Mark Geller
Markham Judah Geller (* 1949 ) is an American ancient orientalist .
Life
He completed his first degree in Classics at Princeton University (BA 1970 A Study of Pseudo-Philo's Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum ), of which he spent a year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . He received his PhD in Mediterranean Studies from Brandeis University in 1973 , where he was introduced to several Semitic languages, including Aramaic, Akkadian, Ugaritic, and Arabic, and wrote his dissertation on Aramaic magic bowls in relation to rabbinic texts. He is the Jewish Chronicle Professor of Jewish Studies at University College London .
Fonts (selection)
- Forerunners to Udug-hul. Sumerian exorcistic incantations . Wiesbaden 1985. ISBN 3-515-04403-5 .
- Renal and Rectal Disease Texts . Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-11-017964-4 .
- Evil demons. Canonical Utukku-Lemnutu incantations . Helsinki 2007. ISBN 952-10-1331-1 .
- Ancient Babylonian medicine. Theory and Practice . Chichester 2010, ISBN 1-4051-2652-3 .
- Melothesia in Babylonia. Medicine, magic, and astrology in the ancient near east . Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-1-61451-775-7 .
literature
- Strahil V. Panayotov and Luděk Vacín (eds.): Mesopotamian medicine and magic. studies in honor of Markham J. Geller . Leiden 2018, ISBN 90-04-36806-X .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Geller, Mark |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Geller, Markham Judah; Geller, Markham J .; Geller, MJ |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ancient orientalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1949 |