{"title":"Review of A Short History of Babylon","authors":"J. Nielsen","doi":"10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.r0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.r0029","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000A Short History of Babylon. By Karen Radner. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Pp. xxvii + 239, illus. $19.95 (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":"48855509","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 : 2023-06-09DOI: 10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.r0036
L. G. Jones
Arabic Oration: Art and Function. By Tahera Qutbuddin. Handbook of Oriental Studies, I, vol. 131. Leiden: Brill, 2019. Pp. xvi + 644. $222, €169 (cloth); $59, €49 (paper).
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Pub Date : 2023-06-09DOI: 10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.ar015
D. Tsumura
It is generally assumed that a cult of El existed in Late Bronze Age Ugarit and that the alphabetic spelling IL must refer either to the generic “god” or to the divine name El. However, such an either-or question is too simplistic when we are dealing with the multifarious nature of polytheism. In the light of Ugaritic material, which includes the liturgical texts, several “pantheon” lists, a quadrilingual vocabulary, as well as theophoric personal names, it is obvious that IL also can refer to the collective godhead Ilū. Furthermore, IL in the ritual-myth text KTU 1.23 is distinct from El in the Baal cycle. In light of several Greek and ancient Near Eastern myths of “divine engenderment,” KTU 1.23 most likely deals with the motif of the collective godhead IL (ˀIlū), who impregnated two human women in order to engender two sets of divinities. Hence, the deus otiosus theory that IL in 1.23 is a “younger” El should be rejected.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-09DOI: 10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.ar016
P. W. Stokes
This article attempts a foray into the linguistic study of vocalization traditions in Christian Arabic by examining the patterns of 3rd person pronominal suffix harmonization in some vocalized Christian Arabic gospel manuscripts. In normative Classical Arabic, the 3rd person suffixes harmonized with a preceding -i, -ī, or -ay. However, early grammarians documented a much greater diversity of patterns. I document the patterns of nine vocalized Christian Gospel manuscripts, and show that several patterns are attested, including the normative Classical Arabic pattern, that parallel those attested in the early grammarian and Quran reading traditions. I argue that Christians were clearly aware of, and participants in, a range of performative linguistic traditions, and retain them when elsewhere they were marginalized or lost. I conclude by pushing both for more vigorous study of this vocalized layer of Christian Arabic tradition and reframing the context within which the study of Christian Arabic is undertaken.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-09DOI: 10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.r0037
Mohammed Allehbi
Caliphs and Merchants: Cities and Economies of Power in the Near East (700–950). By Fanny Bessard. Oxford Studies in Byzantium. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xxviii + 360. $115, £90.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-09DOI: 10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.br003
James L. McHugh
The Charter of Viṣṇuṣeṇa. Translation and Study by Harald Wiese and Sadananda Das. Studia Indologica Universitatis Halensis, vol. 11. Halle an der Saale: UniversitätsverlaG Halle-Wittenberg, 2019. Pp. 166. € 59.
Vis的宪章。Harald Wiese和Sadananda Das的翻译和研究。Halensis Indologica Universitatis，第11卷。Halle an der Saale:UniversityätsverlaG Halle-Wittenberg，2019。第166页。59欧元。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-09DOI: 10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.br005
G. Beckman
Der Babel-Bibel-Streit und die Wissenschaft des Judentums: Beiträge einer internationalen Konferenz vom 4. bis 6. November 2019 in Berlin. Edited by Eva Cancik-KirschbaUm and Thomas L. Gertzen. Münster: Zaphon, 2021. Pp. 334, illus. €58.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-09DOI: 10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.ra002
Michael Fuller
Partisan historiographic intervention has strongly shaped what we know of the life and writings of the controversial Northern Song dynasty official Wang Anshi. Thus, interpreting his surviving textual legacy presents a significant challenge. The two monographs under review offer very different approaches to this challenge. Yang Xiaoshan explores the history of the interpretive issues, while Jonathan Pease takes a very personal approach to a lifetime of reflection on Wang Anshi’s life and works.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-09DOI: 10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.r0022
Jessey J. C. Choo
Chinese Funerary Biographies: An Anthology of Remembered Lives. Edited by Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Ping Yao, and Cong Ellen Zhang. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. Pp. xvi + 304. $30.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-09DOI: 10.7817/jaos.143.2.2023.br008
M. Fadel
The Tale of Princess Fatima, Warrior Woman: The Arabic Epic of Dhat al-Himma. Translated by Melanie Magidow. New York: Penguin Books, 2021. Pp. xxxiv + 167. $16.
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