 178
4. “palm demons”......Page 179
Conclusion......Page 180
Appendix A......Page 182
Appendix B......Page 183
Appendix B1......Page 186
Appendix D......Page 188
Markham J. Geller: Phlegm and Breath—Babylonian Contributions to Hippocratic Medicine......Page 196
John M. Riddle: Women’s Medicines in Ancient Jewish Sources: Fertility Enhancers and Inhibiters......Page 209
Bitter Medicines......Page 212
Root Medicines......Page 214
Book of Jasher......Page 218
“Wretched Surely”: Modern Hints about Ancient Lore......Page 219
Date Palm......Page 221
Conclusion......Page 223
Ellis Douek: Ancient and Contemporary Management in a Disease of Unknown Aetiology......Page 224
INDEX......Page 228