Recently added articles from The Journal of the American Oriental Society:
The twilight of the Masters: Masters Literature (zishu) in early medieval China.(Critical essay)
Oct 01, 2006; Tlan, Xlaofei ... INTRODUCTION In the early period of Chinese history, the notion of authorship is closely tied to the notion of sagehood. It is not that being a sage necessarily entails creating and writing (zuo [NON ASCII]), but rather that one must be a sage to create and write. In his paper ...
The Buddhist "monastery" and the Indian garden: aesthetics, assimilations, and the siting of monastic establishments.(Essay)
Oct 01, 2006; Schopen, Gregory ... --Fur Oskar von Hiniiber als kleines Zeichen eines grossen Dankes-- The vocabulary we use to refer to early Buddhist establishments in India could hardly be more different from the vocabulary that early Buddhist authors or compilers used to refer to the same places, (1) nor ...
The fifty names of Marduk in Enuma elis.(Critical essay)
Oct 01, 2006; Seri, Andrea ... Enumu elis is one of the few Akkadian texts that are relatively well known beyond the cryptic domain of the Assyriologist. The "popularity" of Enuma elis seems to relate, at least in part, to one of its most transparent themes, namely, the creation of the universe. An emphasis on the ...
A local historian's debt to al- Tabari: The case of al-Azdi's Ta'rikh al-Mawsil.(Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari, Yazid ibn Muhammad al-Azdi)(Critical essay)
Oct 01, 2006; Robinson, Chase F. ... In 1969 Paul Forand published in this journal the results of his reading of Yazid ibn Muhammad al-Azdi's Ta'rikh al-Mawsil, which was at this point only available to him on a film of the Chester Beatty manuscript. (1) Although chiefly interested in reconstructing some of the administrative ...
To beat or not to beat: on the exegetical dilemmas over Qur'an, 4:34.(Critical essay)
Oct 01, 2006; Mahmaoud, Mohamed ... THE VERSE AND THE PROBLEM The Qur'an contains many verses that may be described as "problematic." Such verses pose problems because of several factors, including what they mean or whether their meaning should be taken literally or figuratively. Sometimes the problem of ...
Syntactic marginalia in Old Babylonian.
Oct 01, 2006; Cohen, Eran ... This review article consists of two parts: the first briefly refers to the edition itself, while the second and more substantial part points out various important syntactic issues which arise from a close examination of the letters therein. These issues are discussed and expanded upon, ...
Wei Yao's disquisition on boyi.(Critical essay)
Oct 01, 2006; Lien, Y. Edmund ... Wei Yao (204?-273?), (1) a scholar-official in the Wu court during the Sanguo period, is said to have written "Boyi lun" or "A Disquisition on boyi" upon command of the heir-designate Sun He (224-253). At the time, he served the prince as a close advisor with the official title of palace ...
Erwin Ritter von Zach (1872-1942), Gesammelte Rezensionen.(Erwin Ritter von Zach (1872-1942), Gesammelte Rezensionen: Chinesische Geschichte, Religion und Philosophie in der Kritik)(Book review)
Oct 01, 2006; Knechtges, David R. ... Erwin Ritter von Zach (1872-1942), Gesammelte Rezensionen: Chinesische Geschichte, Religion und Philosophie in der Kritik. Edited by HARMUT WALRAVENS. ASIEN-UND AFRIKA-STUDIEN 22 DER HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITAT ZU BERLIN. WIESBADEN: HARRASSOWITZ VERLAG,2005. [ero]48. This is a ...
Bronzekunst Urartus.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2006; Zimansky, Paui ... Bronzekunst Urartus. By URSULA SEIDL. Mainz: VERLAG PHILIPP VON ZABERN, 2004. Pp. ix + 218, plates. [euro]86. Materials in bronze, particularly belts, plaques, and pieces of military equipment, are among the most abundant surviving artifacts of Urartian civilization, but to ...
Nineveh: Papers of the [XLIX.sup.e] Rencontre Assyriologique International, London, 7-11 July 2003.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2006; Melville, Sarah C. ... Nineveh: Papers of the [XLIX.sup.e] Rencontre Assyriologique International, London, 7-11 July 2003. Edited by DOMINIQUE COLLON and ANDREW GEORGE. London: BRITISH SCHOOL OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN IRAQ, 2005. 2 volumes. Pp. xiv + 427, illus. (paper). The volumes under review contain ...
Judah and the Judeans in the Neo-Babylonian Period.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2006; Holm, Twanyh L. ... Judah and the Judeans in the Neo-Babylonian Period. Edited by ODED LIPSCHITS and JOSEPH BELENKINSOPP. Winona Lake, Ind.: ESENBRAUNS, 2003. Pp. xii + 612. $49.50. This volume publishes the proceedings of a conference of the same title held at the University of Tel Aviv, May ...
Song of Songs.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2006; Holm, Tawny L. ... Song of Songs. By J. CHERYL EXUM. The Old Testament Library. Louisville: WESTMINSTER JOHN KNOX PRESS, 2005. Pp. xxiii + 263. $39.95. For such a small book, the Song of Songs has always received a prodigious amount of attention, and 2005 was a lively year again for the production ...
2 Samuel.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2006; Adam, Klaus-peter ... 2 Samuel. By ANTONY F. CAMPBELL, S.J. The Forms of the Old Testament Literature, vol. 8. Grand Rapids, Michigan: WILLIAM B. EERDMANS PUBLISHING CO., 2005, Pp. xiv + 242. $50 (paper). This is the second volume of a commentary, the first dealing with 1 Samuel already published in ...
Hosea.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2006; Hutton, Jeremy M. ... Hosea.By EHUD BEN ZVI. The Forms of the Old Testament Literature, vol. 21A/1. Grand Rapids,Michigan: WM. B. EERDMANS PUBLISHING Co., 2005. Pp. xiii + 321. $55 (paper). Ehud Ben Zvi's commentary on Hosea is a significant work not only on the book of Hosea, but also on the theory ...
The Tafila-Busayra Archaeological Survey 1999-2001, West Central Jordan.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2006; Crowell, Bradley L. ... The Tafila-Busayra Archaeological Survey 1999-2001, West Central Jordan. By B.MACDONALD et al. American Schools of Oriental Research Archaeological Reports, vol. 9. Boston: American schools of oriental research, 2004. Pp. xvi + 435, illus. $99.95. Burton MacDonald offers in this ...
Das altagyptische "Zweiwegebuch": Studien zu den Sargtextspriichen 1029-1130.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2006; Quack, Joachim Friedrich ... Das altagyptische "Zweiwegebuch": Studien zu den Sargtextspriichen 1029-1130. By BURKHARD BACKES. Agyptologische Abhandlungen, vol. 69. Wiesbaden: HARRASSOWITZ VERLAG, 2005. Pp. xiv + 466, illus. [euro]98. A composition of texts and images transmitted mainly on the bottom of ...
Elementa linguae copticae: Grammaire inedite du XVW siecle.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2006; Depuydt, Leo ... Elementa linguae copticae: Grammaire inedite du XVW siecle.By Guillaume Bonjour. Edited by Sydney H. AUFRERE and NATHALIE BOSSON. Cahiers d' orientalisme, vol. 24. Geneva: Patrick Cramer Editeur, 2005. Pp. ci + 190, plates. The history of a science is the science itself, Goethe ...
Edfou VII.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2006; Depuydy, Leo ... Edfou VII. By DIETER KURTH. Die Inschriften des Tempels von Edfu. Abteilung I, Ubersetzungen, vol. 2. Wiesbaden: HARRASSOWITZ VERLAG, 2004. Pp. xviii + 861. [euro]128. The term "Edfou" in the title of the book under review is the common French spelling of Edfu. The reference is ...
Sources on the Alans: A Critical Compilation.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2006; Borjian, Habib ... Sources on the Alans: A Critical Compilation. By Agusti Alemany. Handbook of Oriental Studies, section 8, vol. 5. Leiden: Brill, 2000. Pp. xxi + 463. The history of the Iranian-speaking Scytho-Sarmatian nomads who ruled over the Eurasian steppes for over a millennium concludes ...
Aryas, Aryens et Iraniens en Asie Centrale.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2006; Klein, Jared S. ... Aryas, Aryens et Iraniens en Asie Centrale. GERARD FUSSMAN, JEAN KELLENS, HENRI-PAUL FRANCFORT, AND XAVIER TREMBLAY.College de France, Publications de ITnstitut de Civilisation Indienne, fascicule 72. Paris: de Boccard, 2005. Pp. 346, plates, map. Perhaps the most pernicious ...