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Talmudic medical recipes (10)

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Aramaic language
Jews
medicine
naming
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Jewish philosophers and scholars

Text
Babylonian Talmud, Gittin 69a:
“For the disease ˀyptwḥy, let him blow white cress stalks through a reed straw (into the mouth/nose.”

Two of the words in this recipe can be identified in Akkadian, namely tḥly = Akkadian sahlû, ‘cress’ and ḥbryh = Akkadian habbūru, ‘stalk’. Similar procedures can be found in Akkadian texts, e.g. ‘you blow pressed oil into his nostrils with a takkussu-reed and he will get better’ (šamna halṣa ina takkussi ana nahīrīšu tanappahma iballuṭ) (BAM 3 i 39).

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Babylonian Talmud, Gittin 69a
BAM 3 i 39

Bibliography

Geller 2000, 22-23Geller, Mark J. “An Akkadian Vademecum in the Babylonian Talmud.” In: S. Kottek and M. Horstmanshoff (eds.). From Athens to Jerusalem. Medicine in Hellenized Jewish Lore and in Early Christian Literature. Rotterdam: Erasmus Publishing 2000, 13-32.

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Cf. Talmudic nosebleed recipes (2)

Amar Annus


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