The Journal of the American Oriental Society articles from January 2007

The Journal of the American Oriental Society archives from January 2007

Demonstratives in Semitic.
January 1, 2007... 1. INTRODUCTION Semitic languages employ a wide variety of demonstrative pronouns to express basic deictic categories. These pronouns commonly reflect a bipartite system that distinguishes between near and remote deixis. Most West Semitic...

Cultic prophecy in Assyria and in the Psalms.
January 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION Since the classic debate between Mowinckel and Gunkel in the early twentieth century, no consensus has been reached on key questions regarding cultic prophecy or its relationship to the Book of Psalms. Mowinckel attempted to...

The Lecherous Holy Man and the Maiden in the Box.
January 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION For many centuries, a story of beauty, lust, and trickery has circulated in India. It was long ago written down, later to be rechronicled time and time again, in a number of story collections, in many different Indian...

The origin of Indic and Iranian feminines in -ani-(d).
January 1, 2007... 1.0 Vedic has a feminine-forming suffix -ani(d) with devi-inflection (1) that is derived nearly exclusively from thematic stems and that makes derivatives in the following two semantic groups: a) 'wife of x', with x being the name of a...

A note on ki-ma LI-i-im (Gilgamesh P 218, 224).
January 1, 2007... The words is-sa-ab-tu-ma ki-ma LI-i-im i-lu-du occur twice (the second time as is-sa-ab-tu-u-ma) in the depiction of the fight between Gilgamesh and Enkidu in column vi of the Pennsylvania tablet. The two verbs are clear: issabtuma, "they...

Monuments decores en bas relief aux noms de Thoutmosis II et Hatchepsout a Karnak. 2 vols.
January 1, 2007... Monuments decores en bas relief aux noms de Thoutmosis II et Hatchepsout a Karnak. 2 vols. By LUC GABOLDE. MIFAO 123. Cairo: INSTITUT FRANCAIS D'ARCHEOLOGIE ORIENTALS, 2005. Pp. vii + 263, plates. (paper) The life of Hatshepsut is one of...

Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt.
January 1, 2007... Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt. By JAN ASSMANN, translated by David Lorton. Ithaca: CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2005. Pp. xiii + 490. $59.95. The present work represents a comprehensive study of the concepts of death and afterlife in...

Egyptian Art: Selected Writings of Bernard V. Bothmer.
January 1, 2007... Egyptian Art: Selected Writings of Bernard V. Bothmer. By Bernard V. Bothmer, edited by Madeleine E. Cody. Oxford: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2004. Pp. xxii + 517, illus. In the editorial preface to this homage to the contributions by...

Mesopotamien: Die altbabylanische Zeit.
January 1, 2007... Mesopotamien: Die altbabylanische Zeit. By DOMINIQUE CHARPIN; DIETZ OTTO EDZAKIX and MARTEN STOL. Annaherungen, vol. 4. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, vol. 160/4. Freiburg, Switzerland: ACADEMIC PRESS, 2004. Pp. 1027. FS248. "Annaherungen,"...

Mesopotamian Chronicles.
January 1, 2007... Mesopotamian Chronicles. By JEAN-JACQUES GLASSNER, edited by Benjamin R. Foster. Writings from the Ancient World, vol. 19. Atlanta: SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE, 2004. Pp. xx + 365. $24.95 (paper). Jean-Jacques Glassner, for the second...

Rabbinic interpretation of Scripture in the Mishnah.
January 1, 2007... Rabbinic Interpretation of Scripture in the Mishnah. BY ALEXANDER SAMELY. Oxford: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2002. Pp. xi + 481. $85. The title of Alexander Samely's book gives little indication that its primary aim is to explain the mishnaic...

Surviving Sacrilege: Cultural Persistence in Jewish Antiquity.
January 1, 2007... Surviving Sacrilege: Cultural Persistence in Jewish Antiquity. By STEVEN WEITZMAN. Cambridge, Massachusetts: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2005. Pp. ix + 193. $39.95. Wide-ranging in both temporal perspective and textual base, Weitzman's study...

The Social Roots of Biblical Yahwism.
January 1, 2007... The Social Roots of Biblical Yahwism. By STEPHEN L. COOK. SBL Studies in Biblical Literature, vol. 8. Atlanta: SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE, 2004. Pp. xii + 310. $39.95 (paper). The Social Roots of Biblical Yahwism is a study that reacts...

Jesus and Archaeology.
January 1, 2007... Jesus and Archaeology. Edited by JAMES H. CHARLESWORTH. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. EERDMANS PUBLISHING Co., 2006. Pp. xxv + 740, illus. $50 (paper). This volume contains thirty papers presented at a millennium conference in Jerusalem...

Was Hinduism Invented? Britons, Indians, and the colonial Construction of religion.
January 1, 2007... Was Hinduism Invented? Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of Religion. By BRIAN K. PENNINGTON. New York: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2005. Pp. 249, ill. $47.50. In this polished and aptly illustrated book, Brian K. Pennington...

South-Indian Horizons.
January 1, 2007... South-Indian Horizons: Felicitation Volume for Francois Gros on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday. Edited by JEAN-LUC CHEVILLARD and EVA with the collaboration of A. Murugaiyan and a preface by R. E. Asher. Publications du department...

Epics, Khilas, and Puranas: Continuities and Ruptures.
January 1, 2007... Epics, Khilas, and Puranas: Continuities and Ruptures. Edited by PETTERI KOSKIKALLIO. Zagreb: CROATIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS, 2005. Pp. xxviii + 683. In 2002, the same year in which the proceedings of the second Dubrovnik...

Tibetan Renaissance: Tantric Buddhism in the Rebirth of Tibetan Culture.
January 1, 2007... Tibetan Renaissance: Tantric Buddhism in the Rebirth of Tibetan Culture. By RONALD M. DAVIDSON. New York: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2005. Pp. xvi + 596. $75. (cloth), $32.50 (paper). Everything you know is wrong. That phrase, a section...

Haunting the Buddha. Indian Popular Religions and the Formation of Buddhism.
January 1, 2007... Haunting the Buddha. Indian Popular Religions and the Formation of Buddhism. By ROBERT DECAROLI. New York: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2004. Pp. viii + 230, plates. Over thirty-five years ago, the great historian of Indian art. V. S....

Ramayana, Book Four, Kishkindha by Valmiki.
January 1, 2007... Ramayana, Book Four, Kishkindha by VALMIKI (on the dust jacket); [Ramayana, Kiskindha, Valmiki (on the title page)]. Translated by ROSALIND LEFEBER. Pp. 415. Rakshasa's Ring, by Vishakha-datta [Raksasa's Ring, Visakhadatta]. Translated by...

Index des mots de l'oeuvre de Bhavabhuti.
January 1, 2007... Index des mots de l'oeuvre de Bhavabhuti. By Francois Grimal. Collection Indologie, no. 92. Pondicherry: INSTITUT FRANCAIS DE PONDICHERY, 2005 Pp. viii + 435. This large-format work delivers neither more nor less than its title indicates....

Panini, his work and its Traditions.
January 1, 2007... Panini, His Work and Its Traditions, vol. 1:Background and Introduction. By GEORGE CARDONA. 2nd edition, revised and enlarged. Delhi: MOTILAL BANARSIDASS PUBLISHERS, 1997. Pp. lxiv + 763. This volume, which has justly become popular and...

Ajanta: Handbuch der Malereien.
January 1, 2007... Ajanta: Handbuch der Malereien, 2: Devotionale und ornamentale Malereien, vol. 1: Interpretation; vol. 2: Plates By MONIKA ZIN. Wiesbaden: HARRASOWITZ VERLAG, 2003. Pp. 544; 38 plates. The volume under consideration is in the same series as...

Gone to the dogs in ancient India.
January 1, 2007... Gone to the Dogs in Ancient India. By WILLEM BOLLEE. Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophich-historische Klasse, Sitzungsberichte, 2006, no. 2. Munich: VERLAG DER BAYDERISCHEN AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN, 2006. Pp. 135. This...

Treasures of Indian Wildlife.
January 1, 2007... Treasures of Indian Wildlife. Edited by ASHOK S. KOTHARI and BOMAN F. CHHAPGAR. Mumbai: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, for the Bombay Natural History Society, 2005. Pp. 216, plates. Rs 3040. This volume is a feast for the eye. Produced on behalf...

Fabulous Females and Peerless Pirs: tales of Mad Adventure in Old Bengal.
January 1, 2007... Fabulous Females and Peerless Pirs: Tales of Mad Adventure in Old Bengal. By TONY K. STEWART. New York: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2004. Pp. xiv + 267. $24.95. Tony Stewart is the expert on Satya Pir. He has worked on this figure, his...

Translating, Translations, Translators: from India to the West.
January 1, 2007... Translating, Translations, Translators: From India to the West. Edited by ENRICA GARZILLI. Harvard Oriental Series, Opera Minora, vol. 1. Cambridge, Massachusetts: DEPARTMENT OF SANSKRIT AND INDIAN STUDIES, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 1996. Pp. xiv +...

The Birth of Christianity: the first twenty years after Jesus.
January 1, 2007... The Birth of Christianity: The First Twenty Years after Jesus, vol. 1. By PAUL BARNETT. Grand Rapids, Michigan: WM. B. EERDMANS PUBLISHING CO., 2005. Pp. x + 230. $15 (paper). The thesis of this short and accessible book is straightforward:...

Psalms in Community: Jewish and Christian Textual, Liturgical, and Artistic Traditions.
January 1, 2007... Psalms in Community: Jewish and Christian Textual. Liturgical, and Artistic Traditions. Edited by HAROLD W. ATTRIDGE AND MARGOT E. FASSLER. SBL Symposium Series, vol. 25. Atlanta: SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE, 2003, Pp. xiii + 474, illus....

Officina Magica: Essays on the Practice of Magic in Antiquity.
January 1, 2007... Officina Magica: Essays on the Practice of Magic in Antiquity. Edited by SHAUL SHAKED. Institute of Jewish Studies Studies in Judaica, Vol. 4. Leiden: BRILL, 2005. Pp. x + 320, illus. [euro] 149. The majority of the essays in this volume...

Bilder im Wandel: Die Kunst der Ramessidischen Privatgraber.
January 1, 2007... Bilder im Wandel: Die Kunst der Ramessidischen Privatgraber. By EVA HOFMANN. Theben, vol. 17. Mainz: VERLAG PHILIPP VON ZABERN, 2004, Pp. ix + 217, illus. [euro]86. One of the glories of ancient Egyptian civilization is the incredible...

Kition de Chypre.
January 1, 2007... Kition de Chypre. By MARGERITE YON. Guides archeologiques de l'Institut Francais du Proche-Orient, vol. 4. Paris: EDITIONS RECHERCHE SUR LES CIVILISATIONS, 2006. Pp. 156 (illus.). This excellent and beautifully illustrated guide to the...