Markham Geller
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Markham Geller is currently Jewish Chronicle Professor of Semitic Languages at University College London within the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies. From 2011-2018, he was on secondment from UCL as Professor für Wissensgeschichte at the Freie Universität, Berlin, where he was also PI of an ERC Advanced Grant Project BabMed. He is currently a visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin. He has held fellowships at the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung and was twice Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar (NIAS). He was also joint-PI of a multi-year Berlin project on 'Der Transfer medizinischer Episteme in den "enzyklopädischen" Sammelwerken der Spätantike' (DFG funded Sonderforschungsbereich project, Episteme in Bewegung, FU Berlin). He is now collaborator on a British Museum Wellcome-funded project NinMed to produce an online edition of the Nineveh medical library (2020-2022).
His fellowship benefits from the support of the RFIEA+ LABEX, with a national funding (Grant ANR-11-LABX-0027-01).
Research Interests
Ancient Babylonian (cuneiform) medicine; Talmudic (Aramaic) medicine; Syriac medicine; Wissenstransfer in Late Antiquity.
The present project intends to analyze all sources from the Babylonian Talmud relating to medicine and adjacent subjects (e.g. healing through magic and ritual means). These include non-Talmudic Aramaic texts from Late Antiquity which bear remarkable similarities to medicine in the Babylonian Talmud: the Mandaic Phylactery of the Rue, the Syriac Book of Medicines, and the Sword of Moses. The striking similarities between these texts and Talmudic medicine have not been previously noted, but these proved clues to the sources from which Talmudic medicine was derived. The immediate aim is to produce a critical overview of medicine in the Talmud as a source for comparison with other medical systems in the region from approximately the same period. The monograph resulting from this study will thematically order the sources according to medical criteria of diagnostics, therapeutics, and medical narratives and case histories. The next step will focus on crucial aspects of Talmudic medicine, beginning with the most important scholars with expertise in medical matters. The analyses will focus on medical prescriptions / recipes and what they reveal about medical theory. The final stage will concentrate on identification of diseases, symptoms, and drugs in relation to similar descriptions in other systems of medicine contemporary with the Talmud, including texts in Akkadian, Aramaic, and Greek.
 Seminar organized by Markham Geller, Professor of Semitic Languages at University College London, former Paris IAS Fellow, and Alain Berthoz, Collège de France  Workshop organized by Markham Geller, 2020-2021 Paris IAS Fellow, and Victor Gysembergh, CNRS, Centre Léon Robin de recherches sur la pensée antique  Talk by Markham Geller, University College London, and Paris IAS Fellow, during the workshop organized by the Léon Robin Research Center on Ancient Thought.  Lecture by Francesca Rochberg, Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, organized by Markham Geller, Research Fellow at the Paris IAS  Lecture by Christopher Faraone, professeur au département de lettres classiques de l'université de Chicago, organisée par Markham Geller, chercheur en résidence à l'IEA de Paris  Conférence de Markham Geller, chercheur en résidence à l'IEA de Paris dans le cadre du cycle "Jews and Health: Tradition, History, Practice" organisé par le SOAS Centre for Jewish Studies |
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