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Talmudic medical recipes (2)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore



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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore




07 Crafts and economy



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Jews
medicine
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Jewish philosophers and scholars


Text
A recipe in Aboda Zara 28b was employed for an internal problem (ˀstwmkˀ dlybˀ):

‘take (myyty) cumin (kmwnˀ = Akkadian kamūnu), caraway (krwyyˀ), nynyˀ (= Akkadian nīnû), ˀgdnˀ, savory (ṣytry), thyme (ˀbdtˀ, var. ˀbrtˀ), and llybˀ in wine’.

In corresponding Akkadian recipes, plants and minerals were often crushed and mixed with wine to make a potion to be drunk by the patient.


Source (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Babylonian Talmud, Aboda Zara 28b

Bibliography

Geller 2004, 23Geller, Mark J. Akkadian Healing Therapies in the Babylonian Talmud. Preprint 259. Berlin: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte 2004. [PDF]

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Mark Geller


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