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Book SynopsisMesopotamian 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).
Trade Review"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).
Table of ContentsI. 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 & 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 & 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)
