{"title":"Review of Max van Berchem, un orientaliste","authors":"Benjamin Michaudel","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.r0055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.r0055","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Max van Berchem, un orientaliste. By Charles Genequand. Geneva: Librarie Droz, 2021. Pp. 208, illus. $42 (paper); $33.60 (ebook). \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43631665","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 Sumerians","authors":"Amanda H. Podany","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.r0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.r0045","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000The Sumerians. By Paul Collins. Lost Civilizations. London: Reaktion Books, 2021. Pp. 214, illus. $25. [Distributed by University of Chicago Press.] \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41713825","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":"Marvelous Bookcase","authors":"Xiaojing Miao","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.ar019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.ar019","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Yang Jiong 楊炯 (650–ca . 694), though hailed both by his contemporaries and later generations as one of the “Four Elites of the Early Tang,” has yet to receive due scholarly attention. This article contributes to the study of Yang Jiong by examining his “Fu on the Bookcase for Reading While Lying Down” (“Wodu shu- jia fu” 臥讀書架賦). It demonstrates how the poet displays his literary genius by skillfully employing various allusions, using self-deprecating humor for assertive self-display, devising close echoes among different parts, and building an extremely well-balanced structure, written in verse of an elaborately parallel style. More importantly, he cleverly crafts a double text so that both the physical bookcase and he himself, the “mental bookcase,” become the dual subjects of the fu. The interplay between the bookcase, the poet, and his self-representation also contributes to the wider discussions of material culture, social norms, and literary expression. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46063766","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 Literaturkontakte Ugarits: Wurzeln und Entfaltungen. Internationale Tagung, Münster, 13.–15. Oktober 2015","authors":"G. Beckman","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.r0044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.r0044","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Literaturkontakte Ugarits: Wurzeln und Entfaltungen. Internationale Tagung, Münster, 13.–15. Oktober 2015. Edited by Ingo Kottsieper and Hans Neumann. Kasion, vol. 5. Münster: Zaphon, 2021. Pp. 251, illus. €69. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46843500","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 Ritualbeschreibungen und Gebete III","authors":"Evelyne Koubková","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.r0051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.r0051","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Ritualbeschreibungen und Gebete III. By Stefan Jakob. Keilschrifttexte aus Assur literarischen Inhalts, vol. 9 / Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, vol. 154. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018. Pp. ix + 242, illus. €54. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43475614","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 Iranisches Personennamenbuch, vol. 5, Iranische Namen in Nebenüberlieferungen Indogermanischer Sprachen, fasc. 3","authors":"Jared S. Klein","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.br011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.br011","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Iranisches Personennamenbuch, vol. 5, Iranische Namen in Nebenüberlieferungen Indogermanischer Sprachen, fasc. 3: Iranian Personal Names in Arme-nian Collateral Tradition. By Hrach Martirosyan. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Phil-Hist. Kl. Sitzungsberichte, vol. 912. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2021. Pp. 453. €98 (paper); €78.40 (ebook). \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48989330","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 Ancient Mesopotamia Speaks: Highlights from the Yale Babylonian Collection","authors":"G. Beckman","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.br010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.br010","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Ancient Mesopotamia Speaks: Highlights from the Yale Babylonian Collection. Edited by Agnete W. Lassen, Eckart Frahm, and Klaus Wagensonner. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. Pp. xiii + 306. $35 (paper). \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44336801","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":"Inscriptions on the Tillya-tepe and Pushkalavati Coins: Epigraphic, Linguistic, and Literary Remarks","authors":"Stefan Baums","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.ar026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.ar026","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000This article discusses paleographic and linguistic aspects of the Kharoṣṭhī inscriptions on the Tillya-tepe and Pushkalavati coins and adduces some epigraphic and literary parallels. It proposes a syntactically separate reading of the two sides of the Tillya-tepe coin, and concludes that in spite of some differences of execution the coins may have been produced in the same workshop. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43596764","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 Abbasid Caliphate: A History","authors":"Hayrettin Yücesoy","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.r0057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.r0057","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000The Abbasid Caliphate: A History. By Tayeb El-HiBri. Cambridge: CamBridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xxxii + 330, illus. $89.99 (cloth); $29.99 (paper); $24 (ebook). \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47742753","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":"Great Mahābhārata After-Dinner Talk","authors":"James L. Fitzgerald","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.ar018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.ar018","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000The “greatness” of the Mahābhārata, its mahat/mahā quality, refers primarily to its intended dynamism as a powerful engine generating the spread of Brahminic teaching throughout the world, casting “heathen” (nāstika) teachings and their patrons into shadow for all time. The Brahmin authors worked to accomplish this end in two main ways. First, they devised a tremendously engaging tale that depicted the decisive victory of a king (Yudhiṣṭhira Pāṇḍava) who accepted Brahmin claims to deserve monopoly-control over teaching the norms of society. Second, they made this tale an extensive magisterium of Brahmin ideology and philosophy, affording to all in society, women and śūdras as well as Aryan men, encouragement to seek the forgiveness of past wrongs at tīrthas and access to the teachings of mokṣa without Vedic initiation. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":46777,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45108914","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}