The Journal of the American Oriental Society articles from October 1993

The Journal of the American Oriental Society archives from October 1993

Intervocalic -v- deletion in Tamil: evidence for aspect as a morphological category.
October 1, 1993... 1. LEXICAL PHONOLOGY AND TAMIL 1.1. Introduction Tamil possesses a rule of intervocalic -v- deletion that has eluded systematic attempts at formulation because of the diverse morphological and syntactic environments in which it...

Jambhala: an imperial envoy to Tibet during the late Yuan.
October 1, 1993... Two PASSAGES IN THE TWO available versions of Tshalpa Kun-dga' rdo-rje's Deb ther/gter dmar po or Hu lan debter, namely, a chronology of China's dynastic successions from the Zhou to the Tang dynasties and from the Tang to the Yuan...

Myth and authenticity: deciphering the Chu Gong Ni Bell inscription.
October 1, 1993... ACCORDING TO THE POET Qin Guan (1049-1100), strange lights attracted the local people in Jiayu district one night, late in the northern Song period. The source was a lake bank that had been exposed during a drought.(1) The people marked the spot...

Hittite zinni-, tuwarni-, zig and related matters.
October 1, 1993... IN HIS VALUABLE AND STIMULATING Studies in Hittite Historical Phonology H. Craig Melchert (1984, 114-17) makes the important observation that the stem-final vowel of Hit. zinni-zzi because of the consistent spelling -NI-IZ- (never -NE-IZ-) must...

Some proposed emendations to the text of the Koran.
October 1, 1993... In this article, eleven difficult passages in the Koran which have defied the efforts of both Muslim commentators and orientalists to explain them are interpreted as corruptions resulting from faulty copying by scribes. Emendations of the text...

Reclusion and "The Chinese Eremitic Tradition."
October 1, 1993... PAINTING AND POETRY HAVE IMMORTALIZED the image of reclusion in China as a solitary retreat in a tranquil and beneficent wilderness, a timeless moment beyond the dust and din of the mundane world. This ubiquitous image has suffused the tapestry...

Men of the Cliffs and Caves: The Development of the Chinese Eremitic Tradition to the End of the Han Dynasty.
October 1, 1993... PAINTING AND POETRY HAVE IMMORTALIZED the image of reclusion in China as a solitary retreat in a tranquil and beneficent wilderness, a timeless moment beyond the dust and din of the mundane world. This ubiquitous image has suffused the tapestry...

Luther Carrington Goodrich (1894-1986): a bibliography.
October 1, 1993... IN 1926 L. CARRINGTON GOODRICH began at Columbia University his graduate studies in Chinese history and soon joined the American Oriental Society. For the next sixty years he was a member of the Society and he promoted the study of Chinese...

Addenda to "Epigraphic Remains of Indian Traders in Egypt."
October 1, 1993... In connection with my article, "Epigraphic Remains of Indian Traders in Egypt," Journal of the American Oriental Society 111 (1991): 731-36, several relevant bibliographical items have been called to my attention by various scholars, to whom I...

Asura in Early Vedic Religion.
October 1, 1993... Students of Indo-Iranian religion have continuously puzzled over a two-pronged problem: (1) In the older Indian Rigveda the term asura is applied to several powerful and beneficent gods who merit equal if not greater respect than their divine...

The Indra Hymns of the Rgveda.
October 1, 1993... This work is not a translation and commentary but rather an attempt to analyze the form and contents of the Indra hymns of the RV. As such the book does not succeed because it is marred by the late Prof. Gonda's characteristically discursive...

Die Fragesatze im Rgveda.
October 1, 1993... Despite the interesting position that question sentences occupy in most languages, it is remarkable that no comprehensive study of them in Sanskrit has been undertaken before the current study. The book under review helps to remedy the need by...

The Bharadvajas in Ancient India.
October 1, 1993... The Bharadvaja family are the traditional poets of the hymlmost homophonous King Marutta, whom Brhaspati served as a priest and whom Bharata might have consulted. Sarmah's full reconstruction is more complex, but the method is clear....

The Mandukya Upanisad and the Agama Sastra: An Investigation into the Meaning of the Vedanta.
October 1, 1993... In manuscripts, the Mandukya Upanisad (MaU) is normally embedded in a short text of 29 verses or karikas, which comprises its earliest commentary. Together the upanisad and the karikas form the Agamaprakarana (AP), the first of four sections of...

The Ravenous Hyenas and the Wounded Sun: Myth and Ritual in Ancient India.
October 1, 1993... This crucial work significantly advances our understanding not only of what Vedic myths mean but also of how they mean. Two myths, or rather two complexes of stories and related rituals, provide the case studies that Jamison uses to open up the...

Sanskrit-Texte aus dem buddhistischen Kanon: Neuentdeckungen und Neueditionen.
October 1, 1993... This publication contains the following Sanskrit canonical texts: (1) Sanskrit fragments from the Samyuktagama discovered in Bamiyan and Eastern Turkestan, edited and translated by F. Enomoto. These two fragments, editors. One major aim...

Le Tantra de Svayambhu, vidyapada, avec le commentaire de Sadyojyoti: Edition et traduction.
October 1, 1993... The Svayambhuvasutrasamgraha (SvSS) is an alternative title for a text elsewhere known as Svayambhuvagama. It is listed as one of the 28 "classical" agamas of Saivism, but so far it has been little noticed by scholars, despite the increased...

Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia.
October 1, 1993... Scholarly activity in the Indological world in recent years has given evidence of a renewed interest in the study of the Ramayana in many of its numerous versions. Publication of works such as the ongoing translation of the critical edition of...

Ramayana and Ramayanas.
October 1, 1993... Scholarly activity in the Indological world in recent years has given evidence of a renewed interest in the study of the Ramayana in many of its numerous versions. Publication of works such as the ongoing translation of the critical edition of...

Devotional Hindi Literature: A Critical Edition of the Panc-Vani or Five Works of Dadu, Kabir, Namdev, Raidas, Hardas with the Hindi Songs of Gorakhnath and Sundardas, and a Complete Word-index, 2 vols.
October 1, 1993... This two-volume set will be of use to anyone interested in early Hindi language and literature, especially the work of the Sant poets. The first volume contains the Devanagari text of the collected songs (pad) and didactic couplets (sakhi) of...

A History of Japanese Literature, vol. 3: The High Middle Ages.
October 1, 1993... This third installment of Konishi Jin'ichi's ambitious work, A History of Japanese Literature, follows the pattern of his two earlier volumes in every respect. Once again, the narrative is structured around a series of oppositions - most...

Sopher Mahir: Northwest Semitic Studies Presented to Stanislav Segert.
October 1, 1993... Stanislav Segert has put all Semitists in his debt with his outstanding grammars of three languages of the Northwest Semitic group: Aramaic, Phoenician, and Ugaritic. To repay a portion of that debt, an international group of Segert's students...

Le Papyrus de Nesmin: Un Livre des Morts hieroglyphique de l'epoque ptolemaique, vol. 10.
October 1, 1993... With the death of Jacques Jean Clere on June 5, 1989, Egyptology lost one of its greatest philologists and grammarians. A dedicated student and teacher, J. J. Clere made many and significant contributions to the field, his books and articles...

Mantik in Ugarit: Keilalphabetische Texte der Opferschau, Omensammlungen, Nekromantie.
October 1, 1993... Non-mythological Ugaritic texts are finally beginning to get the serious scholarly attention they deserve. The present volume contains detailed studies of the Ugaritic liver- and lung-model texts; of the Ugaritic version of what is known in...

The Roads and Highways of Ancient Israel.
October 1, 1993... This volume contains three sections. The first addresses the nature and use of roads in the ancient Near East and the classical world. The third considers terminology used in the Hebrew Bible to describe roads. The second and largest part...

Der ugaritische Kausativstamm und die Kausativbildungen des Semitischen: Eine morphologisch-semantische Untersuchung zum S-Stamm und zu den umstrittenen nichtsibilantischen Kausativstammen des Ugaritischen.
October 1, 1993... In the early years of Ugaritology it was commonplace to claim that the normal causative stem in Ugaritic was surely hafel or afel, whereas the numerous plainly causative forms with initial s- were cultic terms borrowed from Akkadian. Since...

The Fabric of History: Text, Artifact and Israel's Past.
October 1, 1993... One does not without trepidation break open a volume containing six essays on how to reconstruct Israelite history. Few subjects offer an interested reader so little opportunity for improvement as the theory of how to recover the past,...

Sedeq and Sedaqah in the Hebrew Bible.
October 1, 1993... A number of Hebrew nouns occur in both masculine and feminine forms, with no apparent difference in meaning. Ho's book examines the Biblical attestations of esm and vesm and challenges N. Snaith's claim that the choice of one over the other "is a...

Rucklaufiges Worterbuch des Akkadischen.
October 1, 1993... Electronic data processing has made the task of producing reverse dictionaries easier. A reverse dictionary had been prepared as early as 1873 for the language of the Rigveda, and others, such as for Latin and Greek, all produced by means of...

Eighteenth Century Egypt: The Arabic Manuscript Sources.
October 1, 1993... Eighteenth Century Egypt: The Arabic Manuscript Sources does not present, as the title may suggest, an overview of Egyptian manuscripts of the eighteenth century, but assembles nine articles dealing with the history of Egyptian historiography...

Al-Damurdashi's Chronicle of Egypt: 1688-1755, vol. 2.
October 1, 1993... Eighteenth Century Egypt: The Arabic Manuscript Sources does not present, as the title may suggest, an overview of Egyptian manuscripts of the eighteenth century, but assembles nine articles dealing with the history of Egyptian historiography...

The Intimate Life of an Ottoman Statesman: Melek Ahmed Pasha (1588-1662) as Portrayed by Evliya Celebi's Book of Travels.
October 1, 1993... Evliya Celebi never ceases to amaze. His 10-volume Seyahatname, in unfurling the panorama of the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century, defies genres. It is geography and history, sociology and literature, data bank and euhemerism. Its...

The History of al-Tabari, vols. 27, 29, 30, 32, 33.
October 1, 1993... From a thematic point of view, Tabari's famous History of the Prophets and Kings, the whole of which is now being published in an English translation totaling 38 volumes, consists of three parts: semi-legendary accounts of pre-Islamic rulers and...

The History of al-Tabari, vols. 34-38.
October 1, 1993... The period covered by the volumes under review runs from A.H. 227/841-42 A.D. to 302/914-15, that is, from the accession of the Caliph al-Wathiq to the early years of al-Muqtadir. Tabari's history, entitled the Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk, began...

The Early Islamic Monuments of al-Haram al-Sharif: An Iconographic Study.
October 1, 1993... Since the early 1970s, Myriam Rosen-Ayalon has directed the survey of all the monuments on the Haram (noble enclosure), sponsored by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Her monograph involves only the structures of the Umayyad period...

Islamic Art.
October 1, 1993... Islamic Art is an introduction to the subject geared to the general public or beginning student. The book is divided into eight chapters which are arranged chronologically and geographically and has in addition an introductory and concluding...

The Sea of Precious Virtues (Bahr al-Favaid): A Medieval Islamic Mirror for Princes.
October 1, 1993... The nagging query that persists as one reads Julie Meisami's admirably fluent, scrupulous and thorough translation of the 12th-century Persian text, the Bahr al-Fava id (The Sea of Precious Virtues), is the taxonomic one. The cover announces...

Politics and Excellence: The Political Philosophy of Alfarabi.
October 1, 1993... Galston has made a solid contribution to Farabian studies in this book. She commences with a chapter on Alfarabi's method of writing, and proceeds on the basis of conclusions reached in the initial chapter to discuss his views concerning "the...

Arabic Adeni Textbook.
October 1, 1993... Arabic Adeni Textbook (AAT) is designed to serve primarily as a language text for learners who have had "some background" in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and who will be engaged in acquiring a conversational tool in Adeni Arabic. We are not...

Arabic Adeni Reader.
October 1, 1993... Arabic Adeni Textbook (AAT) is designed to serve primarily as a language text for learners who have had "some background" in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and who will be engaged in acquiring a conversational tool in Adeni Arabic. We are not told...

Proceedings of the Colloquium on Arabic Grammar, Budapest, 1-7 September 1991.
October 1, 1993... This volume is the result of a conference held in Budapest in 1991. Its title carries the conference title; it is dedicated, appropriately in my view, to the memory of the well-known Hungarian Islamicist and University of Budapest student and...

The Origins of the Ottoman Empire.
October 1, 1993... The appearance of a version in English of a short book of essays, the primary purpose of which was, at the time of its first publication in French in 1935, to refute then current historiographic trends and interpretations of Ottoman history,...

Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature.
October 1, 1993... Yet another translation prepared under the auspices of PROTA (Project of Translation from Arabic), this anthology is unique in many ways. It is not only a testament to the indefatigable efforts and resourcefulness of PROTA's founder and director,...

Arabicus Felix, Luminosus Britannicus: Essays in Honour of A. F. L. Beeston on his Eightieth Birthday.
October 1, 1993... This is a celebration of the Oriental interests of Professor A. F. L. Beeston, a Festschrift to mark his eightieth birthday. In essence, the book is fittingly Oxford University's tribute, being edited by Alan Jones, being number 11 in the...

On Justice: An Essay in Jewish Philosophy.
October 1, 1993... This book, as its subtitle indicates, attempts to present Judaism's teachings on justice and related themes from a philosophical perspective. The controlling factor in the discourse is a putatively objective conceptualization of nature and of...