Description: Scientific Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East by Amber Jacob, Kim Ryholt, Sofie SchiØdt Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Comparative insights on astronomy, divination, and medicine from ancient textsScientific Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East presents a collection of articles by leading scholars on scientific practices in the ancient world, with emphasis on the fields of medicine, astronomy, astrology, and other forms of divination. The essays engage with a wide variety of textual sources in many different languages and scripts from Egypt and the Near East spanning more than a millennium, including some texts that are edited and discussed here for the first time. The contributors to this volume were tasked with approaching their texts not only as specialists, but also from a cross-cultural perspective, and the resulting body of work reveals new and exciting evidence for the transfer of scientific knowledge across cultural borders in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East.This book will be of interest primarily to specialists in the history of medicine, science, divination, and magic, as well as to papyrologists, Egyptologists, and Assyriologists. Author Biography Sofie SchiØdt (Author) Sofie SchiØdt is an Egyptologist specializing in pharaonic medicine, magic, and mummification. She is a postdoctoral researcher at Eberhard Karls Universität TÜbingen and co-director of the international research project Scientific Papyri from Ancient Egypt in Cross-Cultural Perspective (SciPap) at the University of Copenhagen. She is currently preparing the text edition of the second-longest medical text preserved from ancient Egypt, P.Louvre-Carlsberg.Amber Jacob (Author) Amber Jacob is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University and co-director of the SciPap project. Her work centers on Egyptian medical practice in Graeco-Roman Egypt and its cross-cultural implications. Her dissertation presents the editio princeps of an unpublished corpus of Demotic medical texts from Tebtunis.Kim Ryholt (Author) Kim Ryholt is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Copenhagen, director of the Papyrus Carlsberg Collection, and founder and former director of the SciPap project. He specializes in ancient Egyptian history, literature, and historiography. Details ISBN 1479823139 ISBN-13 9781479823130 Title Scientific Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East Author Amber Jacob, Kim Ryholt, Sofie SchiØdt Format Hardcover Year 2023 Pages 458 Publisher New York University Press GE_Item_ID:144716544; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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ISBN-13: 9781479823130
Book Title: Scientific Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
Number of Pages: 458 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Scientific Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean and near East : Joint Proceedings of the 1st and 2nd Scientific Papyri from Ancient Egypt International Conferences, May 2018, Copenhagen, and September 2019, New York
Publisher: New York University Press
Item Height: 1.4 in
Subject: Archaeology, Ancient / Egypt
Publication Year: 2023
Item Weight: 47.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 11.2 in
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Author: Amber Jacob, Kim Ryholt, Sofie Schiødt
Item Width: 8.9 in
Series: Isaw Monographs
Format: Hardcover
