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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…
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Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary: Ancient Mesopotamian Commentaries on a Handbook of Medical Diagnosis (Sa-Gig), Cuneiform Monographs Vol. Hardcover -
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- Title Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary: Ancient Mesopotamian Commentaries on a Handbook of Medical Diagnosis (Sa-Gig), Cuneiform Monographs Vol.
- Author John Z. Wee
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 533
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Brill
- Features Bibliography, Glossary
- ISBN 9789004417540 / 9004417540
- Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.7 in (23.62 x 16.00 x 1.78 cm)
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