{"product_id":"knowledge-and-rhetoric-in-medical-commentary-ancient-mesopotamian-commentaries-on-a-handbook-of-medical-diagnosis-sa-gig-cuneiform-monographs-vol-49-1-9789004417540","title":"Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKnowledge 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The two-volume work of John Z. Wee is a welcome new contribution to the discussion of Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform commentaries—an at times complex and, to readers unaware of its intricacies, often opaque textual genre, mainly known from the late time of Cuneiform Culture. (...) The first volume addresses not only Assyriologists but also scholars interested in the history of medicine and the history of interpretation and science. The study presented here includes a great many detailed discussions and presentations of interrelated issues within Mesopotamian commentary literature particularly in relation to the DH and its structure, as well as the context of these commentaries and their arguments in respect to their use and institutional background. Volume two provides the relevant data, presenting a collective edition of all commentaries on the DH so far known. This offers the particular advantage of making all relevant data accessible in a printed, citable form together with detailed philological commentaries and discussions on difficult or peculiar words and phrases.\"  - Eric Schmidtchen, Université de Genève, in Bibliotheca Orientalis LXXVIII N° 3-4 (2021).    \"In short, John Wee’s Knowledge and Rhetorical in Medical Commentary in an erudite and refreshing analysis of Sa-gig and its commentaries. Although a highly specialized subject, some of his broader observations about serialization, canonization, textual sources of authority, and embedded variants may be helpful for folks in religious studies thinking about so-called canon, interpretive practices and textual sources of authority, and the boundaries in the ancient world of what we often designate science and literature.\"  - William Brown, in The Biblical Review, 2021.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI. Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary  Preface  Acknowledgements  Contents (Two Volumes)  List of Figures  Medical Text Labels and Abbreviations  Format and Translation Issues  Glossary    I.1  Introduction to the Sa-gig Commentaries   I.1.1  The Situatedness of Commentaries   I.1.2  The Diagnostic Handbook Sa-gig and Its Serialization   I.1.3  Serialized Variants and Their Interpretation   I.1.4  The Presentation of Alternatives in Text Series and Commentaries    Chapter Two: Commentary and Scholastic Rhetoric  I.2.1 Commentary Designations and Scribal Actors   I.2.1.1 “Glossary” (ṣâtu)   I.2.1.2 “Oral Lore” (šūt pî)   I.2.1.3 “Readings” (malsûtu)   I.2.1.4 “Questionings” (mašʾaltu)   I.2.1.5 “From the Mouth of the Ummânu-scholar” (ša pî ummâni)   I.2.1.6 Patterns of Commentary Designations    I.2.2 Textual Sources of Authority   I.2.2.1 Lexical Text Citations   I.2.2.2 Narratival Intertextuality    I.2.2 Forms of Argumentation   I.2.3.1 Two-Member Arguments   I.2.3.2 Multiple Member Arguments   I.2.3.3 Single Member Arguments    I.2.4 Exemplar and License in Scholastic Hermeneutics    Chapter Three: Commentary and Medical Knowledge  I.3.1 Epistemic Progression in Medical Practice and Texts   I.3.1.1 The Therapeutic Tradition   I.3.1.2 Structuring the Diagnostic Handbook    I.3.2  Harmonizing Texts and Phenomena   I.3.2.1 Knowledge Assumptions in Topic Choice   I.3.2.2 The Pericope and Omissions from Topics   I.3.2.3 Comment Choice and Argument as Pretext    I.3.1  Habits of Use and the Cuneiform Handbook    I.4 Conclusion: Scholasticism and the Boundaries for Interpretation    Appendix One: Embedded Variants in the Diagnostic Handbook Sa-gig    Appendix Two: Transliterations of Medical Texts  Bibliography  Index of Excerpts (Two Volumes)    II. Mesopotamian Commentaries on the  Diagnostic Handbook Sa-gig  Preface  Acknowledgements  Contents (Two Volumes)  Medical Text Labels and Abbreviations  Format and Translation Issues    Chapter One: Edition of the Sa-gig Commentaries    II.1.1 Commentary Sa-gig 1A    II.1.2 Commentary Sa-gig 1B    II.1.3 Commentary Sa-gig 1C    II.1.4 Commentary Sa-gig 1D    II.1.5 Commentary Sa-gig 1–3    II.1.6 Commentary Sa-gig 3A    II.1.7 Commentary Sa-gig 3B    II.1.8 Commentary Sa-gig 3C    II.1.9 Commentary Sa-gig 4A    II.1.10 Commentary Sa-gig 4B    II.1.11 Commentary Sa-gig 4C    II.1.12 Commentary Sa-gig 5    II.1.13 Commentary Sa-gig 7A    II.1.14 Commentary Sa-gig 7B    II.1.15 Commentary Sa-gig 7Ca    II.1.16 Commentary Sa-gig 7Cb    II.1.17 Commentary Sa-gig 7Cc (?)    II.1.18 Commentary Sa-gig 10 \u0026amp; 11    II.1.19 Commentary Sa-gig 13+    II.1.20 Commentary Sa-gig 14    II.1.21 Commentary Sa-gig 18    II.1.22 Commentary Sa-gig 19    II.1.23 Commentary Sa-gig 21 \u0026amp; 22a    II.1.24 Commentary Sa-gig 23    II.1.25 Commentary Sa-gig 29    II.1.26 Commentary Sa-gig 34    II.1.27 Commentary Sa-gig 36    II.1.28 Commentary Sa-gig 39    II.1.29 Commentary Sa-gig 40A    II.1.30 Commentary Sa-gig 40B    Chapter Two: Commentary Notations    II.2.1 Disjunction Sign    II.2.2 “The Case of \/ Where” (ša)    II.2.3 “Which It Said” (ša iqbû)    II.2.4 “As in” (libbû)    II.2.5 “Complement to” (IGI \/ pāni)    II.2.6 “(Points) to” (ana)    II.2.7 “The Usual (Meaning)” (kayyān)    II.2.8 Other Notations    Photographs  Bibliography    Index of Excerpts (Two Volumes)","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51586054979927,"sku":"9789004417540","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/knowledge-and-rhetoric-in-medical-commentary-ancient-mesopotamian-commentaries-on-a-handbook-of-medical-diagnosis-sa-gig-cuneiform-monographs-vol-49-1-9789004417540","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}