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Comparative insights on astronomy, divination, and medicine from ancient texts

The contributions in this volume revolve around a set of interconnected topics in the ancient sciences: medicine, astronomy, astrology, and divination. Several essays present unpublished textual sources or editions of new source material on divination (e.g., dream interpretation, personal astrology, and Sothis divination) and medicine (e.g., dermatology, gynecology, and apotropaic incantations). Other contributions provide new insights into known corpora or texts, such as the Assyro-Babylonian omens, the Hippocratic treatise Places in Man, Greco-Egyptian medical texts, and the vast astronomical corpus of Greco-Roman Egypt. The interdisciplinary milieu in which these essays were generated, under the aegis of the international Scientific Papyri from Ancient Egypt (SciPap) project, means that many of the studies embrace an explicitly and well-researched cross-cultural and comparative approach, revealing similarities in both certain conceptualizations of disease and healing, and astronomical literature and divinatory practice, across the Mediterranean and Near East.

This book will be of interest primarily to specialists in the history of medicine, science, divination, and magic, as well as to papyrologists, Egyptologists, and Assyriologists.


About the Author: Sofie Schiødt (Author)
Sofie Schiødt is a postdoctoral researcher at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and co-director of the Scientific Papyri from Ancient Egypt (SciPap) project. Dr. Schiødt's research interests lie in pharaonic medicine, magic, and mummification. Her current publication project is the scholarly text edition of the second-longest medical text preserved from ancient Egypt, P.Louvre-Carlsberg.

Amber Jacob (Author)
Amber Jacob is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU, and co-director of the Scientific Papyri from Ancient Egypt (SciPap) project. Her research focuses on the history of medicine, particularly the intercultural contact between Egyptian and Greek medicine in the Graeco-Roman period. Her dissertation will include the editio princeps of an unpublished corpus of Demotic medical texts from Tebtunis in Egypt's Fayum Oasis. Recent publications include articles on skin diseases in Graeco-Roman Egypt and studies of the Egyptian pharmacological tradition in demotic medical and literary texts.

Kim Ryholt (Author)
Kim Ryholt is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies (ToRS), Director of the Papyrus Carlsberg Collection, and supervisory member of the Scientific Papyri from Ancient Egypt (SciPap) project. He specializes in ancient Egyptian history, literature, and historiography. Among his many publications is the recent Libraries Before Alexandria: Ancient Near Eastern Tradition.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781479823130
  • Publisher: New York University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: New York University Press
  • Height: 284 mm
  • No of Pages: 400
  • Spine Width: 36 mm
  • Weight: 1364 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1479823139
  • Publisher Date: 29 Aug 2023
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Joint Proceedings of the 1st and 2nd Scientific Papyri from Ancient Egypt International Conferences, May 2018, Copenhagen, and September 2019, New Y
  • Width: 218 mm


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