Infecting the Ancient Mesopotamian Cosmos
Epidemics and the Transmission of Disease in Assyria and Babylonia
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher De Gruyter
- Date of Publication 1 June 2026
- ISBN 9783112238615
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages120 pages
- Size 280x210 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 Illustrations, unspecified 700
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Short description:
Franz Köcher's magnum opus on Babylonian and Assyrian medicine, which was envisioned to include cuneiform copies, translations, and commentary, was unfinished at his death in 2002 with six volumes of cuneiform copies accompanied by brief introductory comments and citation of parallels and duplicates. Publication of the series is being resumed, under the editorship of Robert Biggs and Marten Stol. The new volumes include full translations and philological commentary, thus making Babylonian and Assyrian medical texts accessible to historians of ancient medicine in up-to-date studies.
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Epidemics have shaped human history, yet studies of their ancient attestations remain a developing field. This volume examines how epidemics were conceptualized, experienced, and responded to in Mesopotamia from the 3rd to the 1st millennium BCE. Drawing on cuneiform sources, contributors explore ancient terminology, beliefs about disease transmission, divine attributions, and societal impacts. The book investigates ritual, medical, epistolary, and administrative texts to assess how people sought to understand and control widespread diseases. By contextualizing Mesopotamian epidemics within broader historical frameworks, the volume highlights their role in shaping socio-political responses and the intellectual reasoning behind such devastating events. Essential for Assyriologists, historians of medicine, and researchers of ancient societies, this work offers new insights into humanity’s earliest written records of epidemics.
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