The Journal of the American Oriental Society articles from January 2002

The Journal of the American Oriental Society archives from January 2002

The excellences of the Qur'an: textual sacrality and the organization of early Islamic society.(fada'il al-Qur'an genre)
January 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION: GENESIS AND EVOLUTION OF THE [FADA.sup.[contains]]IL AL-[QUR.sup.[contains]]AN GENRE THERE IS A VOLUMINOUS LITERATURE in Islam called [fada.sup.[contains]]il or manaqib ("virtues" or "excellences") that praises the merits of...

Competitive hagiography in biographies of al-Awza'i and Sufyan al-Thawri.
January 1, 2002... THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT of Islamic law involved both the elaboration of increasingly complex systems for deriving positive law from Islamic sources (whose validity and relationship to each other were still by no means settled) and the process of...

The body as metaphor for the civil and martial components of empire in Yi Zhou shu, chapter 32; with an excursion on the composition and structure of the Yi Zhou shu.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE YI ZHOU SHU THE Y1 ZHOU SHU [CHINESE CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] or Remainder of the Zhou Documents is a work in seventy chapters that appears to have been compiled into its present form in the Western...

Defining experience: the "poems of seductive allure" (yanshi) of the mid-Tang poet Yuan Zhen (779-831).(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... IN A LETTER TO HIS FRIEND Bo Juyi [CHINESE CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] in 815, the poet Yuan Zhen [CHINESE CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] described a collection of "over eight hundred" of his own poems that he had presented to...

Hebrew [LANGUAGE NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] = Akkadian qata napasu: a term of non-allegiance. (Brief Communications).
January 1, 2002... To Harry Epstein [LANGUAGE NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (m. Avot 1:6) The last chapter in Daniel, chapter twelve, has traditionally been divided into two basic units: (1) a) an eschatological prophecy foreseeing the final victory of...

On the meaning of the name Xi wangmu, Spirit-Mother of the West. (Brief Communications).
January 1, 2002... The standard translation of the ancient Chinese divinity known as Xi wangmu [CHINESE CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] is "Queen Mother of the West." This is misleading, because "Queen Mother" in everyday English refers to the mother of a...

The Arabic Theory of Prosification and Versification: On Hall and Nazm in Arabic Theoretical Discourse. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... The Arabic Theory of Prosification and Versification: On Hall and Nazm in Arabic Theoretical Discourse. By AMIDU SANNI, Beiruter Texte and Studien, vol. 70. Beirut: FRANZ STEINER VERLAG, 1998. Pp. xiii + 186. The phenomenon of hall and nazm...

Word Order in Arabic. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... Word Order in Arabic. By SVE-OLAF DAHLGREN, Orientalia Gothoburgensia, vol. 12. Gothenburg: ACTA UNIVERSITATIS GOTHOBURGENSIS, 1998. Pp. 273. SKr 200. This work falls into two complementary sections, a long and often critical review of the...

Early Maliki Law: Ibn [[blank].sup.[subset]]Abd al-Hakam and his Major Compendium of Jurisprudence. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... Early Maliki Law: Ibn [[blank].sup.[subset]]Abd al-Hakam and his Major Compendium of Jurisprudence. By JONATHAN E. BROCKOPP. Studies in Islamic Law and Society, vol. 14. Leiden: BRILL, 2000. Pp. xx + 312 For scholars of early Maliki law, it...

European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State: The Merchants of Genoa and Turkey. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State: The Merchants of Genoa and Turkey. By KATE FLEET. Cambridge: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1999. Pp. 204. $59.95. This book deals with a quite special aspect of trade with Turchia, i.e.,...

Empedocles Arabus: Une lecture neoplatonicenne tardive. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... Empedocles Arabus: Une lecture neoplatonicenne tardive. By DANIEL DE SMET. Brussels: KONINKLUKE ACADEMIE VOOR WETENSCHAPPEN, LETTEREN EN SCHONE KUNSTEN VAN BELGIE, 1998. Pp. 257. [Distrib. by Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, Belgium] This...

The Hausa Language: An Encyclopedic Reference Grammar. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... The Hausa Language: An Encyclopedic Reference Grammar. By PAUL NEWMAN. Yale Language Series. New Haven: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS. 2000. Pp. xl + 760. Afroasiatic languages number well into the hundreds, but reference grammars about them are...

The Syntax of Spoken Arabic: A Comparative Study of Moroccan, Egyptian, Syrian and Kuwaiti Dialects. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... The Syntax of Spoken Arabic: A Comparative Study of Moroccan, Egyptian, Syrian and Kuwaiti Dialects. By KRISTEN E. BRUSTAD. Washington, D.C.: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2000. Pp. xvii + 442. This book is a revised version of the author's...

Tue Cult of Asherah in Ancient Israel and Judah: Evidence for a Hebrew Goddess. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... Tue Cult of Asherah in Ancient Israel and Judah: Evidence for a Hebrew Goddess. By JUDITH M. HADLEY. University of Cambridge Oriental Publications, vol. 57. Cambridge: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2000. Pp. xv + 262. $64.95. After a large...

The Lie Became Great: The Forgery of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... The Lie Became Great: The Forgery of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures. By OSCAR WHITE MUSCARELLA. Groningen: STYX PUBLICATIONS, 2000. Pp. viii + 540, illus. HFI 250, $100. This book is Muscarella's latest contribution to the research of...

Untersuchungen zur Uberlieferungsgeschichte der Horusstelen: Ein Beitrag zur Religionsgeschichte Agyptens im 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr. 2 vols. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... Untersuchungen zur Uberlieferungsgeschichte der Horusstelen: Ein Beitrag zur Religionsgeschichte Agyptens im 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr. 2 vols. By HEIKE STERNBERG-EL HOTABI. Agyptologische Abhandlung, vol. 62. Wiesbaden: HARRASSOWITZ VERLAG, 1999....

Das Egibi-Archiv, I: Die Felder und Garten, 2 vols. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... Das Egibi-Archiv, I: Die Felder und Garten. By CORNELIA WUNSCH. 2 vols. Cuneiform Monographs, vols. 20A-20B. Groningen: STYX PUBLICATIONS, 2000. Pp. xxxii + 305, 354. HFI 380. The archive of the house of Egibi is the most extensive...

La ley mds antigua: Textos legates sumerios. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... La ley mds antigua: Textos legates sumerios. By MANUEL MOLINA. Pliegos de Oriente. Barcelona: EDICIONES DE LA UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA, 2000. Pp. 186. This compact book presents a wealth of Sumerian texts dealing with law and juridical...

Die Funktionen der lokalen Kasus im Tocharischen. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... Die Funktionen der lokalen Kasus im Tocharischen. By GERD CARLING. Berlin: MOUTON DE GRUYTER, 2000. Pp. xxii + 442. DM 178. The author begins with a sketch of the entire Tocharian case system, a brief summary of the conceptual framework and...

Testi cuneiformi neo-Sumerici da Umma, Nn, 0413-0723, parte I: I testi. .(review in French)(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Testi cuneiformi neo-Sumerici da Umma, Nn, 0413-0723, parte I: I testi. By ALFONSO ARCHI and FRANCESCO POMPONIO; parte II: Le impronte di sigillo. By GIOVANNI BERGAMINI. Catalogo del Museo Egizio di Torino, vol. 8. Turin: MINISTERO PER I BENT...

The Year-Names of the First Dynasty of Babylon, vol. 1, Chronological Matters: The Year-Name System and the Date-Lists; vol. 2: The Year-Names Reconstructed and Critically Annotated in Light of their Exemplars. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... The Year-Names of the First Dynasty of Babylon, vol. 1: Chronological Matters: The Year-Name System and the Date-Lists; vol. 2: The Year-Names Reconstructed and Critically Annotated in Light of their Exemplars. By MALCOLM J. A. HORSNELL....

Targum Neofiti 1: An Exegetical Commentary to Genesis, Including Full Rabbinic Parallels. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... Targum Neofiti 1: An Exegetical Commentary to Genesis, Including Full Rabbinic Parallels. By B. GROSSFELD, edited by L. H. SCHIFFMAN. New York: SEPHER-HERMON PRESS, 2000 Pp. xxxvi + 506. $65. This book is based on the author's dissertation,...

The Fruit of the Vine: Viticulture in Ancient Israel. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... The Fruit of the Vine: Viticulture in Ancient Israel. By CAREY ELLEN WALSH. Harvard Semitic Monographs, vol. 60. Winona Lake, Ind.: EISENBRAUNS, 2000. Pp. vii + 259. $29.95. The growing interest among biblical scholars in the daily lives of...

The Practical Impact of Science on Near Eastern and Aegean Archaeology. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... The practical Impact of Science on Near Eastern and Aegean Archaeology. Edited by SCOTT PIKE and SEYMOUR GITIN. Wiener Laboratory Monograph, vol. 3. London: ARCHETYPE BOOKS, 1999. Pp. ix + 169, illus. [pounds sterling]20, $30(paper). [Distrib....

Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek Documentary Texts from Nahal Hever and Other Sites, With an Appendix Containing Alleged Qumran Texts, The Seiyal Collection II. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek Documentary Texts from Nahal Hever and Other Sites, With an Appendix Containing Alleged Qumran Texts (The Seiyal Collection II). By HANNAH M. COTTON and ADA YARDENI. Discoveries in the Judaean Desert, vol. 27. Oxford:...

Life and Death in Ancient Egypt: Scenes from Private Tombs in New Kingdom Thebes. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... Life and Death in Ancient Egypt: Scenes from Private Tombs in New Kingdom Thebes. By SIGRID HODEL-HOENES; translated by DAVID WARBURTON. Ithaca: CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2000. Pp. xii + 329, illus. $49.95. The private rock tombs of ancient...

King Josiah of Judah: The Lost Messiah of Israel. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... King Josiah of Judah: The Lost Messiah of Israel. By MARVIN A. SWEENEY. Oxford: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2001. Pp. xvi + 350. $60. Sweeney's study of King Josiah and the so-called Deuteronomic reform addresses the recent archaeological...

Minshat Abu Omar II: Ein vor- und fruhgeschichtlicher Friedhof im Nildelta: Graber 11-204. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Minshat Abu Omar II: Ein vor- und fruhgeschichtlicher Friedhof im Nildelta: Graber 11-204. By KARLA KROEPER and DIETRICH WILDUNG. Mainz: PHILIPP VON ZABERN, 2000. Pp. xviii + 177, illus. DM 140. In the early 1980s, when discoveries made...

A Letter That Has Not Been Read: Dreams in the Hebrew Bible. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... A Letter that Has Not been Read: Dreams in the Hebrew Bible. By SHAUL BAR; translated by LENN J. SCHRAMM. Monographs of the Hebrew Union College, vol. 25. Cincinnati: HEBREW UNION COLLEGE PRESS, 2001. Pp. xii + 257. S39.95. The subject of...

Ritual in Narrative: The Dynamics of Feasting, Mourning, and Retaliation Rites in the Ugaritic Tale of Aqhat. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Ritual in Narrative: The Dynamics of Feasting, Mourning, and Retaliation Rites in the Ugaritic Tale of Aqhat. By DAVID P. WRIGHT. Winona Lake, Ind.: EISENBRAUNS, 2001. Pp. xii + 242. $37.50. Ritual interpretations of Ugaritic narrative...

In the Service of the King: Officialdom in Ancient Israel and Judah. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... In the Service of the King: Officialdom in Ancient Israel and Judah. By NILI SACHER Fox. Cincinnati: HEBREW UNION COLLEGE PRESS, 2000. Pp. 367. This monograph meets the need for an up-to-date examination of all the various titles for...

Die Feldzugdarstellungen des Neuen Reiches: Eine Bildanalyse. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Die Feldzugdarstellungen des Neuen Reiches: Eine Bildanalyse. By SUSANNA CONSTANZ HEINZ. Vienna: VERLAG DER OSTERREICHISCHEN AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN, 2001. Pp. 327, illus. OS 2190 (paper). This massive new book is an improvement on...

Urnamma of Ur in Sumerian Literary Tradition. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... Urnamma of Ur in Sumerian Literary Tradition. By ESTHER FLUCKIGER-HAWKER. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, vol. 166. Fribourg, Switzerland: UNIVERSITY PRESS; Gottingen: VANDENHOECK & RUPRECHT, 1999. Pp. xviii + 384, illus. FS 120. This...

Mikhail Bakhtin and Biblical Scholarship: An Introduction. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... Mikhail Bakhtin and Biblical Scholarship: An Introduction. By BARBARA GREEN. SBL Semeia Series, vol. 38. Atlanta: SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE, 2000. Pp. vii + 205. $24.95 (paper). "Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895-1975) was arguably...

The End of the Alpha Text of Esther: Translation and Narrative Technique in MT 8:1-17, LXX 8:1-17, and AT 7:14-41. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... The End of the Alpha Text of Esther: Translation and Narrative Technique in MT 8:1-17, LXX 8:1-17, and AT 7:14-41. By KRISTIN DE TROYER. SBL Septuagint and Cognate Studies Series, vol. 48. Atlanta: SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE, 2000. Pp. x +...

The Talmud Yerushalmi and Graeco-Roman Culture, vol. 1. and The Talmud Yerushalmi and Graeco-Roman Culture, vol. 2. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... The Talmud Yerushalmi and Graeco-Roman Culture, vol. 1. Edited by PETER SCHAFER. Texte und Studien zum Antiken Judentum, vol. 71. Tubingen: MOHR SIEBECK, 1998. Pp. viii + 690. DM 178. The Talmud Yerushalmi and Graeco-Roman Culture, vol. 2....

Rethinking the Foundations: Historiography in the Ancient World and in the Bible: Essays in Honour of John Van Seters. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... Rethinking the Foundations: Historiography in the Ancient World and in the Bible: Essays in Honour of John Van Seters. Edited by S. L. MCKENZIE, T. ROMER, and H. H. SCHMID. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, vol....

Akkadian Loanwords in Biblical Hebrew. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... Akkadian Loanwords in Biblical Hebrew. By PAUL V. MANKOWSKI. Harvard Semitic Studies, vol. 47. Winona Lake, Ind.: EISENBRAUNS, 2000. Pp. xviii + 232. $29.95. Since cuneiform was deciphered a century and a half ago, Akkadian has provided...

Patterns of Disengagement: The Practice and Portrayal of Reclusion in Early Medieval China. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Patterns of Disengagement: The Practice and Portrayal of Reclusion in Early Medieval China. By ALAN J. BERKOWTTZ. Stanford: STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2000. Pp. 296. $55. This wonderfully erudite and meticulously researched new volume...

Life Along the Silk Road. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Life along the Silk Road. By SUSAN WHITFIELD. London: JOHN MURRAY, 1999. Pp. xiii + 242, maps, illustrations. [Distrib. in North America by Univ. of California Press] This book is intended for a popular audience. Nevertheless, since it is...

Taoism and the Arts of China. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Taoism and the Arts of China. Edited by STEPHEN LITTLE, with SHAWN EICHMAN. Exhibition catalogue, The Art Institute of Chicago. Berkeley and Los Angeles: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 2000. Pp. 415, plates, illus. $60 (cloth); $39.95 (paper)....

A Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Former Han and Xin Periods, 221 B.C.-A.D. 24. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... A Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Former Han and Xin Periods (221 B.C.-A.D. 24). By MICHAEL LOEWE. Handbook of Oriental Studies, sect. 4: China, vol. 16. Leiden: BRILL, 2000. Pp. xxiii + 837. $245. The early imperial period, comprising...

A Study of Nagarjuna's Twenty Verses on the Great Vehicle (Mahayanavimsika) and His Verses on lie Heart of Dependent Origination (Pratityasamutpadahrdayakarika). (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... A Study of Nagarjuna's Twenty Verses on the Great Vehicle (Mahayanavimsika) and His Verses on lie Heart of Dependent Origination (Pratityasamutpadahrdayakarika), with the Interpretation of the Heart of Dependent Origination...

Recognizing Reality: Dharmakirti and His Tibetan Interpreters. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Recognizing Reality: Dharmakirti and His Tibetan Interpreters. By GEORGES B. J. DREYFUS. Albany: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, 1997. Pp. xxi + 622. Roughly once a decade a work is published which revolutionizes its area of study and...

Devoted to the Goddess: The Life and Work of Ramprasad. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... Devoted to the Goddess: The Life and Work of Ramprasad. By MALCOLM MCLEAN. Albany: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, 1998. Pp. xix + 205. $19.95 (paper). Ramprasad was a religious figure of eighteenth-century Bengal who was responsible...

La Trident sur le palais: Une cabale anti-vishnouite dans un royaume hindou a l'epoque coloniale. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... La Trident sur le palais: Une cabale anti-vishnouite dans un royaume hindou a l'epoque coloniale. By CATHERINE CLEMENTIN-OJHA. Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient, monograph 186. Paris: PRESSES DE l'ECOLE FRANCAISE D'EXTREME-ORIENT, 1999. Pp. 283....

Missionaries and a Hindu State: Travancore, 1858-1936. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... Missionaries and a Hindu State: Travancore 1858-1936. By KOJI KAWASHIMA. Delhi: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1998. Pp. xi + 252. $26, Rs 540. In this book, Koji Kawashima argues that missionaries and the state in Travancore worked together to...

Representing Hinduism: The Construction of Religious and National Identity. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... Representing Hinduism: The Construction of Religious and National Identity. Edited by VASUDHA DALMIA and HEINRICH VON STIETENCRON. New Delhi: SAGE PUBLICATIONS, 1995. Pp. 467. $24.95 (paper). Even if scholarship sometimes may happen in...

Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India. By GYAN PRAKASH. Princeton: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS. Pp. xiii + 304. $49.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). This is a disappointing book. It is true that Prakash describes many...

A Hindi Reference Grammar. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... A Hindi Reference Grammar. By STELLA SANDHAL. Louvain: PEETERS, 2000. Pp. x + 156. FB 800. The book under review is intended to be a "reference grammar of the Modern Hindi language written and spoken by educated speakers and taught in...

The Early Upanisads: Annotated Text and Translation & The Upanisads. .(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... The Early Upanisads: Annotated Text and Translation. By PATRICK OLIVELLE. New York: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1998. Pp. xxii + 677. $65.00. The Upanisads. Translated by VALERIE J. ROEBUCK. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: PENGUIN BOOKS, 2000. Pp....

Spiritual Titanism: Indian, Chinese, and Western Perspectives. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... Spiritual Titanism: Indian, Chinese, and Western Perspectives. By NICHOLAS F. GIER. Albany: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, 2000. Pp. xxvi + 302 (paper). "Titanism," as it appears in the title of this book, refers to any "worldview in...

Pruvodce dejinami staroindicke literatury. (Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... Pruvodce dejinami staroindicke literatury. By DUSAN ZBAVITEL and JAROSLAV VACEK. Trebic: ARCA JIMFA, 1996. Pp. 537. I have yet to learn of a better and more detailed survey of ancient Indian literature--in any of the so-called great...

Approaching Ottoman History: An Approach to the Sources. (Brief Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... Approaching Ottoman History: An Approach to the Sources. By SURAIYA FAROQHI. Cambridge: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1999. Pp. x + 221. $59.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). A leading historian of the Ottoman empire wrote the present book,...

Introduction: Source Studies with a Reconstruction of Abu Turab's K. al-[l.sup.[subset]]tiqab and Diwan of Abu n-Nagm: Materials for tile Study of Ragaz Poetry, 1. (Brief Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... Lexical Ibdal, Part 1: Introduction: Source Studies with a Reconstruction of Abu Turab's K. al-[l.sup.[subset]]tiqab. By JAAKKO HAMEEN-ANTTILA. Studia Orientalia, vol. 71. Helsinki: THE FINNISH ORIENTAL SOCIETY, 1993. Pp. 196 + 47 (Arabic...

The Ottoman City Between East and West: Aleppo, Izmir, and Istanbul. (Brief Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... The Ottoman City Between East and West: Aleppo, Izmir, and Istanbul. By EDHEM ELDEM, DANIEL GOFFMAN, and BRUCE MASTERS. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. Cambridge: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1999. Pp. xvi + 244, illus. maps. $59.95....

Ahlan Wa Sahlan: Functional Modern Standard Arabic for Beginners. (Brief Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... Ahlan Wa Sahlan: Functional Modern Standard Arabic for Beginners. By MAHDI ALOSH. New Haven: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2000. Pp. xxv + 585. This Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) textbook of thirty lessons differs considerably from those using a...

Introductory Grammar of Amharic. (Brief Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... Introductory Grammar of Amharic. By WOLF LESLAU. Porta Linguarum Orientalium, vol. 21. Wiesbaden: HARRASSOWITZ VERLAG, 2000. Pp. xix + 232. DM 98 (paper). The work under review is the latest addition to Harrassowitz's well-known Porta...

Damaskus-Aleppo: 5000 Jahre Stadtentwicklung in Syrien. (Brief Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... Damaskus-Aleppo: 5000 Jahre Stadtentwicklung in Syrien. Edited by BEATE BOLLMAN. Mainz: PHILIPP VON ZABERN, 2000. Pp. 535, photographs. DM 49 (paper). This volume of essays on Damascus and Aleppo, concerned with the historical development...

The Apocryphal Ezekiel. (Brief Reviews of Books).
January 1, 2002... The Apocryphal Ezekiel. Edited by MICHAEL E. STONE, BENJAMIN G. WRIGHT, and DAVID SATRAN. SBL Early Judaism and its Literature, vol. 18. Atlanta: SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE, 2000. Pp. xii + 167. $45. This volume is an exercise in the...

Peluse et l'angle oriental du delta Egyptien aux epoques grecque, romaine et byzantine. (Brief Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Peluse et l'angle oriental du delta Egyptien aux epoques grecque, romaine et byzantine. By JEAN-YVES CARREZ-MARATRAY. Bibliotheque d'Etude, vol. 124. Cairo: INSTITUT FRANCAIS D'ARCHEOLOGIE ORIENTALE, 1999. Pp. xxiv + 491, illus. FF 400...

Neolithic Society in Greece. (Brief Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Neolithic Society in Greece. Edited by PAUL HALSTEAD Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology, vol. 2. Sheffield: SHEFFIELD ACADEMIC PRESS, 1999. Pp. 163, illus. [pounds sterling]14.95, $19.95 (paper). This collection offers an up-to-date...

The Samaritans and Early Judaism: A Literary Analysis. (Brief Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... The Samaritans and Early Judaism: A Literary Analysis. By INGRID HJELM. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series, vol. 303; Copenhagen International Seminar, vol. 7. Sheffield: SHEFFIELD ACADEMIC PRESS, 2000. Pp. 318. $85....

Minor Prophets, part 2. (Brief Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Minor Prophets, part 2. By MICHAEL H. FLOYD. The Forms of the Old Testament Literature, vol. 22. Grand Rapids, Mich.: WM. B. EERDMANS PUBLISHING Co., 2000. Pp. xviii + 651. $49 (paper). This volume covers the latter half of the Minor...

An Elementary Grammar of Biblical Hebrew. (Brief Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... An Elementary Grammar of Biblical Hebrew. By EDWIN C. HOSTETTER. Biblical Languages: Hebrew, vol. 1. Sheffield: SHEFFIELD ACADEMIC PRESS, 2000. Pp. 176. $84 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). This is a good but flawed introduction to Biblical Hebrew....

An Introduction to Early Judaism. (Brief Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... An Introduction to Early Judaism. By JAMES C. VANDERKAM. Grand Rapids, Mich.: WM. B. EERDMANS PUBLISHING Co., 2001. Pp. xii + 234. $18 (paper). Writing an introductory textbook that can be used profitably in a variety of contexts is a...

Patavina Orientalia Selecta. (Brief Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Patavina Orientalia Selecta. Edited by ELENA ROVA. History of the Ancient Near East: Monographs, vol. 4. Padua: SARGON SRL, 2000. Pp. xvii + 290, illus. (paper). The venerable university of Padua has only been home to a professorship in...

Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archaologie, vol. 9, fascicle 1-2: Nab-Nanse & Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archaologie, vol. 9, fascicle 3-4: [Nanse-.sup.d]NIM.NIM. (Brief Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archaologie, vol. 9, fascicle 1-2: Nab-Nanse. Edited by D. O. EDZARD. Berlin: WALTER DE GRUYTER, 1998. Pp. 1-160. DM 144 (paper). Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen...

Images as Media: Sources for the Cultural History of the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean (1st Millennium BCE). (Brief Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Images as Media: Sources for the Cultural History of the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean (1st Millennium BCE). Edited by CHRISTOPH UEHLINGER. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, vol. 175. Fribourg, Switzerland: UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2000. Pp....

Prophecy in its Ancient Near Eastern Context: Mesopotamian, Biblical, and Arabian Perspectives. (Brief Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Prophecy in its Ancient Near Eastern Context: Mesopotamian, Biblical, and Arabian Perspectives. Edited by Martii Nissinen. SBL Symposium Series, vol. 13. Atlanta: SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE, 2000. Pp. xii + 160. $29.95 (paper). This...

Hammurabi's Laws: Text, Translation and Glossary. (Brief Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Hammurabi's Laws: Text, Translation and Glossary. By M. E. J. RICHARDSON. The Biblical Seminar, vol. 73; Semitic Texts and Studies, vol. 2. Sheffield: SHEFFIELD ACADEMIC PRESS, 2000. Pp. 423. $90 (cloth); $35 (paper). Because of the...

A Jaina Perspective on the Philosophy of Religion. (Brief Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... A Jaina Perspective on the Philosophy of Religion. By ARVIND SHARMA. Lala Sundarlal Jain Research Series, vol. 16. Delhi: MOTILAL BANARSIDASS, 2001. Rs 195. This book is a follow-on to three earlier books by Sharma on philosophy of...

Jaina Theory of Multiple Facets of Reality and Truth (Anekantavada). (Brief Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Jaina Theory of Multiple Facets of Reality and Truth (Anekantavada). Edited by NAGIN J. SHAH. Delhi: MOTILAL BANARSIDASS, 2000. Pp. xvi + 148. The Jaina theory of Multiple Facets of Realty and Truth (Anekantavada) is so central to Jain...

Open Boundaries: Jai Communities and Cultures in Indian History. (Brief Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Open Boundaries: Jai Communities and Cultures in Indian History. Edited by JOHN E. CORT. SUNY Series in Hindu Studies. Albany: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, 1998. Pp. viii + 264. $24.95 (paper). What we have here is a book on Jam...

Sources on the Alans. (Brief Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Sources on the Alans. By agusti ALEMANY. Handbook of Oriental Studies, sect. 8: Central Asia, vol. 5. Leiden: BRILL, 2000. Pp. xxi + 461, maps. This book, which grew out of a doctoral thesis submitted to the University of Barcelona in...

Buddhismus, Staat und Gesellschaft in den Landern des Theravada-Buddhismus, Band II: Birma, Kambodscha, Laos, Thailand; Neuausgabe mit Supplement sowie Personen- und Sachregister. (Brief Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Buddhismus, Staat und Gesellschaft in den Landern des Theravada-Buddhismus, Band II: Birma, Kambodscha, Laos, Thailand; Neuausgabe mit Supplement sowie Personen- und Sachregister. By HEINZ BECHERT. Veroffentlichungen des Seminars fur Indologie...

Pali Grammar. (Brief Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Pali Grammar. By VITO PERNIOLA, S.J. Oxford: THE PALI TEXT SOCIETY, 1997. Pp. iii + 411. [pounds sterling]7. This is the revised and considerably enlarged version of the author's A Grammar of the Pali Language published in Colombo in 1958,...

La Deesse sGrol-ma (Tara): Recherches sur la nature et le statut d'une divinite du bouddhisme tibetain. (Brief Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... La Deesse sGrol-ma (Tara): Recherches sur la nature et le statut d'une divinite du bouddhisme tibetain. BY PIERRE ARENES. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, vol. 74. Louvain: PEETERS, 1996. Pp. 449. FB 2900. This study, almost encyclopedic in...

Consecration of Images and Stupas in Indo-Tibetan Tantric Buddhism. (Brief Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Consecration of Images and Stupas in Indo-Tibetan Tantric Buddhism. By YAEL BENTOR. Brill's Indological Library, vol. 11. Leiden: BRILL, 1996. Pp. xxii + 415. This work is an in-depth investigation of the ritual of consecrating images,...

Kar glin Zi khro: A Tantric Buddhist Concept. (Brief Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Kar glin Zi khro: A Tantric Buddhist Concept. By HENK BLEZER. CNWS Publications, vol. 56. Leiden: RESEARCH SCHOOL CNWS, 1997. Pp. 237, plates. The author, well versed in the Pali and Buddhist Sanskrit tradition, was drawn by the scanty...

The Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain: Popular Pilgrimage and Visionary Landscape in Southeast Tibet. (Brief Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... The Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain: Popular Pilgrimage and Visionary Landscape in Southeast Tibet. By TONI HUBER. New York: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1999. Pp. xv + 297, illus. $65. This fascinating book is the first of its kind to provide a...

Dharmakirti's Thought and its Impact on Indian and Tibetan Philosophy: Proceedings of the Third International Conference, Hiroshima, November 4-6, 1997. (Brief Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Dharmakirti's Thought and its Impact on Indian and Tibetan Philosophy: Proceedings of the Third International Conference, Hiroshima, November 4-6, 1997. Edited by SHORYU KATSURA. Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist. Kl.,...

Path to the Middle: Oral Madhyamika Philosophy in Tibet. (Brief Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Path to the Middle: Oral Madhyamika Philosophy in Tibet. By ANN CAROLYN KLEIN. New York: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1994. Pp. xix + 303. $19.95. This study purports to present the understanding of one of Tsong-kha-pa's writings by the late...

Divinity Secularized: An Inquiry into the Nature and Form of the Songs Ascribed to the Sixth Dalai Lama. (Brief Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Divinity Secularized: An Inquiry into the Nature and Form of the Songs Ascribed to the Sixth Dalai Lama. By PER K. SORENSEN. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde, vol. 25. Vienna: ARBEITSKREIS FUR TIBETISCHE UND BUDDHISTISCHE...