{"title":"Review of The Enigma of the Hyksos, vol . 5: Zwischen den Zeiten: Überlegungen zum Ende der drei Reiche im alten Ägypten","authors":"Anthony J. Spalinger","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.4.2023.r0061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.4.2023.r0061","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000The Enigma of the Hyksos, vol . 5: Zwischen den Zeiten: Überlegungen zum Ende der drei Reiche im alten Ägypten. By Elisa Priglinger . Contributions to the Archaeology of Egypt, Nubia and the Levant, vol. 13. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021. Pp. vi + 254. €98. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":"46 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139007043","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 talugaeš witteš: Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented to Stefano de Martino on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday","authors":"Gary Beckman","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.4.2023.r0064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.4.2023.r0064","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000talugaeš witteš: Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented to Stefano de Martino on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday. Edited by MiChele Cammarosano, Elena Devecchi, and Maurizio Viano . Münster: Zaphon, 2020. Pp. xxv + 500, illus. €118. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":"12 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139009632","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":"Yuga-Avatāra Complex in the Mahābhārata and Harivaṃśa","authors":"Christopher R. Austin","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.4.2023.ra004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.4.2023.ra004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000A recent publication (I by Simon Brodbeck, 2022) proposes to resolve a long-standing theological conundrum of Hindu mythology on the basis of a literary-holist or “synchronic” reading of the Sanskrit Mahābhārata, seeking thereby to displace earlier scholarship treating this theme. This review essay provides a thorough analysis of the arguments of Divine Descent and the closely linked matter of the two competing methodologies in the reading of the Sanskrit epics: the “synchronic” or holist approach championed by Brodbeck and the “analytic” approach, which views the Mahābhārata as a historically layered text. Ultimately, I argue here that the latter “analytic” solutions to the conundrum, which it was Brodbeck’s purpose to challenge, account for the matter far more persuasively. In particular, I make special reference to a 1960 study by Paul Hacker as a work of persisting value for understanding the historic development of the avatāra system over time . \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139009851","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 Humour in Asian Cultures: Tradition and Context","authors":"Elizabeth Smithrosser","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.4.2023.r0077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.4.2023.r0077","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Humour in Asian Cultures: Tradition and Context. Edited by Jessica Milner Davis. New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. xx + 282. $152. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139008585","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 Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks: Daoism and Local Society in Ming China","authors":"Vincent Goossaert","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.4.2023.br014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.4.2023.br014","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks: Daoism and Local Society in Ming China. By Richard G. Wang . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2022. Pp. xii + 383. $60. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139006731","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 Ein Zeugnis des frühen kuschitischen Königtums: Die Stele SNM 1851 vom Jebel Barkal","authors":"Jeremy Pope","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.4.2023.r0062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.4.2023.r0062","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Ein Zeugnis des frühen kuschitischen Königtums: Die Stele SNM 1851 vom Jebel Barkal. By anhelika Lohwasser and Snne Sörgel. Meroitica, vol . 28 . Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. Pp. x + 248, illus. €78. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":"15 S1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139008603","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":"Knowledge Production in China’s Early Empires","authors":"Maxim Korolkov, Brian Lander","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.4.2023.ar032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.4.2023.ar032","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000This paper examines how officials of the Qin (221–207 BCE) and Former Han (202 BCE–9 CE) empires gathered information on their far-flung domains. These empires were able to maintain control over large areas of the East Asian subcontinent because they had an effective system for obtaining information on the things that mattered most to them: people, land, resources, and transport. We have various sources on these information collection systems from both excavated and received texts. These can be considered to include not only maps, surveys, and population records, but also communication infrastructures such as roads, canals, and postal systems. The information-gathering systems of this period are important both because they worked relatively well and because they were recorded in the histories and became a model for later administrators. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":"22 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139008897","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 Messianic Ideas and Movements in Sunnī Islam","authors":"Jeffrey T. Kenney","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.4.2023.r0070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.4.2023.r0070","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Messianic Ideas and Movements in Sunnī Islam. By Yohanan Friedmann. London: Oneworld Academic, 2022. Pp. xvi + 352. $70, £45 (cloth). \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":"10 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138977098","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 Qur’anic Stories: God, Revelation and the Audience","authors":"Peter G. Riddell","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.4.2023.br012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.4.2023.br012","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Qur’anic Stories: God, Revelation and the Audience. By Leyla Ozgur Alhassen. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. Pp. viii + 175. $100 (cloth); $24.95 (paper); $24.95 (ebook). \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":"40 21","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139006951","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 Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire","authors":"Haun Saussy","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.4.2023.r0076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.4.2023.r0076","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire. By Henrietta Harrison. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021 . Pp . xiv + 329. $30. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":"39 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139007409","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}