Pub Date : 2023-08-22DOI: 10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.r0054
A. Hamilton
The Dragoman Renaissance: Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism. By E. Natalie Rothman. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. Pp. xxiii + 419. $24 .95. Open access.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-22DOI: 10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.r0053
Paula Sanders
The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue. By Marina Rustow. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. xi + 597, illus. $45, £35.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-22DOI: 10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.ar022
Michał Németh, Anna Sulimowicz-Keruth
Karaim is a severely endangered language belonging to the Turkic language family and its only surviving dialect is Northwest Karaim with speakers in Lithuania and Poland. In the past few years numerous Karaim translations of the Bible have been discovered. Some of these are among the oldest texts written in this language. The authors present some of the oldest Karaim texts known today as well as recently discovered Karaim translations of the entire Tanakh. It is shown how these recent research results have broadened our knowledge regarding the Karaim written heritage. Furthermore, some preliminary conclusions are drawn on the relationships among the manuscripts and the biographies of the copyists and translators involved in their creation. Textual similarities between sources created separately in communities located far from one another in the regions of Crimea, Lithuania, Volhynia, and Galicia suggest that a common Karaim tradition of Bible translation must once have existed. Moreover, the textual complexity and the use of sophisticated translation techniques in the oldest known texts support the claim that they were based on older texts or on a well-established oral tradition of translation.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-22DOI: 10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.ar023
Yonatan Moss, Flavia Ruani
Within the rich literary tradition of the West Syrian (i.e., Syriac Orthodox) Church, two ninth-century authors stand out thanks to a curious problem. The authors are the bishops John of Dara, who lived in the first half of the century, and Moses bar Kepha, who died in northern Iraq in 903. The problem is the literary relationship between several of the texts transmitted in their names. Applying a three-pronged approach to this synoptic problem, this article offers a path toward a solution. On the basis of biographical, stylistic, and philological arguments, it is argued that at least one text that goes under John’s name, On Heretics, was not in fact written by him. The author of that text, likely operating in the tenth century, drew heavily from Moses bar Kepha’s treatise On Paradise, while reshaping the material from Moses, and also incorporating additional material from other sources.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-22DOI: 10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.fm
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{"title":"Review of Arabic Poetics: Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Literature","authors":"Avigail Noy","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.r0056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.r0056","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Arabic Poetics: Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Literature. By Lara Harb. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilizations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xviii + 298. $99.99 (cloth); $29.99 (paper); $18.49 (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":"49604673","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}
Pub Date : 2023-08-22DOI: 10.7817/jaos.143.3.2023.r0047
Marian H. Feldman
Gold von Königen und Götter: Zur Bedeutung von Goldobjekten in den syrisch-nordlevantinischen Königtümern der Mittleren und Späten Bronzezeit ausgehend von den Funden aus den Grüften von Qaṭna. By Ivana Puljiz. Qaṭna Studien, vol. 10. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021. Pp. xlvi + 609, illus. €178.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-09DOI: 10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.fm
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Pub Date : 2023-06-09DOI: 10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.ar011
F. Dragoni
The name of Khotan (Old Khotanese hvatana-) is attested in Chinese, Niya Prakrit, Tibetan, Sogdian, and Old Uyghur. Strangely, the name has not previously been identified in Tocharian and Bactrian. This paper argues that a form of the name of Khotan is actually attested in Tocharian A and B and was borrowed from native speakers of Pre- or Old Khotanese. Moreover, the Bactrian documents may have preserved a form of the name of Khotan as well. The analysis of the newly identified forms enables a fresh examination of the borrowing directions of the name of Khotan in the Tarim Basin and beyond and allows several historical and linguistic conclusions.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-09DOI: 10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.r0026
Matt Waters
Persianism in Antiquity. Edited by Rolf Strootman and MigueL John Versluys. Oriens et Occidens, vol. 25. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017. Pp. 557, illus. €84.
古代波斯语。由Rolf Strootman和MigueL John Versluys编辑。Oriens和Occidens,第25卷。斯图加特:Franz Steiner Verlag,2017。第557页,插图。84欧元。
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