The Journal of the American Oriental Society articles from October 2002

The Journal of the American Oriental Society archives from October 2002

Primary education in Sanskrit: methods and goals *.
October 1, 2002... A TRUISM INDOLOGISTS OFTEN RESORT TO is that the are of traditional India is in many respects situated vis-a-vis our own as its opposite pole. On the one hand, we find a system of seemingly fixed castes that determines ones social persona as a...

Lexical changes in Zhanguo texts.
October 1, 2002... THREE QUARTERS OF A CENTURY AGO Bernhard Karlgren undertook a bold attempt to analyze grammatical differences among major pre-imperial texts in order to verify their dating and authenticity. His studies, among which the article "On the...

Common Chinese and early Chinese morphology.
October 1, 2002... 1. INTRODUCTION THIS PAPER CONSIDERS some modern dialect data that is relevant to the question of morphology in early Chinese. (1) Morphology consists of the principles governing word formation, especially the processes of inflection...

Notes a propos de la walaya imamite (aspects de l'imamologie duodecimaine, X).
October 1, 2002... LA WALAYA ET LE CORAN SI ON SE FONDE sur les plus anciennes sources imamites parvenues jusqu'a nous, c'est-a-dire des sources principalement d'epoque pre-bouyide, on peut se rendre compte que pour les shiites, ou tout au moins un nombre...

The Chaghadaids and Islam: the conversion of Tarmashirin Khan (1331-34).
October 1, 2002... TARMASHIRIN, the CHAGHADAID KHAN whose conversion paved the way to the overall Islamization of the Chaghadaids, is an enigmatic figure. While Arabic, Persian, and Turkic sources stress the importance of his islamization to the establishment of...

A bibliographical list of cuneiform inscriptions from Canaan, Palestine/Philistia, and the land of Israel.
October 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION TODAY WE ARE ABLE to place eighty-nine objects in our corpus. These range from well-known texts such as the Taanach letters, which have been studied and translated a number of times (Taanach 1-2, 5-6), to mere scraps of clay,...

Chinese food science and culinary history: a new study.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... THIS LARGE TOME is a most welcome contribution to the study of Chinese food science and culinary history. The author, Huang Hsing-tsung [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], served as Joseph Needham's secretary in Chongqing in the early 1940s. He...

Ghazali and the perils of interpretation.
October 1, 2002... ABU HAMID AL-GHAZALI (d. 505/1111) is one of the celebrated thinkers of Arabo-Islamic culture. The and high quality of his prolific intellectual career most celebrated thinkers of Arabo-Islamic culture. The scope and high quality of his...

On drums and strings and trumpet blasts.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... THIS IMPRESSIVE BOOK'S CHAPTERS are divided into numbered sections, and the illustrations are numbered accordingly, e.g., "plate III/2-4" indicates chapter III, section 2, fourth illustration. Chapter I, the introduction, traces the history of...

Notes on a new volume of old Assyrian texts.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... THIS LARGE, RICH, AND WELL-EDITED volume is an important and most welcome contribution to Old Assyrian studies. The complete and reliable edition, with cuneiform copies, transliterations, translations, notes, and indices, of nearly 350 mostly...

Sentential complementation in Akkadian.
October 1, 2002... SCHEMATIC SUMMARY GUY DEUTSCHER'S RECENT BOOK comprises a number of studies that treat different facets of sentential complementation in Akkadian. Following a short introductory chapter, the second chapter is a general discussion of the...

A new Coptic grammar.
October 1, 2002... SPOKEN IN EGYPT alongside the Greek of the upper classes from the early first millennium A.D., written mostly with Greek characters instead of the hieroglyphic signs of earlier stages of Egyptian, gradually replaced in daily usage by Arabic...

Reconsidering a Phoenician inscribed amulet from the vicinity of Tyre (1).(Brief Communications)
October 1, 2002... THE AMULET The purpose of this brief paper is to reconsider the form, iconography, and text of a bronze amulet with a Phoenician inscription published by Helene Sader. (2) The amulet, from a private collection in Beirut, (3) is a thin (1...

The West Semitic/peripheral Akkadian term for "lung".(Brief Communications)
October 1, 2002... The Sa vocabulary list from Emar (Emar 537) presents in one of its more complete copies the Akkadian sequence for the Sumerian value HAR, (1) as set out in Table 1. This article is concerned with how to translate the sixth entry of this...

Soul and reason in literary criticism: deconstructing the deconstructionists.(Brief Communciations)
October 1, 2002... I begin with a poem: Sonnet to a Postmodernist --variation on the 43rd Sonnet from the Portuguese How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways. I hate thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach--and yes,...

The Korean Language.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By IKSOP LEE and S. ROBERT RAMSEY. SUNY Series in Korean Studies. Albany: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, 2000. Pp. 374, figs., tables. $23.95 (paper). The title page of this important contribution to Korean linguistic studies is a...

The Cambridge History of Japan, volume 2: Heian Japan.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Edited by DONALD H. SHIVELY and WILLIAM H. MCCULLOUGH. Cambridge: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1999. Pp. xxxv + 754, maps, figs., tables. $120. I must begin this review on a personal note, for I cannot claim to be completely disinterested....

The Animal and the Daemon in Early China.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By ROEL STERCKX. SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture. Albany: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, 2002. Pp. ix + 375. $92.50 (cloth); $34.95 (paper). "This book examines animals in early China, not the animal that forms the...

A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By DAVID SCHABERG. Harvard East Asian Monographs, no. 205. Cambridge, Mass.: HARVARD UNIVERSITY ASIA CENTER, 2001. Pp. xvi + 503. $50. This is an exhausting and exhaustive book. The "past" that David Schaberg is concerned with is the...

Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By SHIH-SHAN HENRY TSAI. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. Pp. 270, illus. $32.50. Having presented a remarkably sympathetic picture of eunuchs in Eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty to counterbalance the stereotype of scheming,...

A Bushel of Pearls: Painting for Sale in Eighteenth-Century Yangchow.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By GINGER CHENG-CHI HSU. Stanford: STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2001. Pp. 314, illus. $49.50. The title of Ginger Cheng-chi Hsu's excellent book will conjure up for many readers memories of "The Eight Eccentrics of Yangchow." Coined in the...

Translation in Hong Kong: Past, Present and Future.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Edited by CHAN SIN-WAI. Hung Kong: CHINESE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2001. Pp. xv + 282. $19.50. [Distributed by University of Michigan Press.] U.S. President Bush mocks Americans who even attempt to speak French. In most of the world, including...

Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light: Wang Tai-yu's Great Learning of the Pure and Real and Liu Chih's Displaying the Concealment of the Real Realm.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By SACHIKO MURATA. With a new translation of Jami's Lawa'ih from the Persian by William C. Chittick. Albany: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, 2000. Pp. xiv + 264. The past two decades have seen a stow, but steady, growth of studies...

History of Islamic Philosophy.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Edited by SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR and OLIVER LEAMAN. Routledge History of World Philosophies, vol. 1. New York: ROUTLEDGE, 2001. Pp. xx + 1211. $60 (paper). The word "mammoth" comes to mind when describing Seyyed Hossein Nasr's and Oliver...

Ibrahim ibn Sinan: Logique et geometrie au Xe siecle.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By ROSHDI RASHED and HELENE BELLOSTA. Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science: Texts and Studies, vol. 42. Leiden: BRILL, 2000. Pp. ix + 809. In this hefty tome, the authors have provided editions, translations, and technical commentaries...

al-Juwayni's Thought and Methodology, with a Translation and Commentary on Luma al-Adilla.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... by MOHAMMAD MOSLEM ADEL SAFLO. Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, vol. 227. Berlin: KLAUS SCHWARZ VERLAG, 2000. Pp. 377. In recent years, the importance of the Ash arite theologian Abu l-Ma ali al-Juwayni (419-478/1028-85) has become more and...

Al-Ghazali, The Niche of Lights: A Parallel English-Arabic Text.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By DAVID BUCHMAN. Islamic Translation Series. Provo: BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1998. Pp. xxx + 80 (in English) + 53 (in Arabic). $24.95. Al-Ghazali's Mishkat al-anwar has often been considered his most enigmatic book. Regarded as one...

Maimonides' Empire of Light: Popular Enlightenment in an Age of Belief.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By RALPH LERNER, Chicago: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, 2000, Pp. 221, $35. Maimonides (1135-1204) a figure of enlightenment? Well, not exactly in the sense of the eighteenth-century Enlighteners, but as a popular instructor who brought...

Hebrew Scholarship and the Medieval World.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Edited by NICHOLAS DE LANGE. Cambridge: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2001. Pp. xiv + 247. $59.95. There is an ambiguity in the title of the present volume: does the book concern the Hebrew scholarship of the medievals? or contemporary...

Persepolis: Glanzende Haupstadt der Perserreichs.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By HEIDEMARIE KOCH. Zaberns Bilderbande zur Archaologie. Mainz: VERLAG PHLLIPP VON ZABERN, 2001. Pp. 106, illus. 34.77 [euro]. Fascination with the Achaemenid palatial complex at Persepolis among professional researchers and laymen alike...

Adapa and the South Wind: Language Has the Power of Life and Death.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By SHLOMO IZRE'EL. Mesopotamian Civilizations, vol. 10. Winona Lake, Ind.: EISENBRAUNS, 2001. Pp. xii + 172, plates. $36.50. Despite its small compass, the Adapa story has accumulated an imposing array of treatments and interpretations. No...

The Synchronisation of Civilisations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium B.C.: Proceedings of an International Symposium at Schloss Haindorf, 15th-17th of November 1996 and at the Austrian Academy, Vienna, 11th-12th of May 1998.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Edited by MANFRED BIETAK. Vienna: VERLAG DER OSTERREICHISCHEN AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN, 2000. Pp. 179, tables. OS 627 (paper). Chronology, both relative and absolute, occupies a favored position in studies of the second millennium B.C....

Herrschaftswissen in Mesopotamien: Formen der Kommunikation zwischen Gott and Konig im 2. und 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By BEATE PONGRATZ-LEISTEN. State Archives of Assyria Studies, vol. 10. Helsinki: THE NEO-ASSYRIAN TEXT CORPUS PROJECT, 1999. Pp. xvi + 392. $59.50 (paper). This book deals with the role of divination and other forms of communication...

Hurritisch: Eine Einfuhrung.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By ILSE WEGNER. Wiesbaden: HARRASSOWITZ VERLAG, 2000. Pp. 265. DM 128 (paper). Spatestens seit der Erscheinung yon L. Messerschmidts "Mitanni-Studien" im Jahre 1899 (MVAeG 4.4) kann das Hurritische als entsehlusselt gelten. Vollstandig...

Das syro-hethitische Grabdenkmal.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By DOMINIK BONATZ. Mainz: VERLAG PHILIPP VON ZABERN, 2000. Pp. vi + 232, plates. DM 118. Funerary monuments are the most striking, and indeed characteristic, material remnants of the "Neo-Hittite" successor states of early Iron Age Syria....

International Relations in the Ancient Near East, 1600-1100 BC.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By MARIO LIVERANI. Studies in Diplomacy. New York: PALGRAVE, 2001. Pp. xvii + 241, maps. $68. The present volume represents a substantial revision of the author's Prestige and Interest (Padua, 1990), itself a summation of more than thirty...

A Sketch of Neo-Assyrian Grammar.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By JAAKKO HAMEEN-ANTTILA. State Archives of Assyria Studies, vol. 13. Helsinki: THE NEO-ASSYRIAN TEXT CORPUS PROJECT, 2000. Pp. xiv + 174. $32.50 (paper). It is in the nature of a "sketch" to present a basic overview of essential facts,...

Ur III-Texte der St. Petersburger Ermitage.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By NATALIA KOSLOVA. SANTAG vol. 6. Wiesbaden: HARRASSOWITZ VERLAG, 2000. Pp. 415. DM 104. The handsome volume under review presents transliterations of 385 Ur III texts from Umma that form part of the extensive collection (approximately...

Neo-Sumerian Archival Texts in the Nies Babylonian Collection.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By MARCEL SIGRIST. Catalogue of the Babylonian Collection at Yale, vol. 3. Edited by Ulla Kasten. Bethesda, Md.: CDL PRESS, 2001. Pp. vii + 312. $48. The book under review represents the third publication of the commendable project of...

Proceedings of the XLVe Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale. Two Volumes. Part I: Historiography in the Cuneiform World, Part II: Seals and Seal Impressions.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Edited by TZVI ABUSCH, PAUL-ALAIN BEAULIEU, JOHN HUEHNERGARD, PETER MACHINIST, PIOTR STEINKELLER, WILLIAM W. HALLO, and IRENE WINTER; with the assistance of CAROL NOYES. Bethesda, Md.: CDL PRESS, 2001. Pp. x + 482; vi + 254. $65 (paper). ...

History of Biblical Israel: Major Problems and Minor Issues.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By ABRAHAM MALAMAT. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, vol. 7. Leiden: BRILL, 2001. Pp. XV + 476. $99. Professor Abraham Malamat, one of the preeminent scholars of biblical history, has provided a collection of twenty-six of his...

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Edited by DONALD B. REDFORD. 3 VOLS. New York: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2001. Pp. xv + 586, 624, illus. $450. The highly specialized nature of Egyptological research has traditionally posed almost insurmountable barriers to the interested...

The Graffiti of Pharaonic Egypt: Scope and Roles of Informal Writings (c. 3100-332 B.C.).(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By ALEXANDER J. PEDEN, Probleme der Agyptologie, vol. 17. Leiden: BRILL, 2001. Pp. xxii + 348. maps. $89. Although the rock inscriptions and rock depictions of Egypt and in particular Nubia have received considerable and deserved attention,...

Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology, Museums, and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By DONALD MALCOLM REID. Berkeley and Los Angeles: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 2002. Pp. xvii + 409, illus. $35. To quote the author, "The primary purpose of this book is to write modern Egyptians into the histories of... four museums...

The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By PHIROZE VASUNIA. Classics and Contemporary Thought, vol. 8. Berkeley and Los Angeles: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 2001. Pp. ix + 346. $45, 29.95 [pounds sterling]. Egypt appears already in the earliest extant Greek literature (cf....

Recherches sur l'histoire juridique, economique et sociale de l'ancienne Egypte.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... vol. 2. By BERNADETTE MENU. Cairo: INSTITUT FRANCAIS D'ARCHEOLOGIE ORIENTALE, 1998. Pp. viii + 423, illus. LE 170 (paper). This is the second volume of such studies by this author (cf. a similarly titled book, privately published in 1982)....

Necropolis I.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Edited by JEAN-YVES EMPEREUR and MARIE-DOMINIQUE NENNA. Etudes alexandrines, vol. 5. Cairo: INSTITUT FRANCAIS D'ARCHEOLOGIE ORIENTALE, 2001. Pp. vii + 527, illus. 60 [euro] (paper). This volume publishes the results of excavations carried...

Der Himmel uber Esna: Eine Fallstudie zur religiosen Astronomie in Agypten.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... BY ALEXANDRA VON LIEVEN. Agyptologische Abhandlungen, no. 64. Wiesbaden: HARRASSOWITZ VERLAG, 2000. Pp. 248, plates. DM 128 (paper). In southern Egypt, a number of monumental structures dating to Ptolemaic, Roman, and Byzantine times (ca....

Canaanites, Chronologies, and Connections: The Relationship of Middle Bronze IIA Canaan to Middle Kingdom Egypt.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By SUSAN L. COHEN. Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant, vol. 3. Winona Lake, Ind.: EISENBRAUNS, 2002. Pp. ix + 168, illus. $39.95. An outgrowth of Cohen's Harvard Ph.D. dissertation (2000), this book is a tightly focused...

At Empire's Edge: Exploring Rome's Egyptian Frontier.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By ROBERT B. JACKSON. New Haven: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2002. Pp. xxiv + 350, illus. $37.50. Egypt is for the largest part desert and throughout history humankind has penetrated deep into the region beyond the narrow strip of the fertile...

Correspondence and Dialogue: Pragmatic Factors in Late Ramesside Letter-Writing.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By DEBORAH SWEENEY. Agypten und Altes Testament, vol. 49. Wiesbaden: HARRASSOWITZ VERLAG, 2001. Pp. v + 327. DM 158 (paper). Although it might take considerable time and effort to reconstruct how conversational ancient Egyptian sounded at...

The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of the Bible.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By EUGENE ULRICH. Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature, vol. 1. Grand Rapids, Mich.: WM. B. EERDMANS PUBLISHING CO., 1999. Pp. xviii + 309. $25 (paper). Eugene Ulrich is arguably the leading textual critic of his...

Introducing Biblical Hebrew.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By ALLEN P. ROSS. Grand Rapids, Mich.: BAKER ACADEMIC, 2001. Pp. 565. $39.99. Although this is a pedagogically sound introductory textbook for Biblical Hebrew utilizing the grammar-translation method, the market for such has now become...

Das Tier im Alten Agypten.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By PHILIPPE GERMOND. Munich: HIRMER VERLAG, 2001. Pp. 223, illus. 79.76 [euro]. It is well known how important animals were in ancient Egypt, and there has been quite a bit of scholarly work done concerning different aspects of their role....

Dynamics of Diselection: Ambiguity in Genesis 12-36 and Ethnic Boundaries in Post-Exilic Judah.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By R. CHRISTOPHER HEARD. The Society of Biblical Literature Semeie Series, vol. 39. Atlanta: SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE, 2001. Pp. xii + 212. $29.95 (paper). This work explores the literary presentation of ethnicity in Genesis 12-36....

An Introduction to Aramaic.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By FREDERICK E. GREENSPAHN. Society of Biblical Literature Resources for Biblical Study, vol. 38. Atlanta: SCHOLARS PRESS, 1999. Pp. xi + 232. $54.95 (paper). Students of the Hebrew Bible are regularly required to study a semester of...

Untold Stories: the Bible and Ugaritic Studies in the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By MARK S. SMITH. Peabody, Mass.: HENDRICKSON PUBLISHERS, 2001. Pp. xix + 252. $29.95. In Untold Stories Mark Smith surveys the history of Ugaritic studies since the first alphabetic texts were published over seventy years ago. He does...

Der neuostaramaische Dialekt von Sarda:rid.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By HELEN YOUNANSARDAROUD. Semitica Viva, vol. 26. Wiesbaden: HARRASSOWITZ VERLAG, 2001. Pp. xxiv + 261. DM 144 (paper). This is another fine volume in the Semitica Viva series dedicated to the study of living Semitic languages, particularly...

The House of the Father as Fact and Symbol: Patrimonialism in Ugarit and the Ancient Near East.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By J. DAVID SCHLOEN. Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant, vol. 2. Winona Lake, Ind.: EISENBRAUNS, 2001. Pp. xv + 414. $57.50. Societies of the ancient Near East, prior to the Net-Assyrian empire, were organized according...

Invitation to the Septuagint.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By KAREN H. JOBES and MOISES SILVA. Grand Rapids, Mich.: BAKER ACADEMIC PRESS, 2000. Pp. 351. $29.99. Not many introductions to the Greek version(s) of the Hebrew Scriptures / Old Testament have appeared in the last century of scholarship....

Ancient Persia from 550 BC to 650 AD.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By JOSEF WIESEHOFER, translated by Azizeh Azodi. London: I. B. TAURIS, 2001. Pp. xiv + 332, illus. $19.95 (paper). This volume is an unrevised paperback of the original cloth version published in 1996 by the same publisher. The 1996 cloth...

Somasambhupaddhati: Rituels dans la tradition sivaite selon Somasambhu, pt. 4: Rituels optionnels: Pratistha. Texte, traduction et notes.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By HELENE BRUNNER-LACHAUX. Publications du departement d'indologie, vol. 25.4. Pondicherry: INSTITUT FRANCAIS DE PONDICHERY / ECOLE FRANCAISE D'EXTREME-ORIENT, 1998. Pp. lxviii + 514. This book is the last in a four-volume set of the...

The Theory of Nipatas (Particles) in Yaska's Nirukta.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By ASHOK AKLUJKAR. Post-graduate and Research Department series no. 42. Pandit Shripad Shastri Deodhar Memorial Lectures Sixth Series. Pane: BHANDARKAR ORIENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, 1999. Pp. iv + 107. Yaska's discussion of particles in the...

The Legend of Queen Cama: Bodhiramsi's Camadevivamsa, a Translation and Commentary.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By DONALD K. SWEARER and SOMMAI PREMCHIT. Albany: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, 1998. Pp. xv + 195. The king (cakkavattiraja) sent his daughter, Camadevi, to rule the city [of Haripunjaya]. She boarded the boat together ...

Between Tradition and Modernity, and Other Essays on the Toda of South India.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By ANTHONY R. WALKER. Delhi: B. R. PUBLISHING CORPORATION, 1998. Pp. xiv + 270, maps, figs., photos. $30. Anthony Walker is almost beyond doubt one of the best--if not the best--authorities on Toda society, in the anthropological tradition...

Controversies over Buddhist Nuns.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By BHIKKHUNI JUO-HSUEH SHIH. Oxford: PALI TEXT SOCIETY, 2000. Pp. 576. This book, a revision of the author's Oxford doctoral thesis, is an investigation of some of the textual puzzles concerning the monastic rules for nuns in the Pali...

The Hagiographies of Anantadas: the Bhakti Poets of North India.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By WINAND M. CALLEWAERT, in collaboration with Dr. SWAPNA SHARMA. Richmond, Surrey: CURZON PRESS, 2000. Pp. viii + 414. In 1588 the Ramanandi Anantadas brought together the oral legends about the "lives" of bhakti poets in North India. He...

Donors, Devotees, and Daughters of God: Temple Women in Medieval Tamilnadu.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By LESLIE C. ORR, South Asia Research, University of Texas Center for Asian Studies. New York: OXFORD UNIV. PRESS, 2000. Pp. xii + 305. $45. According to conventional wisdom, until the early part of the twentieth century, when legislation...

Parasarabhattas Tattvaratnakarah.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Parasarabhattas Tattvaratnakarah. By GERHARD OBERHAMMER. Materialen zur Geschichte der Ramanuja-Schule, pt. 1. Vienna: VERLAG DER OSTERREICHISCHEN AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFT, 1979. Pp. 258. Vatsya Varadagurus Traktar von der Tranzendenz des...

Der "Organismus" des urheberlosen Veda: Eine Studie der Niyoga-Lehre Prabhakaras mit ausgewahlten Ubersetzungen der Brhati.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By KIYOTAKA YOSHIMIZU. Publications of the De Nobili Research Library, vol. 25. Vienna: INSTITUT FUR INDOLOGIE DER UNIVERSITAT WIEN, 1997. Pp. 430. Mimamsa exegesis, argument, and theory have for millennia been recognized as decisive in...

The Guru Granth Sahib; Canon, Meaning and Authority.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By PASHAURA SINGH. New Delhi: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2000. Pp. xxiv + 318. $35. Philological analysis of the Adi Granth (AG), the most sacred work of scripture of the Sikh faith (by whose pious adherents it is referred to by the title...

Songs of the Saints from the Adi Granth.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By NIRMAL DASS. Albany: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, 2000. Pp. ix + 308. $19.95 (paper). The most sacred work of Sikh scripture, the Adi Granth (AG) (or Sri Guru Granth Sahib), redacted by the fifth Sikh guru, Arjan, in 1604, in...

Hinduism and Ecology: The Intersection of Earth, Sky, and Water.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Edited by CHRISTOPHER KEY CHAPPLE and MARY EVELYN TUCKER. Cambridge, Mass.: CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WORLD RELIGIONS, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 2000. Pp. xlix + 600, illus. This collection grew out of a conference at the Harvard University Center...

Books received.
October 1, 2002... I. Ancient Near East ABUSCH, TZVI. Mesopotamian Witchcraft: Toward a History and Understanding of Babylonian Witchcraft Beliefs and Literature. Ancient Magic and Divination, vol. 5. Leiden: Brill-Styx, 2002. Pp. xvi + 314. $87. --,...