The Journal of the American Oriental Society articles from October 2003

The Journal of the American Oriental Society archives from October 2003

In memoriam: Derk Bodde (1909-2003); President of the Society, 1968-69.(Obituary)
October 1, 2003... Derk Bodde, Emeritus Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and president of the American Oriental Society in 1968-69, passed away on 3 November 2003 in Philadelphia. As perhaps the last of the great Sinologists, Bodde's...

Arabic dialect history and historical linguistic mythology.
October 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION Studies of spoken Arabic have been dominated by descriptions of individual dialects, dialect atlases and corpus-based sociolinguistic studies. There have been few attempts to apply principles of historical linguistics...

Rethinking the Hittite system of subordinate countries from the legal point of view.
October 1, 2003... The Hittite system of subordinate countries is better known to us than any other similar system that existed in the ancient Near East. Thanks to the relatively rich corpus of Hittite subordination treaties and related documents, we have a...

Myth, ritual, and order in "Enki and the world order".
October 1, 2003... "Enki and the World Order" (henceforth EWO) is a long and relatively well-preserved Sumerian mythological composition (ca. 472 lines). (1) It divides naturally into four major sections. First, there is an opening third-person praise to Enki...

Amreditas and related constellations in the Rigveda.
October 1, 2003... In discussions of compound types in the Vedic language, the category that is typically placed at or near the end and given only cursory treatment is the amredita. (1) It is easy to see why this is so. Formally, an amredita consists of two...

The many voices of the Mahabharata.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION Alf Hiltebeitel has consistently been the single most open-minded and fearlessly imaginative Western reader the authors and editors of the Sanskrit Mahabharata (MBh) have ever had for their masterpiece. He renews his claim to...

Semitic linguistics in the new millennium.
October 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION (1) It is always a fitting tribute to a scholarly field when a number of its most distinguished practitioners gather to reflect on its growth and historical development. The work under review contains eighteen state-of-the-art...

Mikha'il Mishaqa: virtual founder of the twenty-four equal quartertone scale.
October 1, 2003... When Mikha'il Mishaqa (1800-1888) (1) traveled to Damascus in 1820 to receive instruction from the renowned scholar Sheikh Muhammad al-'Attar, (2) the Ottoman empire was ruling over Lebanon and Syria and had Istanbul as its principal cultural...

Yuan Hong: a case of premature death by historians?
October 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (1) 'Tis night: and on the Western Stream here swims the Cattle Isle. No cloud to fleck the spotless sky that stretches mile on mile. Within my skiff I float away the Autumn Moon to view...

A Descriptive Grammar of Early Old Japanese Prose.(A Reference Grammar of Classical Japanese Prose)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... A Descriptive Grammar of Early Old Japanese Prose. By JOHN R. BENTLEY. Brill's Japanese Studies Library, vol. 15. Leiden: BRILL, 2002. Pp. 286, tables. $68. A Reference Grammar of Classical Japanese Prose. By ALEXANDER VOVIN. London:...

Ancient China: Chinese Civilization from Its Origins to the Tang Dynasty.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Ancient China: Chinese Civilization from Its Origins to the Tang Dynasty. By MAURIZIO SCARPARI. New York: BARNES AND NOBLE BOOKS, 2000. Pp. 292, illus. Translated by "A. B. A." This book appears simultaneously in Italian (1) and English. In...

The Ancient Near East c. 3000-330 B.C.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... The Ancient Near East c. 3000-330 B.C. By AMELIE KUHRT. 2 vols. Routledge History of the Ancient World. London: ROUTLEDGE, 1995. Pp. xxviii + 381; xix + 400; illus. This introduction to the history of the ancient Near East from the time of...

The Land of Hana: Kings, Chronology, and Scribal Traditions.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... The Land of Hana: Kings, Chronology, and Scribal Traditions. By AMANDA H. PODANY. Bethesda, Md.: CDL PRESS, 2002. Pp. xiv + 305. $60. As Assyriologists know, many periods of Mesopotamian history are not illuminated by descriptions of...

The Pesharim and Qumran History: Chaos or Consensus?(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... The Pesharim and Qumran History: Chaos or Consensus? By JAMES H. CHARLESWORTH, with appendices by LIDIJA NOVAKOVIC. Grand Rapids, Mich.: WM. B. EERDMANS PUBLISHING CO., 2002. Pp. xiv + 171, illus. $28 (paper). This volume is aimed,...

Selected Writings on Chariots, Other Early Vehicles, Riding and Harness.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Selected Writings on Chariots, Other Early Vehicles, Riding and Harness. By MARY AIKEN LITTAUER and JOOST H. CROUWEL. Edited by Peter Raulwing. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, vol. 6. Leiden: BRILL, 2002. Pp. xlvi + 609, plates....

Umma Messenger Texts in the British Museum, Part One.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Umma Messenger Texts in the British Museum, Part One. By F. D'AGOSTINO AND F. POMPONIO. Nisaba (Studi Assiriologici Messinesi), vol. I. Messina: DIPARTIMENTO DI SCIENZE DELL'ANTICHITA DELL UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MESSINA, 2002. Pp. 286....

Mesopotamia and the Bible: Comparative Explorations.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Mesopotamia and the Bible: Comparative Explorations. Edited by MARK W. CHAVALAS and K. LAWSON YOUNGER, JR. Grand Rapids, Mich.: BAKER ACADEMIC, 2002. Pp. 395. $29.99 (paper). The editors of this collection have gathered essays by experts to...

The Deuteronomistic History and the Name Theology: [l.sup.e]sakken [s.sup.e] mo sam in the Bible and the Ancient Near East.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... The Deuteronomistic History and the Name Theology: [l.sup.e]sakken [s.sup.e] mo sam in the Bible and the Ancient near East. By SANDRA L. RICHTER. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, vol. 318. Berlin: WALTER DE...

Sha'ar Hagolan 1: Neolithic Art in Context.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Sha'ar Hagolan 1: Neolithic Art in Context. Edited by YOSEF GARFINKEL and MICHELE A. MILLER. Oxford: OXBOW BOOKS, 2002. Pp. x + 262, illus. $85. [Distrib. in North America by David Brown Book Company, Oakville, Conn.] This is a first...

Textes akkadiens d'Ugarit: Textes provenant des vingt-cinq premieres campagnes.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Textes akkadiens d'Ugarit: Textes provenant des vingt-cinq premieres campagnes. By SYLVIE LACKENBACHER. Litteratures anciennes du Proche-Orient, vol. 20. Paris: EDITIONS DU CERF, 2002, Pp. 397. [euro]33. We are fortunate now to have...

Ritual and Cult at Ugarit.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Ritual and Cult at Ugarit. By DENNIS PARDEE. Writings from the Ancient World, vol. 10. Atlanta: SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE, 2002. Pp. xiii + 299. $29.95 (paper). In 2000 Dennis Pardee published Les textes rituels, in two volumes of...

Agyptische Algorithmen: Eine Untersuchung zu den mittelagyptischen mathematischen Aufgabentexten.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Agyptische Algorithmen: Eine Untersuchung zu den mittelagyptischen mathematischen Aufgabentexten. By ANNETTE IMHAUSEN. Agyptologische Abhandlungen, vol. 65. Wiesbaden: HARRASSOWITZ VERLAG, 2003. Pp. xi + 387. [euro]58 (paper). The earliest...

Late Hittite Emar: The Chronology, Synchronisms, and Socio-Political Aspects of a Late Bronze Age Fortress Town.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Late Hittite Emar: The Chronology, Synchronisms, and Socio-Political Aspects of a Late Bronze Age Fortress Town. By MURRAY ADAMTHWAITE. Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Supplement 8. Louvain: PEETERS, 2001. Pp. xxiii + 293, illus. [euro]70...

The Book of Ezekiel: Theological and Anthropological Perspectives.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... The Book of Ezekiel: Theological and Anthropological Perspectives. Edited by MARGARET S. ODELL and JOHN T. STRONG. SBL Symposium Series, vol. 9. Atlanta: SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE, 2000. Pp. xiii + 270. $39.95 (paper). This collection...

Semitic Noun Patterns.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Semitic Noun Patterns. By JOSHUA FOX. Harvard Semitic Studies, vol. 52. Winona Lake, Ind.: EISENBRAUNS, 2003. Pp. xix + 361. $39.95. This book, originally the author's Ph.D. dissertation, deals with noun patterns in the Semitic languages,...

A History of the Animal World in the Ancient Near East.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... A History of the Animal World in the Ancient Near East. Edited by BILLIE JEAN COLLINS. Handbook of Oriental Studies, vol. I, 64. Leiden: BRILL, 2002. Pp. xxii + 620, illus. $164. There is something obviously special about animals. People...

Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From?(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? By WILLIAM G. DEVER. Grand Rapids, Mich.: WILLIAM B. EERDMANS PUBLISHING CO., 2003. Pp. xi + 268, illus. $25. As a follow-up of his recent work, What Did the Biblical Writers Know...

Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East. By MARTTI NISSINEN, with C. L. Seow and Robert K. Ritner. Writings from the Ancient World, vol. 12. Atlanta: SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE, 2003. Pp. xix + 273, maps. $29.95 (paper). This...

Le funzioni sintattiche degli elementi avverbiali di luogo ittiti.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Le funzioni sintattiche degli elementi avverbiali di luogo ittiti anda(n), appa(n), katta(n), katti-, peran, para, ser, sara. By RITA FRANCIA. Studi asiana, vol. 1. Rome: HERDER, 2002. Pp. x + 245. [euro]20 (paper). This book, a revised...

Das Totenbuch pBerlin P. 10477 aus Achmim (mit Photographien des verwandten pHildesheim 5248).(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Das Totenbuch pBerlin P. 10477 aus Achmim (mit Photographien des verwandten pHildesheim 5248). By BARBARA LUSCHER, with contributions from Ursula Rossler-Kohler and Maria-Theresia Derchain-Urtel. Handschriften des Altagyptischen Totenbuchs,...

To Your Tents, O Israel! The Terminology, Function, Form, and Symbolism of Tents in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... To Your Tents, O Israel! The Terminology, Function, Form, and Symbolism of Tents in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East. By MICHAEL M. HOMAN. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, vol. 12. Pp. xxv + 229, plates, Leiden: BRILL,...

The Puspasutra: A Pratisakhya of the Samaveda.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... The Puspasutra: A Pratisakhya of the Samaveda. Translated by G. H. TARLEKAR. 2 volumes. Kalamulasastra Series, vol. 33. New Delhi: INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE ARTS; Delhi: MOTILAL BANARSIDASS. 2001. Pp. xxxii + 725. Rs 1550. The...

Jains in the World: Religious Values and Ideology in India.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Jains in the World: Religious Values and Ideology in India. By JOHN E. CORT. New York: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2001. Pp. 267 + xvi, maps, illus. As a student of mainly Hindu traditions, who had only slight acquaintance with Jain ideology...

The Economics of Ecstasy: Tantra, Secrecy, and Power in Colonial Bengal.(w)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... The Economics of Ecstasy: Tantra, Secrecy, and Power in Colonial Bengal. By HUGH B. URBAN. New York: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2001. Pp. 286 + xvii. $55.00. Songs of Ecstasy: Tantric and Devotional Songs from Colonial Bengal. By HUGH B....

The Dvaravati Wheels of the Law and the Indianization of South East Asia.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... The Dvaravati Wheels of the Law and the Indianization of South East Asia. By ROBERT L. BROWN, Studies in Asian Art and Archaeology, vol. 18. Leiden: BRILL, 1996. Pp. xxxii + 237, 26 drawings, plates. Art from Thailand. Edited by ROBERT L....

Jimutavahana's Dayabhaga: The Hindu Law of Inheritance in Bengal.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Jimutavahana's Dayabhaga: The Hindu Law of Inheritance in Bengal. Edited and translated by LUDO ROCHER. Oxford: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2002. Pp. xii + 426. $72. Of the works of Jimutavahana, three dharma texts have come down to us--all...

Mughal Architecture: An Outline of Its History and Development (1526-1858).(Mughal Art and Imperial Ideology: Collected Essays)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Mughal Architecture: An Outline of Its History and Development (1526-1858). By EBBA KOCH. New Delhi: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2002. Pp. 160. $45. Mughal Art and Imperial Ideology: Collected Essays. By EBBA KOCH. New Delhi: OXFORD...

Pali: A Grammar of the Language of the Theravada Tipitaka, With a Concordance to Pischel's Grammatik der Prakrit-Sprachen.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Pali: A Grammar of the Language of the Theravada Tipitaka, With a Concordance to Pischel's Grammatik der Prakrit-Sprachen. By THOMAS OBERLIES. Indian Philology and South Asian Studies, vol. 3. Berlin: DE GRUYTER, 2001. Pp. xviii + 385. $142.25....

The Story of Paesi (Paesi-kahanayam): Soul and Body in Ancient India: A Dialogue on Materialism; Text, Translation, Notes and Glossary.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... The Story of Paesi (Paesi-kahanayam): Soul and Body in Ancient India: A Dialogue on Materialism; Text, Translation, Notes and Glossary. By WILLEM BOLLEE. Beitrage zur Kenntnis sudasiatischer Sprachen und Literaturen, vol. 8. Wiesbaden:...

India and South Asia: A Short History.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... India and South Asia: A Short History. By DAVID LUDDEN. Oxford: ONEWORLD, 2002. Pp. xii + 306. $20.95. A History of India. By PETER ROBB, New York: PALGRAVE, 2002. Pp. xiv + 344. $35. The goal of a single scholar writing a truly...

The World of Obituaries: Gender Across Cultures and Over Time.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... The World of Obituaries: Gender Across Cultures and Over Time. By MUSHIRA EID. Detroit: WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2002. Pp. 332. This is a book which, at first glance, appears to be on a macabre subject. Eid informs the reader at the...

Grammatical Concepts 101 for Biblical Hebrew.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Grammatical Concepts 101 for Biblical Hebrew. By GARY A. LONG. Peabody, Mass.: HENDRICKSON PUBLISHERS, 2002. Pp. xvii + 189. $19.95 (paper). The book under review is designed to teach the rudiments of Biblical Hebrew (BH) via contrastive...

A Hebrew Reader for Ruth.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... A Hebrew Reader for Ruth. By DONALD R. VANCE. Peabody, Mass.: HENDRICKSON PUBLISHERS, 2003. Pp. x + 85. $12.95 (paper). The author is quite right to note in the preface of this work (p. v) the difficult task of students' switching over from...

Recent Developments in Hittite Archaeology and History: Papers in Memory of Hans G. Guterbock.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Recent Developments in Hittite Archaeology and History: Papers in Memory of Hans G. Guterbock. Edited by K. ASLIHAN YENER and HARRY A. HOFFNER JR. with assistance of SIMRIT DHESI. Winona Lake, Ind.: EISENBRAUNS, 2002. Pp. v + 212, illus....

Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia. By KAREN RHEA NEMET-NEJAT. Peabody, Mass.: HENDRICKSON PUBLISHERS, 2002. Pp. xxii + 346. $24.95 (paper). Few people outside the field of Assyriology realize the enormous depth of resources available for...

Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture. By YOSEF GARFINKEL. Austin: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS, 2003. Pp. xviii + 326, illus. $49.95. Some of the most striking archaeological discoveries of recent years have emphasized the complexity of ritual...

Targum and Scripture: Studies in Aramaic Translation and Interpretation in Memory of Ernest G. Clarke.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Targum and Scripture: Studies in Aramaic Translation and Interpretation in Memory of Ernest G. Clarke. Edited by PAUL V. M. FLESHER. Studies in Aramaic Interpretation of Scripture, vol. 2. Leiden; BRILL, 2002. Pp. xxv + 327. $115. This...

A Biblical History of Israel.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... A Biblical History of Israel. By IAIN PROVAN, V. PHILIP LONG, and TREMPER LONGMAN III. Louisville: WESTMINSTER JOHN KNOX PRESS, 2003. Pp. xiv + 426. (paper). It has been a long time since the last conservative textbook on the history of...

The Biography of Ancient Israel: National Narratives in the Bible.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... The Biography of Ancient Israel: National Narratives in the Bible. By ILANA PARDES. Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society, vol. 14. Berkeley and Los Angeles: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 2000. Pp. xii + 211. $40...

The Bijak of Kabir.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... The Bijak of Kabir. Translated by LINDA HESS and SHUKDEO SINGH. Essays and notes by Linda Hess. New York: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2002. Pp. xiii + 200. $17.95. The corpus of the fifteenth-century North Indian poet-saint Kabir is preserved...

Classical Hindu Thought: An Introduction.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Classical Hindu Thought: An Introduction. By ARVIND SHARMA. New Delhi: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2000. Pp. xxv + 221. Rs 445. Modern Hindu Thought: The Essential Texts. By ARVIND SHARMA. New Delhi: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2002. Pp. 383. Rs...

Kleine Schriften.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Kleine Schriften. By ERNST WINDISCH. Edited by KARIN STEINER and JORG GENGNAGEL. Glasenapp-Stiftung, vol. 41. Stuttgart: FRANZ STEINER VERLAG, 2001. Pp. xxvii + 717. DM 228. Although Ernst Windisch (1844-1918) began his scholarly life in...

Studien zur Literatur des Theravada Buddhismus, I: Entstehung und Aufbau der Jataka-Sammlung; II: Das Patimokkhasutta der Theravadin. Seine Gestalt und seine Entstehungsgeschichte.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Studien zur Literatur des Theravada Buddhismus, I: Entstehung und Aufbau der Jataka-Sammlung; II: Das Patimokkhasutta der Theravadin. Seine Gestalt und seine Entstehungsgeschichte. By OSKAR VON HINUBER. Abhandlungen der Akademie der...

Vidyarnavavandanam: Essays in Honour of Asko Parpola.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Vidyarnavavandanam: Essays in Honour of Asko Parpola. Edited by KLAUS KARTTUNEN and PETTERI KOSKIKALLIO. Studia Orientalia, vol. 94. Helsinki: FINNISH ORIENTAL SOCIETY, 2001. Pp. 511. Finnmarks 250. On July 12, 2001, Asko Parpola celebrated...

Religion and Personal Law in Secular India: A Call to Judgment.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Religion and Personal Law in Secular India: A Call to Judgment. Edited by GERALD JAMES LARSON. Bloomington: INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2001. Pp. viii + 362. This volume is the outcome of a conference held at Indiana University in the spring...

"Ein Ungluck ist die Tochter": Zur Diskriminierung des Madchens im alten und heutigen Indien.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... "Ein Ungluck ist die Tochter": Zur Diskriminierung des Madchens im alten und heutigen Indien. By RENATE SYED. Wiesbaden: HARRASSOWITZ, 2001. Pp. 248. The title of this volume is borrowed from the well-known statement in the...

The Roots of Tantra.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... The Roots of Tantra. Edited by K. A. HARPER and R. L. BROWN. Suny Series in Tantric Studies. Albany: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, 2002. Pp. ix + 270, plates. The present volume is the result of two conferences held in the greater...

A Critical Pali Dictionary, Begun by V. Trenckner, Continuing the Work of Dines Andersen and Helmer Smith.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... A Critical Pali Dictionary, Begun by V. Trenckner, Continuing the Work of Dines Andersen and Helmer Smith, vol. III, fasc. 7: kasavacunna-kamadhatu. Edited by OSKAR V. HINUBER. Copenhagen: THE DEPARTMENT OF ASIAN STUDIES, UNIV. OF COPENHAGEN,...

An Annotated Bibliography of the Alamkarasastra.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... An Annotated Bibliography of the Alamkarasastra. By TIMOTHY C. CAHILL. Handbuch der Orientalistik, sec. 2, vol. 14. Leiden: BRILL, 2001. Pp. xxiii + 364. $99. The bibliography is in three parts: published primary texts, mostly in Sanskrit...

Kalapani: Zum Streit uber die Zulassigkeit von Seereisen im kolonialzeitlichen Indien.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Kalapani: Zum Streit uber die Zulassigkeit von Seereisen im kolonialzeitlichen Indien. By SUSMITA ARP. Alt-und Neu-Indische Studien, vol. 52. Stuttgart: FRANZ STEINER VERLAG, 2000. Pp. [iii +]258. Susmita Arp's doctoral dissertation at the...

A Princely Impostor? The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... A Princely Impostor? The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal. By PARTHA CHATTERJEE. Princeton: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2002. Pp. xvii + 429, plates, maps. Subaltern Studies scholar Partha Chatterjee has treated us to a...

Telugu Resurgence: C. P. Brown and Cultural Consolidation in Nineteenth-Century South India.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Telugu Resurgence: C. P. Brown and Cultural Consolidation in Nineteenth-Century South India. By PETER L. SCHMITTHENNER. New Delhi: MANOHAR, 2001. Pp. 311, maps, tables. Rs. 600. In this revised version of a doctoral dissertation submitted...

Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain. By PETER VAN DER VEER. Princeton: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2001. Pp. x + 205. "[I]nspired by Edward Said's claim, in Culture and Imperialism, that the historical...

Yankee India: American Commercial and Cultural Encounters with India in the Age of Sail 1784-1860.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Yankee India: American Commercial and Cultural Encounters with India in the Age of Sail 1784-1860. By SUSAN S. BEAN. Salem, Mass.: PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM; Ahmedabad: MAPIN PUBLISHING PVT. 2001. Pp. 288, plates. $40. As the South Asian...

Books Received.
October 1, 2003... I. Ancient Near East AGEMIAN, SYLVIA. Archives Sirarpie der Nersessian, vol. 1. Antelias, Lebanon: Catholicossat armenien de Cilicie, 2003. Pp. 351, illus. [euro]35 (paper). ALBERTZ, RAINER. Israel in Exile: The History and Literature...