The Journal of the American Oriental Society articles from January 2001

The Journal of the American Oriental Society archives from January 2001

TEXTUAL CRITICISM OF THE KORAN.
January 1, 2001... The presidential address of 2000, in which the author suggests emendations and/or explanations of seven proper names in the Koran, which have not been satisfactorily identified. These are: Tuwan, al-Jibt, Azar, Idris, [Uzayr.[subset]], al-Rass,...

BUKHARI AND EARLY HADITH CRITICISM.
January 1, 2001... Norman Calder has questioned the attribution of al-Ta'rikh al-kabir to al-Bukhari (d. 256/870). Quotations from Ibn Abi Hatim al-Razi and al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, together with comparisons among the rijal works of Bukhari, suggest that al Ta'rikh...

MARTYRDOM AND THE EXECUTION OF GURU ARJAN IN EARLY SIKH SOURCES.
January 1, 2001... Popular Sikh histories of today are united in their claim that the execution in 1606 of the fifth Sikh Master, Guru Arjan has always been understood as an heroic martyrdom. Yet the fact that this event is not mentioned either in the Bachitar...

RABIES AND RABID DOGS IN SUMERIAN AND AKKADIAN LITERATURE.
January 1, 2001... An analysis of the symptoms of a disease described in incantations against the bite of a dog leads to its identification with rabies or hydrophobia. A particular type of dog, called ur-[mu.sub.2]-da or ur-idim in Sumerian literature, is equated...

WHAT'S IN A NAME? ON THE APPELLATIVE "SHU" IN EARLY MEDIEVAL CHINESE HISTORIOGRAPHY.
January 1, 2001... Drawing on contemporary sources such as edicts, memorials, and epistles quoted by Chen Shou (233-97) in his Sanguo zhi, this paper examines the various names applied to Liu Bei's (161-223) state--known in later history as "shu" or "Shu...

HUANG T'ING-CHIEN'S "INCENSE OF AWARENESS": POEMS OF EXCHANGE, POEMS OF ENLIGHTENMENT.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2001... The writing of poems in association with objects that were exchanged as gifts became a common practice in eleventh-century China. Two sets of poems by Huang T'ing-chien written in 1086 in response to gifts of incense provide an index of his...

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING: KUMARILA, SANTARAKSITA, AND DHARMAKIRTI ON THE COGNITION OF NON-BEING.(Nichts bleibt nichts: Die Buddhistische Zuruckweisung von Kumarila's Abhavapramana; Ubersetzung und Interpretation von Santaraksita's Tattvasangraha vv. 1647-1690 mit Kamalasila's Tattvasangrahapajika sowie Ansatze und Arbeitshypothese zur Geschichte negativer Erkenntnis in der indischen Philosophie)
January 1, 2001... Birgit Kellner's translation and study of the Abhavavicara section of Santaraksita's Tattvasangraha, while historically sophisticated and philologically sound, ignores the broader philosophical significance of the problem of the cognition of...

Diverse Indo-Iranian Etymological Notes.
January 1, 2001... INDO-ARYAN DEVERBAL AGENTIVES IN I-E *-EN- I have recently discussed the sparse attestation of the Indo-European class of nomina agentis derived in [-en-.sup.*] from verbal bases, [1] a class which is poorly represented in the handbooks,...

Isdi mati, The Foundations Of The Earth?(term in recently found fragment of the Gilgamesh epic)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The fragment Rm 956, recently identified as the opening eight lines of the Gilgamesh epic, restores only one word previously unknown: isdi in the second hemistich of the first verse. This term, taken in apposition to nagba in the first...

Legal Sanctions Imposed on Parents in Old Babylonian Legal Sources.
January 1, 2001... One may conclude from an analysis of Old Babylonian legal sources that a parent was not permitted to cancel, without lawful cause, the legal tie between himself and his natural or adopted child by means of the declaration, "you are not my son,"...

Freethinkers of Medieval Islam: Ibn al-Rawandi, Abu Bakr al-Razi, and their Impact on Islamic Thought.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Freethinkers of Medieval Islam: Ibn al-Rawandi, Abu Bakr al-Razi, and their Impact on Islamic Thought. By SARAH STROUMSA. Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science, vol. 35 Leiden: BRILL, 1999. Pp. xii + 261. HFI 135, $79.50. In this...

State and Rural Society in Medieval Islam: Sultans, [Muqta.sup.[subset]]s and Fallahun.(Review)
January 1, 2001... State and Rural Society in Medieval Islam: Sultans, [Muqta.sup.[subset]]s and Fallahun. By SATO TSUGITAKA. Leiden: BRILL, 1997. Pp. ix + 337. $110. This new volume represents, to the best of my knowledge, the first comprehensive study of...

War and Society in the Eastern Mediterranean, 7th-15th Centuries.(Review)
January 1, 2001... War and Society in the Eastern Mediterranean, 7th-15th Centuries. Edited by YAACOV LEV. The Medieval Mediterranean: Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400-1453, vol. 9. Leiden: BRILL, 1997. Pp. 410. Yaacov Lev has assembled fourteen articles...

All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, His Army and the Making of Modern Egypt.(Review)
January 1, 2001... All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, His Army and the Making of Modern Egypt. By KHALED FAHMY. Cambridge: CAMBRIDGE UNIV. PRESS, 1997. Pp. xvii + 334. All the Pasha's Men is one of the few scholarly texts that succeed in gracefully weaving...

The Revolution of 1908 in Turkey.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Revolution of 1908 in Turkey. By AYKUT KANSU. Leiden: BRILL, 1997. Pp. xi + 341. This book sets out "to criticise the conventional approaches in writing modem Turkish history" with particular reference to the 1908 revolution, which the...

Making Big Money in 1600: The Life and Times of [Isma.sup.[subset]]il Abu Taqiyya, Egyptian Merchant.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Making Big Money in 1600: The Life and Times of [Isma.sup.[subset]]il Abu Taqiyya, Egyptian Merchant. By NELLY HANNA. Syracuse, N.Y.: SYRACUSE UNIV. PRESS, 1998. Pp. xi + 219. $44.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Although [Isma.sup.[subset]]il...

Islamic Law and Culrure, 1600-1840.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Islamic Law and Culrure, 1600-1840. By HAIM GERBER. Studies in Islamic Law and Society, vol. 9. Leiden: BRILL, 1999. Pp. 156. Its grand title notwithstanding, this work is primarily an analysis of two collections of Hanafi legal opinions,...

Contingency in a Sacred Law: Legal and Ethical Norms in the Muslim Fiqh.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Contingency in a Sacred Law: Legal and Ethical Norms in the Muslim Fiqh. By BABER JOHANSEN. Studies in Islamic Law and Society, vol. 7. Leiden: BRILL, 1999. Pp. xiii + 521. Nig. 246.00/US $144.50. Although largely a collection of previously...

Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography: Harun al-Rashid and the Narrative of the [Abbasid.sup.[subset]] Caliphate.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography: Harun al-Rashid and the Narrative of the [Abbasid.sup.[subset]] Caliphate. By TAYEB EL-HIBRI. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. Cambridge: CAMBRIDGE UNIV. PRESS, 1999. Pp. x + 236. $64.95. ...

The Fortress of Faith: The Attitude towards Muslims in Fifteenth Century Spain.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Fortress of Faith: The Attitude towards Muslims in Fifteenth Century Spain. By ANA ECHEVARRIA. Medieval Iberian Peninsula, Texts and Studies, vol. 12. Leiden: BRILL, 1999. Pp. viii + 254. NIg. 175.OO/US $103. In slightly more than a...

Muntaz[a.sup.[subset]] al-akhbar fi akhbar al-d[u.sup.[subset]]at al-akhyar (The History of the Ism[a.sup.[subset]]ili Tayyibi d[a.sup.[subset]]wa up to the D[a.sup.[contains]]udi-Sulaymani Schism).(Review)
January 1, 2001... Muntaz[a.sup.[subset]] al-akhbar fi akhbar al-d[u.sup.[subset]]at al-akhyar (The History of the Ism[a.sup.[subset]]ili Tayyibi d[a.sup.[subset]]wa up to the D[a.sup.[contains]]udi-Sulaymani Schism), by Qutb al-Din Sulaymani Burhanpuri. Edited...

Im Tod gewinnt der Mensch sein Selbst: Das Phanomen des Todes in asiatischer und abendlandischer Religionstradition; Arbeitsdokumentation eines Symposions.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Im Tod gewinnt der Mensch sein Selbst: Das Phanomen des Todes in asiatischer und abendlandischer Religionstradition; Arbeitsdokumentation eines Symposions. Edited by GERHARD OBERHAMMER. Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist....

Indian Semantic Analysis: The nirvacana Tradition.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Indian Semantic Analysis: The nirvacana Tradition. By EIVIND KAHRS. University of Cambridge Oriental Publications, vol. 55. Cambridge: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1998. Pp. xv + 302. $69.95. Kahrs presents the first major contribution to...

Changing Patterns of Family and Kinship in South Asia.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Changing Patterns of Family and Kinship in South Asia. Edited by AsKo PARPOLA and SIRPA TENHUNEN. Studia Orientalia, vol. 84. Helsinki: FINNISH ORIENTAL SOCIETY, 1998. Pp. vii + 314, illustrations (paper). This volume is based on the...

Paths to Conflagration: Fifty Years of Diplomacy and Warfare in Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam, 1778-1828.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Paths to Conflagration: Fifty Years of Diplomacy and Warfare in Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam, 1778-1828. By MAYOURY NGAOSYVATHN and PHEUIPHANH NGAOSYVATHN. Ithaca, N.Y.: CORNELL UNIVERSITY SOUTHEAST ASIA PROGRAM, 1998. Pp. 270. With this...

Elaborations on Emptiness: Uses of the Heart Sutra.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Elaborations on Emptiness: Uses of the Heart Sutra. By DONALD S. LOPEZ, JR. Princeton, N.J.: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1996. Pp. xii + 265. $15.95 (paper). In the early 1970s, Edward Conze, that prolific and revered scholar of the...

Tibetan.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Tibetan. By PHILIP DENWOOD. London Oriental and African Language Library, vol. 3. Philadelphia: JOHN BENJAMINS, 1999. Pp. xviii + 372. $99. Anyonc interested in demotic Tibetan will encounter serious problems in this new monograph, not the...

Mishnah and Tosefta: A Synoptic Comparison of the Tractates Berakhaot and Shebiit.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Mishnah and Tosefta: A Synoptic Comparison of the Tractates Berakhaot and Shebiit. By ALBERDINA HOUTMAN. Texte und Studien zum Antiken Judentum, vol. 59. Tubingen: J. C. B. MOHR (PAUL SIEBECK). 1997. Pp. xv + 255, illustrations. DM 198. ...

Syntax and Semantics: Studies in Biblical and Modern Hebrew.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Syntax and Semantics: Studies in Biblical and Modern Hebrew. By ELIEZER RUBINSTEIN Texts and Studies in the Hebrew Language and Related Subjects, vol. 9. Tel-Aviv: THE CHAIM ROSENBERG SCHOOL OF JEWISH STUDIES, 1998. Pp. xvi + 287 + 59. ...

Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography. By WAYNE HOROWITZ. Mesopotamian Civilizations, vol. 8. Winona Lake, Ind.: EISENBRAUNS, 1998. Pp. xiv + 410, illus., 10 plts. $52.50. The series "Mesopotamian Civilizations" has made a substantial contribution...

The Bureaucracy of Shuruppak: Administrative Centres, Central Offices, Intermediate Structures and Hierarchies in the Economic Documentation of Fara.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Bureaucracy of Shuruppak: Administrative Centres, Central Offices, Intermediate Structures and Hierarchies in the Economic Documentation of Fara. By GIUSEPPE VISICATO. Abhandlungen zur Literatur Alt-Syrien-Palastinas und Mesopotamiens, vol....

Ancient Egyptian Science: A Source Book, vol. 3: Ancient Egyptian Mathematics.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Ancient Egyptian Science: A Source Book, vol. 3: Ancient Egyptian Mathematics. By MARSHALL CLAGETT, Philadelphia: AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 1999. Pp. x + 462, illustrations. $30. This work, the third in a series of detailed but basic...

Proche-Orient ancien; Temps vecu, temps pense: Actes de la Table-Ronde du 15 novembre 1997 organisee par l'URA 1062 [much less than]Etudes Semitiques.[much greater than].(Review)
January 1, 2001... Proche-Orient ancien; Temps vecu, temps pense: Actes de la Table-Ronde du 15 novembre 1997 organisee par l'URA 1062 [much less than]Etudes Semitiques.[much greater than] Edited by FRANCOISE BRIQUEL-CHATONNET and HELENE LOZACHMEUR. Antiquites...

Das Goldland der Pharaonen: Die Entdeckung von Berenike Pancrisia.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Das Goldland der Pharaonen: Die Entdeckung von Berenike Pancrisia. By A. and A. CASTIGLIONI, J. VERCOUTTER, et al. Mainz: PHILIPP VON ZABERN, 1998. This volume, translated from Italian, presents the results of five expeditions to the...

Ethnicity and Identity in Ancient Israel: Prolegomena to the Study of Ethnic Sentiments and Their Expressions in the Hebrew Bible.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Ethnicity and Identity in Ancient Israel: Prolegomena to the Study of Ethnic Sentiments and Their Expressions in the Hebrew Bible. By KENTON L. SPARKS. Winona Lake, Ind.: EISENBRAUNS, 1998. Pp. xiv + 344. $37.50. This book is the outgrowth...

From Epic to Canon: History and Literature in Ancient Israel.(Review)
January 1, 2001... From Epic to Canon: History and Literature in Ancient Israel. By FRANK MOORE CROSS. Baltimore: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1998. Pp. xv + 262. $45. Frank Moore Cross is a name to conjure with in modem biblical scholarship. The quality,...

Die neuassyrischen Privatrechtsurkunden als Quelle fur Mensch und Umwelt.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Die neuassyrischen Privatrechtsurkunden als Quelle fur Mensch und Umwelt. By KAREN RADNER. State Archives of Assyria Studies, vol. 6. Helsinki: HELSINKI UNIVERSITY PRESS. 1997. Pp. xlii + 428. $44.50. When C. H. W. Johns in 1898 published...

Tablettes cuneiformes de Tello au Musee d'Istanbul datant de l'epoque de la [III.sup.e] dynastie d'Ur.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Tablettes cuneiformes de Tello au Musee d'Istanbul datant de l'epoque de la [III.sup.e] dynastie d'Ur. By BERTRAND LAFONT and FATMA YILDIZ. Publications de l'Institut historique-archeologique neerlandais de Stamboul, vol. 77. Leiden:...

Drinking in Ancient Societies; History and Culture of Drinks in the Ancient Near East: Papers of a Symposiwn held in Rome, May 17-19, 1990.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Drinking in Ancient Societies; History and Culture of Drinks in the Ancient Near East: Papers of a Symposiwn held in Rome, May 17-19, 1990. Edited by LUCIO MILANO. History of the Ancient Near East: Studies, vol. 6. Padua: SRI, 1994. Pp. xvi +...

Ein vergoldeter Silberbecher der Zeit Assurbanipals im Miho Museum: Historische Darstellungen des 7. Jahrhunderts v. Chr.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Ein vergoldeter Silberbecher der Zeit Assurbanipals im Miho Museum: Historische Darstellungen des 7. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. By ERIKA BLEIBTREU Archiv fur Orientforschung, Beiheft 28. Vienna: SELBSTVERLAG DES INSTITUTS FUR ORIENTALISTIK DER...

Bible and the Ethics of Reading.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Bible and the Ethics of Reading. Edited by D. N. FEWELL and G. A. PHILLIPS. Semeia, vol. 77. Atlanta: SCHOLARS PRESS, 1997. This Semeia volume mirrors a new scholarly tendency currently spreading among many biblical critics. The new...

The Semitic Languages. Routledge Language Family Descriptions.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Semitic Languages. Routledge Language Family Descriptions. Edited by ROBERT HETZRON. New York: ROUTLEDGE, 1997. Pp. xx + 572, maps. $200. Robert Hetzron was the most influential Semitist of the last three or four decades. The editor...

Psalm 119: The Exaltation of Torah.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Psalm 119: The Exaltation of Torah. By DAVID NOEL FREEDMAN, with Jeffrey C. Geoghehan and Andrew Welch. Biblical and Judaic Studies from the University of California, San Diego, vol. 6. Winona Lake, Ind.: EISENBRAUNS, 1999. Pp. vii + 94....

Ameliorative Satire and the Seventeenth-Century Chinese Novel: Xingshi yinyuan zhuan--Marriage as Retribution, Awakening the World.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Ameliorative Satire and the Seventeenth-Century Chinese Novel: Xingshi yinyuan zhuan--Marriage as Retribution, Awakening the World. By YENNA Wu. Chinese Studies, vol. 9. Lewiston, N.Y.: EDWIN MELLEN PRESS, 1999. Pp. 407. $109.95. This...

The Bodhidharma Anthology: The Earliest Records of Zen.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Bodhidharma Anthology: The Earliest Records of Zen. By JEFFREY L. BROUGHTON. Berkeley and Los Angeles: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 1999. Pp. 186. The Bodhidharma Anthology is a collection of texts attributed to Bodhidharma, the...

Grundstrukturen der antikchinesischen Syntax: Eine erklarende Grammatik & Antikchinesisch in funf Element(ar)gangen: Eine propadeutische Einfuhrung & Antikchinesische Texte: Materialien fur den Hochschulunterricht.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Grundstrukturen der antikchinesischen Syntax: Eine erklarende Grammatik. By ROBERT H. GASSMANN. Schweizer Assistische Studien, monograph no. 26. New York: PETER LANG, 1997. Pp. 352 + tables. $54.95 (paper). Antikchinesisch in funf...

V. M. Alekseev: Pis'ma k Eduardu Shavannu i Poliu Pellio.(Review)
January 1, 2001... V. M. Alekseev: Pis'ma k Eduardu Shavannu i Poliu Pellio (Letters of V. M. Alekseev to Edouard Chavannes and Paul Pelliot). Compiled, translated, annotated by I. E. TSIPEROVICH. Archiv Rossiyskogo Vostokovednia. St. Petersburg: ST. PETERSBURG...

Um porto entre dois imperios: Estudos sobre Macau e as relacues luso-chinesas.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Um porto entre dois imperios: Estudos sobre Macau e as relacues luso-chinesas. By JORGE MANUEL DOS SANTOS ALVES: Coleccao Memoria do Oriente, vol. 14. Macau: INSTITVTO PORTVGVES DO ORIENTE, 1999. Pp. 229 (paper). This book opens with a...

A Survey of the Islamic Sites near Aden and in the Abyan District of Yemen.(Review)
January 1, 2001... A Survey of the Islamic Sires near Aden and in the Abyan District of Yemen. By GEOFFREY KING and CRISTINA TONGHINI. London: SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, 1996. Pp. 96, plates, line drawings. This ninety-six...

The Self-Disclosure of God: Principles of Ibn Al-'Arabi's Cosmology.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Self-Disclosure of God: Principles of Ibn [Al-.sup.[subset]]Arabi's Cosmology. By WILLIAM C. CHITTICK. Albany: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, 1998. Pp. x1 + 483. This important volume of selected translations from "The Meccan...

Jaina System of Education.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Jaina System of Education. By DEBENDRA CHANDRA DASGUPTA. Lala Sundarlal Jain Research Series, vol. XII. Delhi: MOTILAL BANARSIDASS, 1999 [1979]. Pp. 134. Rs 200. This volume is a reprint of a 1979 publication of a series of ten lectures...

Studies in the Buddhist Epistemological Tradition: Proceedings of the Second International Dharmakirti Conference, Vienna, June 11-16, 1989.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Studies in the Buddhist Epistemological Tradition: Proceedings of the Second International Dharmakirti Conference, Vienna, June 11-16, 1989. Edited by ERNST STEINKELLNER. Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist. Kl.,...

Fatalism in Ancient India.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Fatalism in Ancient India. By SUKUMARI BHATTACHARJI. Calcutta: BAULMON PRAKASHAN, 1995. Pp. xxvii + 356. Rs 250. Sukumari Bhattacharji, known for her Indian Theogony (Cambridge U.P., 1970; corrected Indian ed., Calcutta: Firma KLM, 1978;...

A Provisional List of Tibetological Research-papers and Articles Published in The People's Republic of China and Tibet.(Review)
January 1, 2001... A Provisional List of Tibetological Research-papers and Articles Published in The People's Republic of China and Tibet. By PER K. SORENSEN. Nepal Research Centre Publications, 17. Stuttgart: FRANZ STEINER VERLAG, 1991. Pp. [6] + 101. DM 44. ...

Vier Studien zum altindischen Syllogismus.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Vier Studien zum altindischen Syllogismus. By CLAUS OETKE. Philosophia Indica, Einsichten-Ansichten, vol. 2. Reinbek: VERLAG FUR ORIENTALISTICHE FACHPUBLIKATIONEN, 1994. The goal of this publication is to probe five theses connected with...

Tamulica et Dravidica: A Selection of Papers on Tamil and Dravidian Linguistics.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Tamulica et Dravidica: A Selection of Papers on Tamil and Dravidian Linguistics. By KAMIL V. ZVELEBIL. Edited by JAROSLAV VACEK and JAN DVORAK. Orientalia Pragensia, vol. 13. Prague: KAROLINUM/CHARLES UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1998. Pp. 296 (paper)....

Pandanus '98: Flowers, Nature, Semiotics: Kavya and Sangam.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Pandanus '98: Flowers, Nature, Semiotics: Kavya and Sangam. Edited by JAROSLAV VACEK and BLANKA KNOTKOVA-CAPKOVA. Prague: SIGNETA, 1999. Pp. 179 (paper). This small volume publishes six papers given at a workshop, "Flower Symbolism in...

The Oxford Anthology of Raj Stories.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Oxford Anthology of Raj Stories, Edited by SAROS COWASJEE. Delhi: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1999. Pp. x + 345. $29.95. Nostalgia freaks (perhaps even a few subalternists) will appreciate this collection of short stories (mostly by...

Lives of Indian Images.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Lives of Indian Images. By RICHARD H. DAVIS. Princeton: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1997. Pp. 331. $39.50, [pound]30 (cloth); $18.95, [pound]11.50 (paper). There are books that defeat even an editor's best attempts to find a reviewer and...

Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians, vol. 9: General Studies and Excavations at Nuzi 10/2.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians, vol. 9: General Studies and Excavations at Nuzi 10/2. Edited by D. I. OWEN and G. WILHELM. Bethesda, Md.: CDL PRESS, 1998. Pp. viii + 396. This new volume of the SCCNH...

Neo-Sumerian Texts from the Royal Ontario Museum, vol. 1 The Administration at Drehem.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Neo-Sumerian Texts from the Royal Ontario Museum, vol. 1 The Administration at Drehem. By MARCEL SIGRIST. Bethesda, Md.: CDL PRESS, 1995. Pp. [v] + 125, 20 plates. In this volume M. Sigrist publishes one hundred seventy-nine administrative...

Helden en goden van Sumer: Een keuze uit de heroische en mythologische dichtkunst van her Oude Mesopotamie.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Helden en goden van Sumer: Een keuze uit de heroische en mythologische dichtkunst van her Oude Mesopotamie. By HERMAN VANSTIPHOUT. Nijmegen: UITGEVERIJ SUN, 1998. Pp. 253. HFI 39.50. The study of Sumerian literature is flourishing. In the...

Food and Society in Classical Antiquity.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Food and Society in Classical Antiquity. By PETER GARNSEY. Cambridge: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1999. Pp. 175, illustrations. $54.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). This compact manual on food is part of a distinguished series of short guides...

Conservation des manuscrits de Dunhuang et d'Asie centrale.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Conservation des manuscrits de Dunhuang et d'Asie centrale. Edited by MONIQUE COHEN. Paris: BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE DE FRANCE, 1998. Pp. 169, illustrations, figures. 230 F (paper). This publication represents the fruits of the second...

Linked Faiths: Essays on Chinese Religions and Traditional Culture, in Honour of Kristofer Schipper.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Linked Faiths: Essays on Chinese Religions and Traditional Culture, in Honour of Kristofer Schipper. Edited by JAN A. D. DE MEYER and PETER M. ENGELFRIET. Sinica Leidensia, vol. 46. Leiden: BRILL, 2000. Pp. 370. A collection of thirteen...

De l'un an multiple: Traductions du chinois vers les langues eruopeenes.(Review)
January 1, 2001... De l'un an multiple: Traductions du chinois vers les langues eruopeenes. Edited by VIVIANE ALLETON and MICHAEL LACKNER. Paris: EDITIONS DE LA MAISON DES SCIENCES DE L'HOMME, 1999. Pp. 341. 195 F Every serious scholar of Chinese studies is...

Suramgamasamadhisutra, The Concentration of Heroic Progress: An Early Mahayana Buddhist Scripture.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Suramgamasamadhisutra, The Concentration of Heroic Progress: An Early Mahayana Buddhist Scripture. Translated and annotated by ETIENNE LAMOTTE. English translation by SARA BOIN-WEBB. Richmond, Surrey: CURZON PRESS, 1999; in association with The...