The Journal of the American Oriental Society articles from July 2001

The Journal of the American Oriental Society archives from July 2001

Methods of pricing and price regulation in Roman Palestine in the third and fourth centuries.
July 1, 2001... While it is widely recognized that regulation of commercial prices was an important factor of economic life in the Roman Empire, little is known of the mechanisms through which this was carried out. The literature of the Jewish...

Wang tong and the compilation of the zhongshuo: a new evaluation of the source materials and points of controversy.
July 1, 2001... In 1977, Howard Wechsler summarized the thousand-year-old Wang Tong controversy and surveyed the source materials that pertain to Wang Tong and the Zhonghshuo. Unfortunately, the problematic source materials that Wechsler noted but left...

A propos des origines du suffixe -men [CHINESE CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] en chinois.
July 1, 2001... ECOLE DES HAUTES ETUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES Dans cet article on examine les principales theses en concurrence concernant I'origine du suffixe-men. Leur coherence interne est evaluee a la fois sur le plan historique et, Ce qui est nouveau,...

The Kitab al-kasb attributed to al-Shaybani: poverty, surplus, and the circulation of wealth.(early Islam)
July 1, 2001... Modern discussions of asceticism and accumulation of capital in the early Islamic world cite a Kitab al-kasb attributed to al-Shaybani. This book is actually something of a collective Hanafi production, with much of its content traceable to...

The succession to the caliph Musa al-Hadi.(Harun al-Rashid)
July 1, 2001... Harun al-Rashid succeeded his elder brother Musa al-Hadi to the caliphate in confused circumstances. It is clear that Musa had not wanted his brother to succeed him, but not whether in his short caliphate Musa had formally replaced Harun as...

Diptych in verse: gender hybridity, language consciousness, and national identity in Nirala's "Jago Phir Ek Bar".(Hindi poetry)
July 1, 2001... "Nirala" (literally "the strange one ) was the pen name of Suryakant Tripathi (1899?-1961), one of the four major twentieth-century Hindi poets associated with Chayavad, the first prominent "movement" in contemporary Hindi poetry. Many...

Errata, jaos 121.1, Hamp.(Correction Notice)
July 1, 2001... The following lines in the brief communication by E. P. Hamp (JAOS 121: 89) were inadvertently altered in final proof. They should have read: (Left column, line 16): "CDIAL 5621 taksan- m. 'carpenter' RV acc. taksanam,..." (Left...

Phonizisch-punische grammatik.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Phonizisch-Punische Grammatik. By JOHANNES FRIEDRICH and WOLFGANG ROLLIG. Third edition, revised by MARIA GIULIA AMADASI GUZZO with the assistance of Werner R. Mayer. Analecta Orientalia, vol. 55. Rome: EDITRICE PONTIFICIO ISTITUTO BIBLICO,...

Born in heaven, made on earth: the making of the cult image in the ancient near east.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Born in Heaven, Made on Earth: The Making of the Cult Image in the Ancient Near East. Edited by MICHAEL B. DICK. Winona Lake, Ind.: EISENBRAUNS, 1999. Pp. xii + 243. $35.00. This is a collection of cssays on the manufacture of cult statues...

Das Deuteronomium: Politische Theologie und Rechtsreform in Juda und Assyrien.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Das Deuteronomium: Politische Theologie und Rechtsreform in Juda und Assyrien. By ECKART OTTO. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, vol. 284. Berlin: WALTER DE GRUYTER, 1999. Pp. x + 432. DM 198. Die vorliegende...

Unterscungen zur nominalen stammbildung des hethitischen.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Unterscungen zur nominalen Stammbildung des Hethitischen. By ELISABETH RIEKEN. Studien zu den Bogazkoy-Texten, vol. 44. Wiesbaden: HARRASSOWITZ VERLAG, 1999. Pp. xxix + 608. DM 198 (paper). The present work, a revised version of the...

Domination and Resistance: Egyptian Military Activity in the Southern Levant ca. 1300-1185 B.C.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Domination and Resistance: Egyptian Military Activity in the Southern Levant Ca. 1300-1185 B.C. By MICHAEL G. HASEL. Probleme der Agyptologie, vol. 11. Leiden: BRILL, 1998. This monograph is the result of a dissertation designed to examine...

Egyptian Proper Names and Loanwords in North-West Semitic.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Egyptian Proper Names and Loanwords in North-West Semitic. By YOSHIYUKI MUCHIKI. Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series, vol. 173. Atlanta, Ga: SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE, 1999. Pp. xxv + 357. $48. This monograph is the...

Studies in Persian History: Essays in Memory of David M. Lewis.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Studies in Persian History: Essays in Memory of David M. Lewis. Edited by MARIA BROSIUS and AMELIE KUHRT. Achaemenid History, vol. 11. Leiden: NEDERLANDS INSTITUUT VOOR HET NABIJE OOSTEN, 1998. Pp. xi + 306, illus, HFI 129, $68. The...

The Bourse of Babylon: Market Quotations in the Astronomical Diaries of Babylonia.(Review)
July 1, 2001... The Bourse of Babylon: Market Quotations in the Astronomical Diaries of Babylonia. By ALICE LOUISE SLOTSKY. Bethesda, Md.: CDL PRESS, 1997. Pp. xiv + 192, illus. $42. Mit der vorliegenden Monographie zur 'Borse' von Babylon, die aus ihrer...

Studi e Testi 1.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Studi e Testi 1. Edited by S. DE MARTINO and F. IMPARATI. Eothen, vol. 9. Florence: LOGISMA, 1998. Pp. 199 (paper). With volume 9 the monographic series Eothen begins a new subseries, Studi e Testi, each volume of which will present an...

Hittite Diplomatic Texts.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Hittite Diplomatic Texts. Second edition. By GARY BECKMAN. Writings from the Ancient World, vol. 7. Atlanta: SCHOLARS PRESS, 1999. Pp. xx + 224 (paper). The book under review is the second edition of a series of translations by one of the...

Essays on Ancient Anatolia.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Essays on Ancient Anatolia. Edited by PRINCE TAKAHITO MIKASA. Bulletin of the Middle East Culture Center in Japan, vol. 11. Wiesbaden: HARRASSOWITZ VERLAG, 1999. Pp. viii + 244, photos, illus. DM 128. This is the final number in the series...

The Power and the Writing: The Early Scribes of Mesopotamia.(Review)
July 1, 2001... The Power and the Writing: The Early Scribes of Mesopotamia. By GIUSEPE VISICATO. Bethesda, Md.: CDL PRESS, 2000. Pp. xvii + 298. $50. "Although he [Dub-hul-tar] is mentioned as an agrig only in a dumu-dumu conscription text, he is in fact...

Akhenaten and the Religion of Light.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Akhenaten and the Religion of Light. By ERIK HORNUNG. Translated by David Lorton. Ithaca: CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1999. Pp. xii + 146. $29.95. This short and eminently readable translation of Erik Hornung's 1995 volume, Echnaton: Die...

The Archaeology of Elam: Formation and Transformation of the Ancient Iranian State.(Review)
July 1, 2001... The Archaeology of Elam: Formation and Transformation of the Ancient Iranian State. By D. T. POTTS. Cambridge: CAMBRIDGE UNIV. PRESS, 1999. Pp. xxviii + 490, illus. $85 (cloth); $37.95 (paper). According to the "core-periphery" concept of...

Introducing tosefta: Textual, Intratextual and Intertextual Studies.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Introducing Tosefta: Textual, Intratextual and Intertextual Studies. Edited by HARRY FOX and TIRZAH MEACHAM. Hoboken, N.J.: KTAV PUBLISHING HOUSE, 1999. Pp. xix + 340. $79.50. The present volume originated in an April 1993 conference on the...

Definitely: Egyptian Literature; proceedings of the Symposium "Ancient Egyptian Literature; history and forms," los angeles, march 24-26, 1995.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Definitely: Egyptian Literature. Proceedings of the Symposium "Ancient Egyptian Literature: History and Forms," Los Angeles, March 24-26, 1995. Edited by GERALD MOERS. Lingua Aegyptiaca. Studia Monographica, vol. 2. Gottingen: SEMINAR FUR...

History and Historical Writing in Ancient Israel: Studies in Biblical Historiography.(Review)
July 1, 2001... History and Historical Writing in Ancient Israel: Studies in Biblical Historiography. By TOMOO ISHIDA. Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East, vol. 16. Leiden: BRILL, 1999. Pp. xiv + 219. Hfl 127, $75. This book is a...

Mehri Texts from Oman (Based on Field Materials of T. M. Johnstone).(Review)
July 1, 2001... Mehri Texts from Oman (Based on Field Materials of T. M. Johnstone). By HARRY STROOMER. Semitica Viva, vol. 22. Wiesbaden: HARRASSOWITZ VERLAG, 1999. Pp. xxvii + 303. DM 168 (paper). The late Thomas Muir Johnstone (1924-1983), Professor of...

Bir Umm Fawakhir Survey Project 1993: A Byzantine Gold-Mining Town in Egypt.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Bir Umm Fawakhir Survey Project 1993: A Byzantine Gold-Mining Town in Egypt. By C. MEYER, L. A. HEIDORN, W. E. KAEGI, and T. WILFONO. Oriental Institute Communications, vol. 28. Chicago: THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO,...

Rabbinische texte als gegenstand der auslegung: gesammelte studien, vol. 2.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Rabbinische Texte als Gegenstand der Auslegung: Gesammelte Studien, vol. 2. By ARNOLD GOLDBERG. Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum, vol. 73. Tubingen: MOHR SIBEECK, 1999. Pp. viii + 463. DM 278. This volume containing nineteen essays is...

The Upright Brush: Yan Zhenqing's Calligraphy and Song Literati Politics.(Review)
July 1, 2001... The Upright Brush: Yan Zhenqing's Calligraphy and Song Literati Politics. By AMY McNAIR. Honolulu: UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII PRESS, 1998. Pp. 177, illus. Recent years have witnessed growing maturity and sophistication in Western studies of...

A Jewel in Indra's Net: The letter sent by fazang in china to uisang in Korea.(Review)
July 1, 2001... A Jewel in Indra's Net Tire Letter Sent by Fazang in china to Uisang in Korea. By ANTONINO FORTE. Occasional Papers, no. 8. Kyoto: ITALIAN SCHOOL OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES, 2000. Pp. viii + 109, illus. (paper). The most recent publication of...

World-Maps for Finding the Direction and Distance to Mecca: Innovation and Tradition in Islamic Science.(Review)
July 1, 2001... World-Maps for Finding the Direction and Distance to Mecca: Innovation and Tradition in Islamic Science. By DAVID A. KING. London and Leiden: AL-FURQAN ISLAMIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION and BRILL, 1999. Pp. xxix + 638. This book is a personal...

The King's Dictionary: The Rasulid Hexaglot: Fourteenth Century Vocabularies in Arabic, Persian, Turkic, Greek, Armenian and Mongol.(Review)
July 1, 2001... The King's Dictionary: The Rasulid Hexaglot: Fourteenth Century Vocabularies in Arabic, Persian, Turkic, Greek, Armenian and Mongol. Translated by TIBOR HALASI-KUN, PETER B. GOLDEN, LOUIS LIGETI, and EDMUND SCHUTZ, with Introductory essays by...

The Buddha From Dolpo: A study of the Life and Thought of the Tibetan Master Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen.(Review)
July 1, 2001... The Buddha from Dolpo: A Study of the Life and Thought of the Tibetan Master Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen. By CYRUS STEARNS. SUNY Series in Buddhist Studies. Albany: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, 1999. Pp. xi + 318. $20.95 (paper). The...

Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and Other Indo-Aryan Languages.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in sanskrit, Prakrit, and Other Indo-Aryan Languages. By RICHARD SALOMON. New York: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1998. Pp. xxi + 378, figs., maps. $65. The book, aptly dedicated to the...

Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara: The British Library Kharosthi Fragments.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara: The British Library Kharosthi Fragments. By RICHARD SALOMON. Seattle: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS, 1999. Pp. xx + 273, plates, figs., maps. $55 (cloth); $40 (paper). In 1994 five clay pots and...

Rediscovering god with transcendental argument: a contemporary interpretation of monistic kashmiri saiva philosopity.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Rediscovering God with Transcendental Argument: A Contemporary Interpretation of Monistic Kashmiri Saiva Philosopity. By DAVID PETER LAWRENCE. Toward a Comparative Philosophy of Religions. Albany: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, 1999. Pp....

Acting as a Way of Salvation: A Study of Raganuga Bhakti Sadhana. & Journey through the Twelve Forests: An Encounter with Krishna.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Acting as a Way of Salvation: A Study of Raganuga Bhakti Sadhana. By DAVID L. HABERMAN. New York: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1988. Pp. xv + 211. $29.95. Journey through the Twelve Forests: An Encounter with Krishna. By DAVID L. HABERMAN. New...

Parallele Texte im Tocharischen und ihre Bewertung.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Parallele Texte im Tocharischen und ihre Bewertung. By WERNER THOMAS. Sitzungsberichte der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main, vol. 30, no. 5. Stuttgart: FRANZ STEINER VERLAG, 1993. Pp....

The SBL handbook of style for ancient near eastern, biblical, and early christian studies.(Review)
July 1, 2001... The SBL Handbook of Style for Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and Early Christian Studies. Edited by PATRICK H. ALEXANDER, JOHN F. KUTSKO, JAMES D. ERNEST, SHIRLEY A. DECKER-LUCKE, and DAVID L. PETERSEN. Peabody, Mass.: HENDRICKSON PUBLISHERS,...

Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship. By BRUCE LINCOLN. Chicago: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, 1999. Pp. xvi + 298. $59 (cloth); $24 (paper). Bruce Lincoln is one of America's foremost practitioners of comparative...

Baalbek: Im bann romischer monumentalarchitektur.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Baalbek: Im Bann romischer Monumentalarchitektur. Edited by M. VAN Ess and TH. WEBER. Sonderbande der Antike Welt. Mainz: PHILIPP VON ZABERN, 1999. Pp. viii + 151, illus. DM 78. This beautiful volume celebrates the renewed access of...

Weltende.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Weltende. Edited by ADAM JONES. Beitrage zur Kultur--und Religionswissenschaft. Wiesbaden: HARRASSOWITZ VERLAG, 1999. Pp. viii + 247. DM 58 (paper). Growing out of a team-taught course at Leipzig University in 1996, this volume presents...

Realia Dei: Essays in Archaeology and Biblical Interpretation in Honor of Edward F. Campbell, Jr. at His Retirement.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Realia Dei: Essays in Archaeology and Biblical Interpretation in Honor of Edward F. Campbell, Jr. at His Retirement. Edited by PRESCOTT H. WILLIAMS and THEODORE HIEBERT. Atlanta: SCHOLARS PRESS, 1999. Pp. xii + 270, illustrations. $49.95. ...

Uruk: Spatbabylonische Texte aus dem Planquadral U l, Teil V.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Uruk: Spatbabylonische Texte aus dem Planquadrat U l, Teil V. By EGBERT VON WEIHER. Augrabungen in Uruk Warka: Endberichte, vol. 13. Mainz: PHILIPP VON ZABERN, 1998. Pp. vii + 199. DM 120. During the 1969 and 1970-71 campaigns in the great...

Zion, City of Our God.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Zion, City of Our God. Edited by RICHARD S. HESS and GORDON J. WENHAM. Grand Rapids, Mich.: WILLIAM B. EERDMANS PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1999. Pp. x + 206. $22 (paper). This recent anthology, which "grew out of a special meeting of the Tyndale...

Chinese.(British Museum's Reading the Past series)(Review)
July 1, 2001... Chinese. By OLIVER MOORE. Reading the Past. London: BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS, 2000. Pp. 80, illus., figs. [pounds sterling]8.99 (paper). After issuing small volumes on cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Linear B, Greek inscriptions, Etruscan,...

Inventing China Through History: The May Fourth Approach to Historiography.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Inventing China Through History: The May Fourth Approach to Historiography. By Q. EDWARD WANG. SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture. Albany: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, 2000. Pp. 304. $21.95 (paper). I know of colleagues...

Early Medieval China 6 (2000).(Review)
July 1, 2001... Early Medieval China 6 (2000). Edited by CYNTHIA L. CHENNAULT. Gainesville: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, for the EARLY MEDIEVAL CHINA GROUP, INC. Pp. 166. $20 (annual dues). Early Medieval China is the annual journal of the Early Medieval China...

Eunuchs, Caliphs and Sultans: A Study of Power Relationships.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Eunuchs, Caliphs and Sultans: A Study of Power Relationships. By DAVID AYALON. Jerusalem: MAGNES PRESS, THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY, 1999. Pp. xi + 376. $38. David Ayalon's last book, published posthumously, deals with the institution of slaves...

An annotated bibliography on ibn sina: first supplement (1990-1994).(Review)
July 1, 2001... An Annotated Bibliography on Ibn Sina: First Supplement (1990-1994). By JULES L. JANSSENS. Textes et etudes du Moyen Age, vol. 12. Louvain-la-Neuve: FEDERATION INTERNATIONALE DES INSTITUTS D'ETUDES MEDIEVALES, 1999. Pp. xvii + 218. BeF 990.57;...

dBu ma shar gsum gyi ston thun.(Review)
July 1, 2001... dBu ma shar gsum gyi ston thun. By PHYA PA CHOS KYI SEN GE. Edited by HELMUT TAUSCHER. Wiener Studien zu Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde, vol. 43. Vienna: ARBEITSKREIS FUR TIBETISHE UND BUDDHISTISCHE STUDIEN, UNIVERSITAT WIEN, 1999. Pp. xxxiii...

Moha-subhasita-samagraha, vol. 7.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Moha-subhasita-samagraha, vol. 7. Edited by S. BI-IASKARAN NAIR. Based on a compilation begun by LUDWIK STERNBACH. Vishveshvaranand Indological Series, no. 83. Hoshiarpur: VISHVESHVARANAND VEDIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE, 1999. Pp. xiv + 670. ...

Ecological and Agrarian Regions of South Asia circa 1930.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Ecological and Agrarian Regions of South Asia circa 1930. Edited by DANIEL THORNER. Based on a monograph by CHEN HAN-SENG. Karachi: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1996. Pp. xiii + 148. This large-format (ca. 12" x 17") statistical atlas is...

Beyond Orientalism: The Work of Wilhelm Halbfass and its Impact on Indian and Cross-Cultural Studies.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Beyond Orientalism: The Work of Wilhelm Halbfass and Its Impact on Indian and Cross-Cultural Studies. Edited by ELI FRANCO and KARIN PREISENDANZ. Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, vol. 59. Amsterdam: RODOPI,...

The Collected Essays of A. K. Ramanujan.(Review)
July 1, 2001... The Collected Essays of A. K. Ramanujan. Edited by VINAY DHARWADKER. New Delhi: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1999. Pp. xviii + 638. Rs 995. Welcome indeed is this Gesamtpublikation of A. K. Ramanujan's shorter articles and essays--some never...

Nydyasudha of Sri Jayatirtha, vol. 2.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Nydyasudha of Sri Jayatirtha, vol. 2. Translated by B. N. K. SHARMA. Basavanagudi: VISVA MADHVA MAHAPARISAT, 2000. Pp. xvii + 316. Rs 150, $20 (paper). The indefatigable and seemingly indestructible B. N. K. Sharma (b. 1909), doyen of...