Hippocrates and Galen in Turfan: Remarks on SyrHT 1 and SyrHT 388
This article presents a full edition, with translation and detailed commentary, of SyrHT 1 and SyrHT 388, the only two Syriac medical fragments found in Turfan. Based on a re-examination of the original text, this article shows that the Turfan fragments have parallels in Galen’s De compositione medi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2020]
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Aramaic studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 18, Issue: 2, Pages: 213-239 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Nestorians
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/ Hippokrates, Tyrant -490 BC
/ Turfan texts
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity |
| Further subjects: | B
Syriac medicine
B Hippocrates B Nestorianism B Galen B Turfan |
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| Summary: | This article presents a full edition, with translation and detailed commentary, of SyrHT 1 and SyrHT 388, the only two Syriac medical fragments found in Turfan. Based on a re-examination of the original text, this article shows that the Turfan fragments have parallels in Galen’s De compositione medicamentorum secundum locos and contain elements of Hippocratic recipes as well. This adds further evidence that Syriac Christians had brought Hellenistic medical lore to Turfan at an early date. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5227 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Aramaic studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/17455227-bja10006 |