The image of Mesopotamian divine healers : healing goddesses and the legitimization of professional asûs in the Mesopotamian medical marketplace / by Irene Sibbing-Plantholt

Englisch

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

1 Online-Ressource (XV, 410 Seiten)

Based on author's doctoral dissertation at Unviersity of Pennsylvania in 2017

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe- The image of Mesopotamian divine healers. - Leiden : Brill, 2022. - XV, 410 Seiten

Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2017

978-90-04-51241-2 electronic book

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-90-04-51240-5 (Druckausgabe) print

DOI: 10.1163/9789004512412

Newly understanding healing goddesses and asûs : theory and methods -- The origins of the healing goddess Gula -- Gula in the 2nd and 1st millennia B.C.E. -- Gula compared to other healing goddesses -- An overview of the Mesopotamian medical marketplace -- Rethinking the term "asû" -- Legitimization as a response to competition and the demands of clientele -- The process of Gula becoming the divine legitimization of professional asûs -- Conclusion and suggestions for future research.

*Mesopotamien / Heilgott / Heilkundiger

*Gula -- (Assyro-Babylonian deity) -- Cult ; Assyro-Babylonian cults ; Goddesses in literature ; Goddesses, Assyro-Babylonian ; Healers in literature ; Healers -- Iraq -- History ; Healing gods ; Healing in literature ; Healing -- Iraq -- History ; Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: R135.3

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 610.9567

Book Industry Communication: HBLA

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"This volume exposes one of the world's oldest medical marketplaces and the emergence of medical professionalization within it. Through an unprecedented analysis of the Mesopotamian healing goddesses as well as asûs, a diverse group of "healers", Irene Sibbing-Plantholt demonstrates that from the Middle Babylonian period onwards, the goddess Gula was employed as a divine legitimization model for scholarly, professional asûs. With this work, Sibbing-Plantholt provides a unique insight in processes of medical competition and legitimization in ancient Mesopotamia, which speak to similar processes in other societies"--

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