Chapter Encyclopaedias and Commentaries
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Johnson, J. Cale (editor)
Collection
European Research Council (ERC)Language
EnglishAbstract
This paper looks at how empirical knowledge was assembled and interpreted in Babylonian academies and investigates two Neo-Assyrian plant lists: KADP 2 and KADP 4. These two lists are not simple collections of scholastic information but represent examples of theoretical botany and pharmacology. It is suggested that KADP 4 is a kind of proto-commentary, in which glosses represent key-words for hermeneutical elaborations. The paper concludes with an annotated transliteration and translation of KADP 4.
Keywords
early scientific thought; compilation and redaction in the ancient world; infrastructural compendia; empiricismDOI
10.1515/9781501502507-003ISBN
9781501510762; 9781501502521OCN
1135849609Publisher
De GruyterPublisher website
https://www.degruyter.com/Publication date and place
Berlin/Boston, 2015Grantor
Classification
Middle Eastern history
Christianity
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