Barbara Böck

Datos Biográficos

ID3662323
NOMBREBarbara Böck
NOMBRESBarbara
APELLIDOBöck
FIRMABOCK B
AFILIACIONESConsejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
ORCID0000-0002-0028-5160
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS15
TOTAL DE CITAS4
OBRAS COMO AUTOR15
OBRAS COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1999
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H2

  • A Review of Ethnobotanical, Ecological and Lexical Evidence to Identify a Biblical Plant

    Open AccessA Dafni, Barbara BöckARTICLEJournal of Ethnobiology2025

    Since the Medieval period, many translators and commentators of the Bible encountered difficulties in understanding the phrase “dove's dung,” in relation to an edible substance, as mentioned in the Book of Kings (i.e., 2 Kings 6:25). We re-examine the suggestions and interpretations used to identify “dove's dung” as a specific plant. Our analysis is based on an exhaustive review of ecological data, geographic distribution of different plants, lex…

  • The Babylonian Ars medica and the Uruk text SpTU I 43

    Barbara BöckARTICLEOrientalistische Literaturzeitung2023

  • The rise and fall of mandrake in medicine

    Open AccessGustavo Benítez, Marco Leonti et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnopharmacology2023

  • Medicinal plants of the Bible-revisited

    Open AccessA Dafni, Barbara BöckARTICLEJournal of Ethnobiology and…2019Citada por: 2Referencias: 52

    BackgroundPrevious lists number from 55 to 176 plant species as "Biblical Medicinal Plants." Modern studies attest that many names on these lists are no longer valid. This situation arose due to old mistranslations and/or mistakes in botanical identification. Many previously recognized Biblical plants are in no way related to the flora of the Bible lands. Accordingly, the list needs revision.MethodsWe re-examine the list of possible medicinal pla…

  • Ancient Mesopotamian Religion

    Open AccessBarbara BöckARTICLEReligion Compass2015Referencias: 19

    In his introduction to Ancient Mesopotamia, A. L. Oppenheim expressed his doubts about the feasibility to write a systematic account of Mesopotamian religion (, p. 172; cf.). Indeed, if we understand religion as the sum of individual, conceptual and social concepts and take into account the nature and the state of preservation of the sources, it becomes evident that any description must remain incomplete. This is also the case when portraying the…

  • The Oxford handbook of cuneiform culture

    Barbara Böck, Karen Radner et al.BOOKThe Oxford handbook of cuneiform…2011

    "The cuneiform script, the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia, was witness to one of the world's oldest literate cultures. For over three millennia, it was the vehicle of communication from (at its greatest extent) Iran to the Mediterranean, Anatolia to Egypt. The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture examines the Ancient Middle East through the lens of cuneiform writing. The contributors, a mix of scholars from across the disciplines, explore,…

  • Buchbesprechungen

    Barbara BöckARTICLEZeitschrift für Assyriologie und…2010

    vided for the convenience of the reader.A good example of such a tool is the Appendix with a Table of Eclipses by John Steele found on pp.390-399 of Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia, vol.V. Other indexes, even of the computer-generated type such as those in the State Archives of Assyria series, would be of great assistance to the reader.One observation that can be made is that a sort of ancient name of the Goal Year Texts,4 .…

  • Reading the Human Body

    Barbara BöckARTICLEJournal for the Study of Judaism2009

  • Three New Sources of Muššuʾu

    Barbara BöckARTICLEJournal of Cuneiform Studies2009Referencias: 1

  • Disease in Babylonia (review)

    Barbara BöckARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2008

    Reviewed by: Disease in Babylonia Barbara Böck Irving L. FinkelMarkham J. Geller, eds. Disease in Babylonia. Cuneiform Monographs, vol. 36. Leiden: Brill, 2007. viii + 226 pp. $122.00, €90.00 (ISBN-10: 90-04-12401-2; ISBN-13: 978-90-04-12401-1). Disease in Babylonia is a compilation of thirteen essays edited by two distinguished experts for cuneiform medicine, Irving L. Finkel and Markham J. Geller. The contributions stem from a conference held i…

  • Überlegungen Zu Einem Kultfest Der Altmesopotamischen Göttin Inanna

    Barbara BöckARTICLENumen2004

    The present study aims at interpreting a Sumerian hymn pertaining to the cult of the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love and war, Inanna/Ištar. Though this literary composition belongs to the realm of royal religion, and centres on the relationship between the goddess and the royal personage, the hymn also provides an insight into a cultic feast of rather popular character. The text describes a ritual; its inner logic follows the course of a cul…

  • When You Perform the Ritual of ‘Rubbing’”

    Barbara BöckARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies2003Citada por: 2

  • Die Babylonisch-Assyrische Morphoskopie

    Jo Ann Scurlock, Barbara BöckARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2003

  • "An Esoteric Babylonian Commentary" Revisited

    Barbara BöckARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2000

    This paper aims at interpreting a previously published Babylonian commentary. It is suggested that the tablet provides a further example of a later corpus of texts that reveal the predominance of astrology over other divinatory techniques

  • Mark Rothko. Jeffrey Weiss

    Phil Bock, Barbara BöckARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research1999