Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary : Ancient Mesopotamian Commentaries on a Handbook of Medical Diagnosis (Sa-gig). [OFFERED WITH ITS COMPANION VOLUME]: Mesopotamian Commentaries on the Diagnostic Handbook Sa-gig

Leiden: Brill, 2019. First edition. Octavo. 2 volumes. xxxix, (1), 493, (1); xxxii, 481, (1)pp. Bibliographies and indices.. Blue buckram lettered in white with 5/8" yellow band at top edges.

"Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary is intended for historians of medicine and interpretation, and explores the dynamic between scholastic rhetoric and medical knowledge in ancient commentaries on a Mesopotamian Diagnostic Handbook. In line with commentators' self-fashioning as experts of diverse disciplines, commentaries display intertextuality involving a variety of lexical, astronomical, religious, magic, and literary compositions, while employing patterns of argumentation that resist categorization within any single branch of knowledge. Commentators' choices of topics and comments, however, sought to harmonize atypical language and ideas in the Handbook with conventional ways of perceiving and describing the sick body in therapeutic recipes. Scholastic rhetoric-supposedly unfettered to any discipline-served in fact as a pretext for affirming current forms of medical knowledge. Mesopotamian Commentaries on the Diagnostic Handbook Sa-gig is intended for specialists in cuneiform studies, and includes a cuneiform edition, English translation, and notes on medical lexicography for thirty Sa-gig commentary tablets and fragments, as well as a study on technical notations recurring in these commentaries. Within the Cuneiform Monographs series, this book represents a companion volume to Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary (Brill, 2019)"-- (Publisher)

Contents: Volume 1. Knowledge and rhetoric in medical commentary -- Volume 2. Mesopotamian Commentaries on the diagnostic handbook Sa-gig.

Part of the Brill series, "Cuneiform Monographs" Volumes 49/1 and 49/2 (published 10 days apart in December, 2009).