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Melothesia in Babylonia. Medicine, Magic, and Astrology in the Ancient Near East

medicine, magic, and astrology in the ancient near east

Also known as Melothesia in Babylonia

by Markham Judah Geller

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  • 21st century
  • Language: English
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This book examines the Babylonian backgroundof melothesia, the science of charting zodiac influences on the human body, which transformed older divination by connecting astrology with medical techniques. Special attention is given to a text from late-5th-century Uruk, which is argued to be an important representative of this new approach to the healing arts, previously only known from Greek and medieval astrology.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Astrology, Divination and oracles, and Ritual magic and grimoires.

  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the title, “Magic” in the subtitle, “Magic” in the subject metadata, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Magic”· in title
    • “Magic”· in subtitle
    • “Magic”· in subject
    • “Magic”· in edition title
    • “Magic”· in edition subtitle
  • Astrology

    Controlled discovery queries from harvard, oapen, and openalex matched “astrology”. Retained metadata contains “Astrology” in the title, “Astrology” in the subtitle, “Astrology” in the description, and 4 additional metadata match(es).

    • “astrology”· via Harvard LibraryCloud
    • “astrology”· via OAPEN Library
    • “astrology”· via OpenAlex
    • “Astrology”· in title
    • “Astrology”· in subtitle
    • “Astrology”· in description
  • Divination and oracles

    Retained metadata contains “Divination” in the description and “Divination” in the subject metadata.

    • “Divination”· in description
    • “Divination”· in subject

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

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medicine, magic, and astrology in the ancient near east

OAPEN Library open-access edition

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2014De Gruyter; OAPEN (The OAPEN Foundation)English
  • 9781614516934
  • 9781614517757
  • 9781614519348
  • 1614517754
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Catalog id
oapen:20.500.12657/24651
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