The Journal of the American Oriental Society articles from April 2000

The Journal of the American Oriental Society archives from April 2000

A UNIQUE TALMUDIC ARAMAIC INCANTATION BOWL.
April 1, 2000... Generally, incantation bowls are written in a formal standardized literary Eastern Aramaic or, less frequently, in a "koine" of Southern Babylonian Aramaic. The present article treats a magic bowl that is written in an idiom that is related to...

FROM BIDA TO SUNNA: THE WILAYA OF ALI IN THE SHII ADHAN.
April 1, 2000... Although the wilaya of [[blank].sup.[subset]]Ali b. AN Talib--the attestation of his spiritual and temporal authority-- has always been professed by the [Shi.sup.[subset] a and has appeared in their ritual and other practices (such as coinage)...

TOGA:NDRA NAME KA:PPA:TTANO: MAY THE GODS PROTECT US A CONTRIBUTION TO NILGIRI RELIGIOUS INFRASTRUCTURE.
April 1, 2000... An Irula informant comments on the tribe's religious observances. Text in Irula, with translation and extended commentary by Kamil Zvelebil. INTRODUCTION IRULA RELIGION [1] SEEMS TO BE organized in a complex hierarchical structure...

BASHO AND THE MASTERY OF POETIC SPACE IN OKU NO HOSOMICHI.(Critical Essay)
April 1, 2000... I argued, in an earlier article in this journal (JAOS 117.1) that in his travel writings Matsuo Basho reveals himself to be a participant in the process by which a central cultural regime makes claims on territory--poetic, geographical, and...

IN PRAISE OF ISTAR.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The divine dyad Inanna/Istar, analyzed according to its two main divine personalities, represents a major figure of the Mesopotamian pantheon from earliest times and one which enjoyed a widespread acceptance in various forms in the ancient Near...

ERNST LEUMANN REVISITED.
April 1, 2000... Ernst Leumann's many published works and his huge handwritten "Nachlass" have been largely forgotten. Yet, recently, in the course of five years, four volumes have been devoted to the author and his contributions, mainly to the study of...

LOGIC, LANGUAGE, AND GRAMMAR IN EARLY CHINA.
April 1, 2000... In examining what he calls the "logical features" and "logical concepts" of the Classical Chinese language Christoph Harbsmeier has shown in this volume of Science and Civilisation in China that "logic is logic" and that, like mathematics,...

Some Origins of Kota -j(-).
April 1, 2000... Murray Emeneau here continues his inquiries into the phonological history of the lesser-known Dravidian languages. 1. A statement of conditioned developments of [[blank].sup.*]1 in the Dravidian language Kota has not yet been undertaken...

Addendum to JAOS 119.1.
April 1, 2000... Interpretation and paraphrase of Vakyapadiya 2.7-8 clarified. My paraphrase of Vakyapadiya 2.7-8 (JAOS 119: 98) requires an additional comment in view of the text cited in my note 58. The paraphrase given assumes the reading...

Ancient Egypt & Searching for Ancient Egupt.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Ancient Egypt. Edited by DAVID P. SILVERMAN. New York: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1997. Pp. 256, illustrations. $39.95. Searching for Ancient Egypt: Art, Architecture, and Artifacts from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology...

The Tale of Sinuhe and other Ancient Egyptian Poems, 1940-1640 B.C.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Tale of Sinuhe and other Ancient Egyptian Poems, 1940- 1640 B.C. Translated by R. B. PARKINSON, with introduction and notes. Oxford: CLARENDON PRESS, 1997. Pp. xiv + 317. This is R. B. Parkinson's second volume of translations of...

Les Ostraca hieratiques inedits de la Bibliotheque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Les Ostraca hieratiques inedits de la Bibliotheque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg. By YVAN KOENIG. Documents de fouilles de l'IFAO, vol. 33. Cairo: INSTITUT FRANCAIS D'ARCHEOLOGIE ORIENTALE, 1997. Pp. 21, 135 plates. This volume...

The Hyksos: New Historical and Archaeological Perspectives.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Hyksos: New Historical and Archaeological Perspectives. Edited by ELIEZER D. OREN, University Museum Monographs, vol. 96. University Symposium Series, vol. 8. Philadelphia: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM, 1997. Pp. xxvi + 434, maps,...

Ancient Egypt and the Old Testament.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Ancient Egypt and the Old Testament. By JOHN D. CURRID. Foreword by Kenneth A. Kitchen. Grand Rapids, Mich.: BAKER BOOKS, 1997. Pp. 269, illustrations, maps. $21.99. With this volume, a rather disparate collection of studies on various...

Mesopotamien: Spaturuk-Zeit und frauhdynastische Zeit.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Mesopotamien: Spaturuk-Zeit und frauhdynastische Zeit. By JOSEF BAUER, ROBERT K. ENGLUND, and MANFRED KREBERNIK. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, vol. 160:1; Annaherungen, vol. 1. Gottingen: VANDENHOECK & RUPRECHT, 1998. Pp. 627, maps,...

Ur III Period (2112-2004 BC).(Review)
April 1, 2000... Ur III Period (2112-2004 BC). By DOUGLAS R. FRAYNE. The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, Early Periods, vol. 3.2. Toronto: UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS, 1997. Pp. xliv + 489. [pound]150, $200. Au moment de rendre compte du nouveau livre de...

Wohnen im alten Orient: Eine Untersuchung zur Verwendung von Raumen.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Wohnen im alten Orient: Eine Untersuchung zur Verwendung von Raumen in altorientalischen Wohnhausern. By MARIA KRAFELD-DAUGHERTY. Altertumskunde des Vorderen Orients, vol. 3. Munster Ugarit-Verlag, 1994. Pp. x + 401 + 41 plates. This is a...

The Halaf Period in Northern Mesopotamia.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Halaf Period in Northern Mesopotamia. By ISMAIL HIJARA. EDUBBA, vol. 6. London: NABU PUBLICATIONS, 1997. Pp. 159, maps, 101 figures, 94 plates. Tell es-Sawwan: The Architecture of the Sixth Millennium B. C. By DONNY GEORGE YOUKANA....

Old Babylonian Texts from Chagar Bazar.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Old Babylonian Texts from Chagar Bazar. By PHILIPPE TALON. Akkadica Supplementum, vol. 10. Brussels: FONDATION ASSYRIOLOGIQUE GEORGES-DOSSIN, 1997. Pp. 155, 31 plates. Le site de Chagar Bazar se trouve dans le triangle du Habur, dans la...

Babylonian Planetary Omens, part three.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Babylonian Planetary Omens, part three. By ERICA REINER, with DAVID PINGREE. Cuneiform Monographs, vol. 11. Groningen: STYX PUBLICATIONS, 1998. Pp. viii + 290. HEI 185. This is the very welcome third volume in the ongoing edition of...

Die Theologie der Bilder: Herstellung und Einweihung von Kultbildern in Mesopotamien und die alttestamentliche Bilderpolemik.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Die Theologie der Bilder: Herstellung und Einweihung von Kultbildern in Mesopotamien und die alttestamentliche Bilderpolemik. By ANGELIKA BERLEJUNG. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, vol. 162. Gottingen: VANDENHOECK & RUPRECHT, 1998. Pp. xii + 547,...

Ancient Ararat: A Handbook of Urartian Studies. Anatolian and Caucasian Studies.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Ancient Ararat: A Handbook of Urartian Studies. Anatolian and Caucasian Studies. By PAUL E. ZIMANSKY. Delmar, N.Y.: CARAVAN Books, 1998. Pp. x + 332, maps. Illus. $75. The book under review is a bibliographical survey of the archaeology...

Geschichte des hethitischen Reiches.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Geschichte des hethitischen Reiches. By HORST KLENGEL, with the assistance of FIORELLA IMPARATI, VOLKERT HAAS, and THEO P. J. VAN DEN HOUT. Handbuch der Orientalistik, vol. 1.34. Leiden: E. J. BRILL, 1999. Pp. xv + 428, 63 plates. $152. ...

Stories in Scripture and Inscriptions: Comparative Studies on Narratives in Northwest Semitic Inscriptions and the Hebrew Bible.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Stories in Scripture and Inscriptions: Comparative Studies on Narratives in Northwest Semitic Inscriptions and the Hebrew Bible. By SIMON B. PARKER. New York: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1997. Pp. viii + 195. $39.95. The Hebrew Bible is a...

The Anterior Construction in Classical Hebrew.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Anterior Construction in Classical Hebrew. By ZIONY ZEVIT. Society of Biblical Literature Monograph Series, vol. 50. Atlanta: SCHOLARS PRESS, 1998. Pp. Xiii + 94. $24.95. This short monograph, which comprises a mere seventy-two pages (a...

Penitential Prayer in Second Temple Judaism: The Development of a Religious Institution.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Penitential Prayer in Second Temple Judaism: The Development of a Religious Institution. By RODNEY ALAN WERLINE. SBL, Early Judaism and Its Literature, vol. 13. Atlanta: SCHOLARS PRESS, 1998. Pp. xi + 238. $39.95. This revised doctoral...

Scribes and Schools: The Canonization of the Hebrew Scriptures.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Scribes and Schools: The Canonization of the Hebrew Scriptures. By PHILIP R. DAVIES. Library of Ancient Israel. Louisville, Ky.: WESTMINSTER/JOHN KNOX PRESS, 1998. Pp. xi + 219. $24. The subject of canon as it relates to the Hebrew...

The Text of Genesis 1-11: Textual Studies and Critical Edition.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Text of Genesis 1-11: Textual Studies and Critical Edition. By RONALD S. HENDEL. New York: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1998. Pp. xv + 168. $29.95. This book is presented as a sample of what should go into a critical edition of the Hebrew...

Studies in the Book of Jubilees.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Studies in the Book of Jubilees. Edited by MATTHIAS ALBANI, JORG FREY, and ARMIN LANGE. Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum, vol. 65. Tubingen: J.C.B. MOHR (PAUL SIEBECK), 1997. Pp. ix + 344. DM 228. This handsome volume, accurately...

Der Kaiser reist ins Heilige Land: Die Palastinareise Wilhelms II.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Der Kaiser reist ins Heilige Land: Die Palastinareise Wilhelms II. 1898. By ALEX CARMEL and EJAL JAKOB EISLER. Stuttgart: VERLAG W. KOHLHAMMER, 1999. Pp. 187 [German] + 11 [Hebrew]. Illustrated. DM 79. In 1898 Kaiser Wilhelm II traveled to...

A Gateway to Hell, A Gateway to Paradise: The North African Response to the Arab Conquest.(Review)
April 1, 2000... A Gateway to Hell, A Gateway to Paradise: The North African Response to the Arab Conquest. By ELIZABETH SAVAGE. Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, vol. 7. Princeton: DARWIN PRESS, 1997. Pp. x + 206. $29.95. Unlike the native...

The Fatimid Armenians: Cultural and Political Interaction in the Near East.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Fatimid Armenians: Cultural and Political Interaction in the Near East. By SETA B. DADOYAN. Leiden: E. J. BRILL, 1997. Pp. viii + 214. HFI 115, $68. Commencing with the wazirate of the Armenian Badr al-Jamali in the middle of the reign...

Writing Signs: The Fatimid Public Text & Fatimid Art at the Victoria and Albert Museums.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Writing Signs: The Fatimid Public Text. By IRENE A. BIERMAN. Berkeley: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 1998. Pp. xvi + 124, illustrations and maps. $50 (cloth); $20 (paper). Fatimid Art at the Victoria and Albert Museums. By ANNA CONTADINI....

Hadji Bektach, un mythe et ses avatars: Genese et evolution du soufisme populaire en Turquie & Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East & Alevi Identity.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Hadji Bektach, un mythe et ses avatars: Genese et evolution du soufisme populaire en Turquie. By IRENE MELIKOFF. Leiden: E. J. BRILL, 1998. Pp. xxvi + 317. Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East: Collected Papers of the...

Women in the Ottoman Empire: Middle Eastern Women in the Early Modern Era.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Women in the Ottoman Empire: Middle Eastern Women in the Early Modern Era. Edited by MADELINE C. ZILFI. The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage: Politics, Society and Economy, vol. 10. Leiden: E. J. BRILL, 1997. Pp. xi + 333, 4 illustrations....

Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi. By FATEMEH KESHAVARZ. Columbia: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS, 1998. Pp. x + 194. $29.95. English translations of Jalal-al-Din Rumi's (d. 1273) mystical Persian poems are now...

Alte Vorbilder des Sufitums & Weltverzicht.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Alte Vorbilder des Sufitums, Pt. 1: Scheiche des Westens; Pt. 2: Scheiche des Ostens. By RICHARD GRAMLICH. Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur. Veroffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, Mainz, vol. 42. Wiesbaden: HARRASSOWITZ,...

Kusyar Ibn Labban's Introduction to Astrology.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Kusyar Ibn Labban's Introduction to Astrology. Edited and translated by MICHIO YANO. Studia Culturae Islamicae, vol. 62. Tokyo: INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF LANGUAGES AND CULTURES OF ASIA AND AFRICA, 1997. Pp. xxviii + 319. Kushyar ibn...

Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science. Edited by ROSHDI RASHED, in collaboration with REGIS MORELON. Three volumes. New York: ROUTLEDGE, 1996. Pp. xiv + 1105. $250. These three volumes contain articles on a wide range of topics,...

The Verb in Literary and Colloquial Arabic.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Verb in Literary and Colloquial Arabic. By MARTINE CUVALAY-HAAK. Berlin: MOUTON DE GRUYTER, 1997. Pp. xx + 278. This book was the author's doctoral dissertation, written under the supervision of Manfred Woidich at the University of...

Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land. By TIM MACKINTOSH-SMITH. London: JOHN MURRAY, 1998. Pp. xi + 280, maps. $35. Yemen is virtually unparalleled in the Arab world as a museum of Arabic dialects. The author, a Veteran of some thirteen...

Islamic Maritime Law: An Introduction.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Islamic Maritime Law: An Introduction By HASSAN S. KHALILIEH. Leiden: E. J. BRILL, 1998. Pp. xxi + 202, bibliography, glossary, index. HFl, 116. $68. To say that the maritime world of Islam has received little scholarly attention is...

Frankish Rural Settlement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Frankish Rural Settlement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. BY RONNIE ELLENBLUM. Cambridge: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1998. Pp. xvii + 321, maps, tables, illustrations. $59.95. To echo his own description of this project--investigating...

Devi, The Great Goddess: Female Divinity in South Asian Art.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Devi, The Great Goddess: Female Divinity in South Asian Art. By VIDYA DEHEJIA, with contributions by twelve others. Washington, D.C.: ARTHUR M. SACKLER GALLERY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1999, in association with Mapin Publishing, Ahmedabad, and...

Die Dschungelkonige: Ethnohistorische Aspekte von Politik und Ritual in Sudorissal/Indien.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Die Dschungelkonige: Ethnohistorische Aspekte von Politik und Ritual in Sudorissal/Indien. By BURKHARD SCHNEPEL. Beitritge zur sudasienforschung, vol. 177. Stuttgart: FRANZ STEINER VERLAG, 1997. Pp. viii + 343, list of illustrations,...

The Salibhadra-Dhanna-Carita (The Tale of the Quest for Ultimate Release by Salibhadra and Dhanna): A Work in Old Gujarati Critically Edited and Translated, with a Grammatical Analysis and Glossary.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Salibhadra-Dhanna-Carita (The Tale of the Quest for Ultimate Release by Salibhadra and Dhanna): A Work in Old Gujarati Critically Edited and Translated, with a Grammatical Analysis and Glossary. By ERNEST BENDER [+]. American Oriental...

Manatungacarya aur unke Stotra & Anusandhan.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Manatungacarya aur unke Stotra. By MADHUSDAN DHANKI and JITENDRA SAH [M. A. DHAKY and JITENDRA SHAH]. Sri Svetambar Murtipujak Jain Bording Granthamala, vol. 13. Ahmedabad: SHARADABEN CHIMANBHAT EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE, 1997. Pp. 11 +...

Classics of Modern South Asian Literature.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Classics of Modern South Asian Literature. Edited by RUPERT SNELL and I. M. P. RAESIDE. Khoj: A Series of Modern South Asian Studies, vol. 6. Wiesbaden: HARRASSOWITZ VERLAG, 1998. Pp. viii + 257. DM 138. In the special June 23-June 30,...

The Calf Became an Orphan: A Study in Contemporary Kannada Fiction.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Calf Became an Orphan: A Study in Contemporary Kannada Fiction. By ROBERT J. ZYDENBOS, Publications du Departement d'indologie, hors serie. Pondichery: INSTITUT FRANCAIS De PONDICHERY and ECOLE FRANCAISE D'EXTREME-ORIENT, 1996. Pp. 301. ...

Tipu Sultan's Search for Legitimacy: Islam and Kingship in a Hindu Domain.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Tipu Sultan's Search for Legitimacy: Islam and Kingship in a Hindu Domain. By KATE BRITTLEBANK. Delhi: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1997. Pp. xxii + 184. Rs 450. It is the author's contention that Tipu Sultan was the product of a syncretic...

Classical Javanese Dance: The Surakarta Tradition and its Terminology.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Classical Javanese Dance: The Surakarta Tradition and its Terminology. By CLARA BRAKEL-PAPENHUYZEN. Leiden: KITLV PRESS, 1995. Pp. vii-xii + 252 and plates. HFl 60. Upon first witnessing an instance of the spectacle denoted by the title of...

Der Indische Ozean in historischer Perspektive.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Der Indische Ozean in historischer Perspektive. Edited by STEPHAN CONERMANN. Asien und Afrika, Beitrage des Zentrums fur asiatische und afrikanische Studien (ZAAS) der Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel, vol. I. Hamburg: E. B.-VERLAG,...

The Camel's Load in Life and Death: Iconography and Ideology of Chinese Pottery Figurines from Han to Tang and their Relevance to Trade along the Silk Routes.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Camel's Load in Life and Death: Iconography and Ideology of Chinese Pottery Figurines from Han to Tang and their Relevance to Trade along the Silk Routes. By ELFRIEDE REGINA KNAUER. Zurich: AKANTHUS, 1998. Pp. 159 + illus., maps. $38...

Appropriation and Representation: Feng Menglong and the Chinese Vernacular Story.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Appropriation and Representation: Feng Menglong and the Chinese Vernacular Story. By SHUHUI YANG. Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies, vol. 79. Ann Arbor: CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, 1998. Pp. 187. $50. When Feng...

The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue. By SARAH ALLAN. SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture. Albany: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, 1997. Pp. xiv + 181 + illus. $53.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). Sarah Allan, in The Way of Water...

Baihua: Zum Problem der Verschriftung gesprochener Sprache im Chinesischen, dargestelit anhand morphologischer Merkmale in den bianwen aus Dunhuang.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Baihua: Zum Problem der Verschriftung gesprochener Sprache im Chinesischen, dargestelit anhand morphologischer Merkmale in den bianwen aus Dunhuang. By THOMAS ZIMMER. Monumenta Serica Monograph Series, vol. 40. Nettetal: STEYLER VERLAG, 1999....

Chinese Popular Culture and Ming Chantefables.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Chinese Popular Culture and Ming Chantefables. By ANNE E. MCLAREN. Sinica Leidensia, vol. 41. Leiden: E. J. BRILL, 1998. Pp. 340 + illus. $103.75. Since the publication of Robert Redfield's classic anthropological study Peasant Society and...