The Journal of the American Oriental Society articles

Recent articles from The Journal of the American Oriental Society

The cultic versus the forensic: Judahite and Mesopotamian judicial procedures in the first millennium B.C.E.(Report)
April 1, 2008... Throughout most periods of ancient Near Eastern history, religious rituals frequently played an important role in the resolution of legal disputes that were brought to trial. It appears that judges would sometimes make use of them arbitrarily but often when they felt the available evidence...

The imperative forms of Proto-Semitic and a new perspective on Barth's Law.(Report)
April 1, 2008... 1. INTRODUCTION Over a century ago Jakob Barth suggested, (1) in what has come to be known as Barth's Law, that the quality of the vowel following the consonantal pronominal prefix in the G-stem depends on the thematic vowel of the verbal base, i.e., a dissimilarity between the two...

Indian disciplinary rules and their early Chinese adepts: a buddhist reality.(Report)
April 1, 2008... This study focuses on the various attitudes of Chinese Buddhist masters toward the introduction of Indian disciplinary rules in a Chinese reality, more particularly in the Chinese society of the fifth to the eighth centuries, a period that saw the full development of Chinese monastic...

Notes on the Ahl al-Diwan: the Arab-Egyptian army of the seventh through the ninth centuries C.E.(Report)
April 1, 2008... In his foundational study of caliphal armies, Hugh Kennedy provided a thorough, interpretative framework for the profuse evidence relating to the early Islamic military establishment. (1) Repeatedly, however, he necessarily emphasized the tentative nature of the sources in general, but...

A new terminus ad quem for 'Umar al-Suhrawardi's magnum opus.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2008... Attending to the chronological sequence of an individual author's works is a sine qua non of contemporary literary biography, one of the single most important descriptive elements that the critic should attend to in evaluating the oeuvre of any one writer. It is inconceivable, for example, to...