Chapter Encyclopaedias and Commentaries

• Tác giả: J. Cale Johnson, J. Geller Markham
• Ngôn ngữ: English
• ISBN: 9781501502507-003
• ISBN-13: 978-1501510762
• ISBN-13: 978-1501502521
• Thông tin xuất bản: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2015
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 178215
• Chủ đề: 1. Ancient religions & mythologies; 2. Christianity; 3. Middle Eastern history

Tóm tắt

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.