{"title":"Review of Hieratic Ritual Books of Pawerem (P. BM EA 10252 and P. BM EA 10081) from the Late 4th Century BC","authors":"Stefan Bojowald","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.4.2023.r0059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.4.2023.r0059","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000The Hieratic Ritual Books of Pawerem (P. BM EA 10252 and P. BM EA 10081) from the Late 4th Century BC. By Ann-Katrin Gill . 2 vols. Studien zur Spätägyptischen Religion, vol. 25. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019. Pp. xvii + 1075. €248. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139009071","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 Forms and Functions of Pendant Koran Manuscripts","authors":"Ayșin Yoltar-Yıldırım","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.4.2023.r0068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.4.2023.r0068","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Forms and Functions of Pendant Koran Manuscripts. By Cornelius Berthold. Arabische Studien, vol . 17 . Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2021. Pp. x + 291, illus. €68. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139009988","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 Crown and the Courts: Separation of Powers in the Early Jewish Imagination","authors":"Ishay Rosen-Zvi","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.r0046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.r0046","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000The Crown and the Courts: Separation of Powers in the Early Jewish Imagination. By David C. Flatto. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 367. $39.95. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44653463","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 Words of Destiny: Practicing Astrology in North India","authors":"D. White","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.r0058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.r0058","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Words of Destiny: Practicing Astrology in North India. By Caterina Guenzi. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2021. Pp. 376. $95 (cloth); $33.95 (paper). \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47912170","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 Women, Gender, and Sexuality in China: A Brief History","authors":"A. Kinney","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.r0043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.r0043","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Women, Gender, and Sexuality in China: A Brief History. By Ping Yao. London: Routledge, 2022. Pp. x + 201. $136 (cloth); $37 (paper). \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41911846","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 Afterlives of Ancient Rock-cut Monuments in the Near East: Carvings in and out of Time","authors":"T. Bilgin","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.r0049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.r0049","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Afterlives of Ancient Rock-cut Monuments in the Near East: Carvings in and out of Time. Edited by Jonathan Ben-Dov and Felipe Rojas Culture & History of the Ancient Near East, vol. 123. Leiden: Brill, 2021. Pp. xxiii + 441. $190. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47512115","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 A Couple of Soles: A Comic Play from Seventeenth-Century China","authors":"S. Kile","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.r0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.r0040","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000A Couple of Soles: A Comic Play from Seventeenth-Century China. By Li Yu, translated by Jing Shen and Robert E. Hegel. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. Pp. xxv + 330. $25. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45908876","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 Bronze and Stone: The Cult of Antiquity in Song Dynasty China","authors":"Yunshuang Zhang","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.r0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.r0039","url":null,"abstract":"Bronze and Stone: The Cult of Antiquity in Song Dynasty China. By Yunchiahn C. Sena. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019 . Pp. xiii + 220. $60.","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47414410","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":"Tillya Tepe Gold Coin and the Gandhāran Connections of the Tillya Tepe Burials","authors":"J. Cribb","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.ar025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.ar025","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000The gold coin found in 1978 among the many treasures of the Tillya Tepe burials in northwestern Afghanistan by the Russian archaeologist Viktor Sarianidi and his team has provoked much debate. Suggestions have been made that it depicts the first representation of the Buddha. This article shows that it does not show the Buddha, but Heracles, representing the Buddha’s guardian Vajrapani. The coin also throws into doubt the early first century CE date of the burials, placing them in the late first century to early second century CE.. The coin also draws attention to the connection between many objects in the burials and Gandhāra, particularly the site of Sirkap at Taxila. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46851584","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 Gods of Mount Tai: Familiarity and the Material Culture of North China, 1000–2000","authors":"Zhujun Ma","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.r0041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.r0041","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Gods of Mount Tai: Familiarity and the Material Culture of North China, 1000–2000. By Susan \u0000Naquin. Leiden: Brill, 2022. Pp. xv + 538. $305. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48488846","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}