The Journal of the American Oriental Society articles from April 2007

The Journal of the American Oriental Society archives from April 2007

Singing to god, educating the people: Appayya Diksita and the function of stotras.
April 1, 2007... APPAYYA 100, APPAYYA 500 The writing on the walls of Kalakanthesvarar Temple in Adayapalam, a village near Vellore in the northern Tamil country, celebrates Appayya Diksita (1520-1592), the village's main claim to fame, as a man of...

Beyond the Mao Odes: Shijing reception in early medieval China.
April 1, 2007... In 1 B.C., close to the collapse of the Western Han Dynasty, the Mao [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]. tradition of the ancient Odes (Shi [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]) received a chair at the imperial academy, belatedly following the...

Notions of epistolarity in Liu Xie's Wenxin diaolong.
April 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION References to Liu Xie's [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (ca. 465-ca. 532) (1) Wenxin diaolong [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (ca. 500), the most outstanding work of literary theory in China, are a normative part of any...

Iron Age Jerusalem: temple-palace, capital city.
April 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION The debate over the status of Jerusalem of the United Monarchy has been of major interest to many scholars. (1) Many of these studies focus on the presence or absence of archaeological finds. According to some, during the...

Looking at the other in Gilgamesh.
April 1, 2007... THE TRAPPER'S GAZE One day, across a water-hole, in a wilderness three days' trek from the city, a trapper sees what has not been seen before: a wild man, like a beast--like a god--fallen from heaven, naked, his body rough with matted...

Gilgamesh and the power of narration.
April 1, 2007... Narratives, whether oral stories or forms of historiography and fiction, display ways to make sense of the world and of human experience. (1) Fiction, more specifically, offers the possibility to explore and test alternative values and courses...

A problematic line in a Shamash prayer and Psalm 35:14.
April 1, 2007... In 1912 A. Schollmeyer (1) published transcriptions and translations of a number of Samas texts that had earlier been published by J. A. Craig (2) and C. D. Gray. (3) The text relevant to this article appears on plate IV of Gray's volume, (4)...

Refining Hebrew diachronic phonology.
April 1, 2007... Upon reviewing a recent contribution of mine on the history of Hebrew vocalism (1) with a view to reassessing phonemic likelihoods, I find that the suggested chronology contains more vowel changes and therefore more distinct chronological...

Judah and the Judeans in the Persian Period.
April 1, 2007... Judah and the Judeans in the Persian Period. Edited by ODED LIPSHITS and MANFRED OEMING. Winona Lake, Indiana: EISENBRAUNS, 2006. Pp. xxii + 721, illus. $59.50. The volume under review is a collection of papers originally presented at a...

Temples, Tithes, and Taxes: The Temple and the Economic Life of Ancient Israel.
April 1, 2007... Temples, Tithes, and Taxes: The Temple and the Economic Life of Ancient Israel. By MARTY E. STEVENS. Peabody, Massachusetts: HENDRICKSON PUBLISHERS, 2006. Pp. xi + 209, illus. $24.95 (paper). This book began as a Union Theological Seminary...

Cult and Character: Purification Offerings, Day of Atonement, and Theodicy.
April 1, 2007... Cult and Character: Purification Offerings, Day of Atonement, and Theodicy. By ROY GANE. Winona Lake, Indiana: EISENBRAUNS, 2005. Pp. xxi + 394. $39.50. In this thorough, erudite, and typically coherent monograph, Professor Gane offers a...

The Golden Way: The Hebrew Sonnet during the Renaissance and the Baroque.
April 1, 2007... The Golden Way: The Hebrew Sonnet during the Renaissance and the Baroque. By DVORA BREGMAN. Translated by ANN BRENER. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol. 304. Tempe: ARIZONA CENTER FOR MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES, 2006. Pp. i...

The Stains of Culture: An Ethno-Reading of Karaite Jewish Women.
April 1, 2007... The Stains of Culture: An Ethno-Reading of Karaite Jewish Women. BY RUTH TSOFFAR. Detroit: WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2005. Pp. xv + 245, illus. $27.95 (paper). Stains of Culture focuses upon menstruation in the contemporary Karaite...

Das mandaische Fest der Schalttage: Edition, Ubersetzung and Kommentierung der Handscrift DC 24 Sarh d-paruanaiia.
April 1, 2007... Das mandaische Fest der Schalttage: Edition, Ubersetzung and Kommentierung der Handscrift DC 24 Sarh d-paruanaiia. By BOGDAN BURTEA. Mandaistiche Forschungen, vol. 2. Wiesbaden: HARRAS-SOWITZ VERLAG. 2005. Pp. ix + 246, CD-ROM. [euro]68. ...

Esoteric and Exoteric Aspects in Judeo-Arabic Culture.
April 1, 2007... Esoteric and Exoteric Aspects in Judeo-Arabic Culture. Edited by BENJAMIN H. HARY AND HAGGAI BEN SHAMMAI. Etudes sur le judaism medieval, vol. 33. Leiden: BRILL, 2006. Pp. xi + 338. [euro]90. This volume is an excellent collection of twelve...

Local Power in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia.
April 1, 2007... Local Power in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia. By ANDREA SERI. Studies in Egyptology and the Ancient Near East. London: EQUINOX Publishing Limited, 2006. Pp. xvi + 240, maps. $95. [Distrib. in North America by David Brown Book Co., Oakville, Conn.]...

The Political Correspondence of Esarhaddon.
April 1, 2007... The Political Correspondence of Esarhaddon. BY MIKKO LUUKKO AND GRETA VAN BUYLABRE, State Archives of Assyria, vol. 16. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 2002. Pp. Iv + 221, illus. This excellent new edition completes the State Archives...

Lenguas en Contacto: El testimonio escrito.
April 1, 2007... Lenguas en Contacto: El testimonio escrito. Edited by PEDRO BADENAS DE LA PENA, SOFIA TORALLAS TOVAR, EUGENIO R. LUJAN, AND MARIA ANGELES GALLEGO. Madrid: CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE IN-VESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS, 2004. Pp. xx + 320. [euro]26 (paper)....

Syntactic and Lexico-Semantic Aspects of the Legal Register in Ramesside Royal Decrees.
April 1, 2007... Syntactic and Lexico-Semantic Aspects of the Legal Register in Ramesside Royal Decrees. By ARLETTE DAVID. Gottinger Orientforschungen, IV Series--Egypt, vol. 38. Wiesbaden: HARRASSOWITZ VERLAG, 2006. Pp. vii + 313 [euro] 78 (paper). This...

Pharao und Sport.
April 1, 2007... Pharao und Sport. By WOLFGANG DECKER. Zaberns Bilderbande zur Archaologie. Mainz: VERLAG PHILIPP VON ZABERN, 2006. Pp. 108, illus. [euro]60. Since the mid-1970s, Wolfgang Decker has contributed many articles and books on Egyptian sport,...

Die Ortsnamen Des Richterbuchs in historischer und redaktioneller Perspektive.
April 1, 2007... Die Ortsnamen des Richterbuchs in historischer und redaktioneller perspektive. By ERASMUS GAB. Abhandiungen des Deutschen Palastina-Vereins, vol. 35. Wiesbaden: HARRASSOWITZ VERLAG, 2005. Pp. xii + 683, maps. [euro]98. This encyclopedic...

Gesichter des Orients: 10,000 Jahre Kunst und Kultur aus Jordanien.
April 1, 2007... Gesichter des Orients: 10,000 Jahre Kunst und Kultur aus Jordanien. Edited by BEATE SALJE; NADINE RIEDL; and GUNTHER SCHAURTE Mainz: VERLAG PHILIPP NON ZABERN, 2004. Pp. xvi + 280, illus. [euro]44.90. German scholars have made a steady and...

Seeking Out the Wisdom of the Ancients: Essays Offered to Honor Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday.
April 1, 2007... Seeking Out the Wisdom of the Ancients: Essays Offered to Honor Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Edited by RONALD L. TROXEL, KELVIN G. FRIEBEL, and DENNIS R. MAGARY. Winona Lake, Indiana: EISENBRAUNS, 2005. Pp. xxviii...

The Greek Wars: The Failure of Persia.
April 1, 2007... The Greek Wars: The Failure of Persia. By GEORGE CAWKWELL. Oxford: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2005. Pp. viii + 316. $115. Cawkwell's book is another welcome addition to the Persian perspective on the Greek source material for Achaemenid...

Schrift und Sprache der 4. Dynastie.
April 1, 2007... Schrift und Sprache der 4. Dynastie. By SIMON D. SCHWEITZER. MENES: Studien zur Kultur und Sprache der agyptischen Fruzeit und des Alten Reiches, vol. 3. Wiesbaden: HARRASSOWITZ VERLAG, 2005. Pp. xi + 650. [euro]128. While studies on all...

Sumerian Lexicon: A Dictionary Guide to the Ancient Sumerian Language.
April 1, 2007... Sumerian Lexicon: A Dictionary Guide to the Ancient Sumerian Language. By JOHN ALAN HALLORAN. Los Angeles: LOGOGRAM PUBLISHING, 2006. Pp. xiv + 318. $110 (cloth); $79 (paper). [Distrib. by David Brown Book Co., Oakville, Ct.] The author...

Studien Zur Ugaritischen Lexikographie, Mit Kulturund Religionsgeschichtlichen Parallelen.
April 1, 2007... Studien zur ugaritischen Lexikographie, mit kulturund religionsgeschichtlichen Parallelen: Beamte, Gotternamen, Gotterepitheta, Kultbegriffe, Metalle, Tiere, Verbalbegriffe. Neue vergleichbare Inschriften. By KJELL AARTUN. Teil II, A-B. 2 vols....