{"title":"On the Goodness Brought by the Ugly Barbarians","authors":"San-Ching Chen","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.ar013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.ar013","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000In early medieval China, the word hu 胡, at the time referring primarily to Iranian-speaking Central Asians, came to be used in a large group of personal names whose bearers ranged from ordinary people to a member of the Tang royal family. This paper examines the true meaning of these personal names, which has neither been recorded in known primary sources nor been explained in any dictionary, ancient or modern. Using both Sinitic and Iranian onomastic data, these names are shown to be part of the Iranization of Chinese nomenclature. They showcase the breadth and depth of the pre-Islamic Iranian cultural influence in medieval China. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41749836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cause of Seamless Integration","authors":"Yigal Bronner","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.ar010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.ar010","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000This paper revisits the longstanding tradition concerning the dual authorship of the Light on Literature (Kāvyaprakāśa), the dominant treatise on Sanskrit poetics in the second millennium CE. The discussion focuses on one case study, a brief comment dismissing the ornament “cause” (hetu), found in the latter part of chapter 10 in the portion traditionally attributed to Mammaṭa’s successor Allaṭa (aka Alaka). This passage is analyzed in the broader context of the Light’s discussion of semantic capacities (chapter 2), suggestion (chapter 4), and other ornaments (chapter 10). The essay also looks at the way generations of commentators have dealt with this topic and the potential inconsistencies in its treatment in the Light. The paper thus throws light on the question of the work’s overall integration, seamless or not so seamless, both in its genetic and receptive histories. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42232323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of The Archaeological Survey of the Desert Road between Berenike and the Nile Valley: Expeditions by the University of Michigan and the University of Delaware to the Eastern Desert of Egypt, 1987–2015","authors":"J. Darnell","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.r0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.r0027","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000The Archaeological Survey of the Desert Road between Berenike and the Nile Valley: Expeditions by the University of Michigan and the University of Delaware to the Eastern Desert of Egypt, 1987–2015. Edited by Steven E. Sidebotham and Jennifer E. Gates-Foster. American Schools of Oriental Research, Archaeological Reports, vol. 26. Boston: American SchooLs of Oriental Research, 2019. Pp. xxiii + 480, illus. $84.95. [Distributed by ISD, Bristol, CT] \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45405708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Die Grabanlage des Monthemhet (TT 34) I: Der Weg zur Sargkammer (R 44.1 bis R 53)","authors":"S. Bojowald","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.r0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.r0033","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Die Grabanlage des Monthemhet (TT 34) I: Der Weg zur Sargkammer (R 44.1 bis R 53). By Louise Gestermann, Carolina Teotino, and Mareike Wagner. Mit einem Beitrag von Farouk Gomaà und Zeichnungen von Natalie Schmidt. 4 vols. Studien zur spätägyptischen Religion, vol. 31. Wies baden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021. Pp. xxv + 1454, pls. €298. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47293151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Die Gaumonographien in Edfu und ihre Papyrusvarianten: Ein überregionaler Kanon kultischen Wissens im spätzeitlichen Ägypten","authors":"Colleen Darnell","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.r0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.r0030","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Die Gaumonographien in Edfu und ihre Papyrusvarianten: Ein überregionaler Kanon kultischen Wissens im spätzeitlichen Ägypten. By Christian Leitz. Studien zur spätägyptischen Religion, vol. 9. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014. Pp. ix + 561 (vol. 1), 118 pls. (vol. 2). €158. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44209629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Text and Interpretation: Imam Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq and His Legacy in Islamic Law","authors":"Ahmad Ahmad","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.r0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.r0038","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Text and Interpretation: Imam Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq and His Legacy in Islamic Law. By Hossein Modarressi. Cambridge, MA: Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law SchooL, 2022. Pp. v + 451. $60, £48.95, €54. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43273851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals and Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals: Glossaries and Indices","authors":"J. Scurlock","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.r0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.r0025","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals. By Tsvi Abusch, Daniel Schwemer, Mikko Luukko, and Greta van Buylaere. Ancient Magic and Divination, vol. 8.3. Leiden: briLL, 2020. Pp. xx + 507, 68 pls. $297. \u0000Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals: Glossaries and Indices. By Greta van Buylaere and Mikko Luukko. Ancient Magic and Divination, vol. 8.4. Leiden: briLL, 2020. Pp. viii + 163. $127. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48082371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of The Khārijites in Early Islamic Historical Tradition: Heroes and Villains","authors":"Steven C. Judd","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.r0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.r0035","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000The Khārijites in Early Islamic Historical Tradition: Heroes and Villains. By Hannah-Lena Hagemann. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. Pp. xii + 316. $110, £85. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43591061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making Sense of the Odes","authors":"L. Waring","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.ar012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.ar012","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Prior to the emergence of the formalized commentarial traditions of the Early Imperial era (221 BCE–220 CE), the Odes seem typically to have been encountered “in motion” or “in use” as quoted speech in early historical and philosophical works. By studying the way the Odes are used in an understudied text—the Guoyu 國語 (Discourses of the states), probably compiled in the late Warring States era (ca. 475–221 BCE)—this article explores how historical speeches and anecdotes were used as an early form of commentary, variously contextualizing, explaining, paraphrasing, glossing, and interpreting the Odes. Before the invention of comprehensive, systematic commentaries associating each poem with a particular historical context and meaning, texts like the Guoyu provided early readers with guides to understanding and using classical texts, and many of their exegetical forms and strategies anticipate the commentarial traditions of the early empires. This article shows that historical speeches were one way in which early Chinese elites were trained in how to read and use the Odes appositely and sensitively, and that we can think of such speeches as a form of commentary. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46600000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Luwian Hieroglyphic Texts in Late Bronze Age Scribal Tradition","authors":"Zsolt Simon","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.br004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.br004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Luwian Hieroglyphic Texts in Late Bronze Age Scribal Tradition. By Fred C. Woudhuizen. Dresdner Beiträge zur Hethitologie, vol. 53. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021. Pp. 343, illus. €84 (paper). \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44478783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}