{"product_id":"melothesia-in-babylonia-markham-judah-geller-9781614517757","title":"Melothesia in Babylonia: Medicine, Magic, and Astrology in the Ancient Near East","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis monograph begins with a puzzle: a Babylonian text from late 5th century BCE Uruk associating various diseases with bodily organs, which has evaded interpretation. The correct answer may reside in Babylonian astrology, since the development of the zodiac in the late 5th century BCE offered innovative approaches to the healing arts. The zodiac--a means of predicting the movements of heavenly bodies--transformed older divination (such as hemerologies listing lucky and unlucky days) and introduced more favorable magical techniques and medical prescriptions, which are comparable to those found in Ptolemy's \u003cem\u003eTetrabiblos\u003c\/em\u003e and non-Hippocratic Greek medicine. Babylonian melothesia (i.e., the science of charting how zodiacal signs affect the human body) offers the most likely solution explaining the Uruk tablet. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Markham Judah Geller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1614517754\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781614517757\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e de Gruyter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/27\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.60h x 6.90w x 0.40d","brand":"Markham Judah Geller","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48449797423359,"sku":"9781614517757","price":140.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_86fea1b6-7f2f-4154-829d-e2a5588f8c54.jpg?v=1777264951","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/melothesia-in-babylonia-markham-judah-geller-9781614517757","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}