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TABLE OF CONTENTS, Volume 131
AKSAN, VIRGINIA H., Review of Wilkins: Forg- DEARMAN, J. ANDREW, Review of Noegel and
ing Urban Solidarities: Ottoman Aleppo 1640- Rendsburg: Solomon’s Vineyard: Literary and
Linguistic Studies in the Song of Songs
BADEN, JOEL, Review of Callaham: Modality and DINCOL, ALI, and BELKIS DINCOL, Review of
the Biblical Hebrew infinitive Absolute Marazzi: Sammlung hieroglyphischer Siegel,
______, Review of Hendel, ed.: Reading Gen- vol. 1: Vorarbeiten
esis: Ten Methods DRompP, MICHAEL R.: The Lone Wolf in Inner
BAGCHEE, JOYDEEP, Review of Thompson: The
Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation. ........ DUNHAM, SALLY, Review of Matoian, ed.: Le
BAGG, ARIEL M., Review of Anthonioz: L’eau, mobilier du palais royal d’Ougarit
enjeux politiques et théologiques, de Sumer a la EDZARD, LUTZ, Review of Isaksson et al.: Cir-
cumstantial Qualifiers in Semitic: The Case of
BARKEY, KAREN, Review of Dale: The Muslim Arabic and Hebrew 327
Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals . ELLENS, J. HAROLD, Review of Loader: Sexual-
BECKMAN, GARY, Review of Jaricke: Regionaler ity and the Jesus Tradition; Enoch, Levi, and
Kult und lokaler Kult: Studien zur Kult- und Jubilees on Sexuality: Attitudes towards Sexu-
Religionsgeschichte Israels und Judas im 9. ality in the Early Enoch Literature, the Aramaic
und 8. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Levi Document, and the Book of Jubilees; The
—_______., Review of Kiihne, ed.: Pseudepigrapha on Sexuality: Attitudes towards
Katlimmu 2008 and Beyond Sexuality in Apocalyptic Testaments, Legends,
BEEK, MARTIN VAN, Review of Kloos: Tibetan Wisdom, and Related Literature
Medicine among the Buddhist Dards of Ladakh ERGENE, BOGAG A., Review of Zarinebaf: Crime
BELLOTTO, NICOLETTA, Review of Bodel and Olyan, and Punishment in Istanbul, 1700-1800
eds.: Household and Family Religion in Antiquity FADEL, MOHAMMa~D: A Tragedy of Politics or an
BERG, HERBERT, Review of Scheiner: Die Er- Apolitical Tragedy?
oberung von Damaskus: Quellenkritische FINKBEINER, DOUG, Review of Pummer: The
Untersuchung zur Historiographie in klassisch- Samaritans in Flavius Josephus
islamischer Zeit FLATT, EMMA: The Authorship and Significance
BIRCH, JASON: The Meaning of hatha in Early of the Nujiim al-‘ulim: A Sixteenth-Century
Hathayoga Astrological Encyclopedia from Bijapur
Bos, JAMES M., Review of Hackett: A Basic Intro- FOSTER, BENJAMIN R., Review of Fleming and
duction to Biblical Hebrew Milstein: The Buried Foundation of the Gil-
BRANNER, DAVID PRAGER: Portmanteau Charac- gamesh Epic: The Akkadian Huwawa Narrative
ters in Chinese , Review of Shehata et al., eds.: Von
, Review of Hart: The Chinese Roots Géttern und Menschen. Beitriige zu Literatur
of Linear Algebra und Geschichte des Alten Orients: Festschrift
BRICK, DAVID, Review of Lubin et al., eds.: Hin- fiir Brigitte Groneberg
duism and Law: An Introduction Fox, MICHAEL V., Review of Jones: Rumors of
BROWN, JONATHAN, Review of Motzki: Analysing Wisdom: Job 28 as Poetry
Muslim Traditions: Studies in Legal, Exegetical FRIED, LISBETH S., Review of Blenkinsopp: Juda-
and Maghdazi Hadith ism: The First Phase: The Place of Ezra and
BULAKH, MARIA, and LEONID KOGAN, South Ethi- Nehemiah in the Origins of Judaism
opian Pronouns and Verbs in an Arab Gram- GADOTTI, ALHENA: Portraits of the Feminine in
matical Text Revisited after Seventy Years .. . . Sumerian Literature
BUTTS, AARON MICHAEL: Reduplicated Nominal GALAMBOS, IMRE: Popular Character Forms (Siizi)
Patterns in Semitic and Semantic Compound (Huiy?) Characters in
Cal, LIANG: Excavating the Genealogy of Clas- Medieval Chinese Manuscripts
sical Studies in the Western Han Dynasty (206 GELDER, GEERT JAN VAN, Review of Hussein:
oe FS Oat2 a ae ae en eee The Lightning-Scene in Ancient Arabic Poetry:
CLOONEY SJ, FRANCIS X., Review of Benson, Function, Narration and Idiosyncrasy in Pre-
ed. and tr.: Mimamsanyadyasamgraha: A Com- Islamic and Early Islamic Poetry
pendium of the Principles of Mimamsa by HABERL, CHARLES G., Review of Voigt, ed.:
Mahddera Vedantin Und das Leben ist siegreich! Manddische und
COHN, YEHUDAH B.: The Graeco-Roman Trade samaritanische Literatur
Fair and the Rabbis ...................... , Review of Kapeliuk: Selected Papers
CROWELL, BRADLEY, Review of Matthews: Study- in Ethiosemitic and Neo-Aramaic Linguistics . .
ing the Ancient Israelites: A Guide to Sources ______, Review of Fassberg: The Jewish Neo-
and Methods Aramaic Dialect of Challa
Contents, Volume 131
HANDEL, ZEV, Review of de Voogt and Finkel, MACEVITT, CHRISTOPHER H., Review of
eds.: The Idea of Writing: Play and Complexity 494 Sizgorich: Violence and Belief in Late Antiq-
HARVEY, STEVEN, Review of Taylor, tr.: Aver- uity: Militant Devotion in Christianity and
roes’ Long Commentary on the De Anima of
Aristotle 491 MAGNESS, JopI, Review of Milwright: An /ntro-
HARY, BENJAMIN, Review of Geva-Kleinberger: duction to Islamic Archaeology
Autochthonous Texts in the Arabic Dialect of MANRING, REBECCA, Review of Stewart: The
the Jews of Tiberia 334 Final Word: The Caitanya Caritamrta and the
HELLER, NATASHA: Why Has the Rhinoceros Grammar of Religious Tradition
Come from the West? An Excursus into the MEYER, ESIAS E., Review of Otto: Die Tora: Stu-
Religious, Literary, and Environmental History dien zum Pentateuch. Gesammelte Aufséitze .. .
of the Tang Dynasty MILIZIA, PAOLO: On the Origin of the Middle
HUEHNERGARD, JOHN, Review of Voigt, ed.: Indic Future Suffix -hi-
Akten des 7. internationalen Semitohamitisten- MILLARD, ALAN, Review of Sass and Marzahn:
kongresses, Berlin 2004 Aramaic and Figural Stamp Impressions on
HUNTER, MICHAEL, Review of Sterckx: Food, Bricks of the Sixth Century B.c. from Babylon .
Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China MILLER, RUTH A., Review of Shefer-Mossensohn:
JAMISON, STEPHANIE W., Review of Shulman and Ottoman Medicine: Healing and Medical Insti-
Weil, eds.: Karmic Passages: Israeli Scholar- tutions, 1500-1700
ship on India; Shulman, ed.: Language, Ritual Mojg, JAN, Review of Widmaier: Landschaften
and Poetics in Ancient India and Iran: Studies und ihre Bilder in dgyptischen Texten des
in Honor of Shaul Migron zweiten Jahrtausends v. Chr
JAMISON, STEPHANIE W.: The Secret Lives of MOoNIUS, ANNE, Review of Selby and Peterson,
Texts (Presidential Address) eds.: Tamil Geographies: Cultural Construc-
KAIMAL, PADMA, Review of Gillet: La créa- tions of Space and Place in South India
tion d’une iconographie Sivaite narrative: MONTGOMERY, JAMES E.: Why al-Jahiz Needs
Incarnations du dieu dans les temples pallava Slonimsky’s Earbox
construits MOuRAD, SULEIMAN A., Review of Hamza et al.,
KATZ, JOSHUA T., Review of Chrisomalis: Numeri- eds.: An Anthology of Qur’anic Commentaries,
cal Notation: A Comparative History vol. 1: On the Nature of the Divine
KIENER, RONALD C., Review of Stroumsa: Mai- MULDER, STEPHENNIE, Review of Blair and
monides in His World: Portrait of a Mediterra- Bloom, eds.: Rivers of Paradise: Water in
nean Thinker Islamic Art and Culture
KiM, RONALD I., Review of Haberl: The Neo- NAAMAN, EREZ, Review of Wagner: Like Joseph
Mandaic Dialect of Khorramshahr in Beauty: Yemeni Vernacular Poetry and
KLEIN, JARED S., Review of Dahi: Time, Tense Arab-Jewish Symbiosis .........0.0000000 +
and Aspect in Early Vedic Grammar: Exploring NISSAN, EPHRAIM: On a Mystery of Talmudic
Inflectional Semantics in the Rigveda Zoonymy: The Parrot and the Myna? A Reas-
KOGAN, LEONID: See BULAKH, MARIA. sessment of the Identity of the Two andrafta
KNUTSON, JESSE Ross, Review of Broquet: Bird Species
La Geste de Rama: Poeéme a double sens de PACE, LEANN, Review of Duistermaat: The Pots
Sandhyakaranandin (Introduction, texte, tra- and Potters of Assyria: Technology and Organ-
duction, analyse) isation of Production, Ceramic Sequence and
KOCKELMANN, HOLGER, Review of Stadler: Weiser Vessel Function at Late Bronze Age Tell Sabi
und Wesir: Studien zu Vorkommen, Rolle und Abyad, Syria
Wesen des Gottes Thot am dgyptischen Totenbuch PATEL, DEVEN M.: Source, Exegesis, and Transla-
KONG XURONG: Origins of Verisimilitude: A tion: Sanskrit Commentary and Regional Lan-
Reconsideration of Medieval Chinese Literary guage Translation in South Asia
History PAT-EL, NA’AMA, Review of Goldenberg and
KRAWIETZ, BIRGIT, Review of El-Zein: /slam, Shisha-Halevy, eds.: Egyptian, Semitic and
Arabs and the Intelligent World of the Jinn ... General Grammar: Studies in Memory of H. J.
LAWSON, TODD, Review of Mayer, tr.: Keys to the Polotsky
Arcana: Shahrastani’s Esoteric Commentary , Review of Blau: Phonology and Mor-
on the Qur’an: A Translation of the Commen- phology of Biblical Hebrew: An Introduction .
tary of Sirat al-Fatiha from Muhammad b. ‘Abd PECHILIS, KAREN, Review of Venkatesan, tr.:
al-Karim Shahrastani’s Mafatih al-asrar wa The Secret Garland: Antal’s Tiruppavai and
masabih al-abrar Nacciyar Tirumoli
LEE, SONYA, Review of Tsiang et al.: Echoes of PECK, WILLIAM H., Review of Thompson and Der
the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiang- Manuelian, eds.: Egypt and Beyond: Essays
tangshan Presented io Leonard H. Lesko upon His
LIVERANI, MARIO, Review of Prato: Jdentita e Retirement from the Wilbour Chair of Egyptol-
memoria nell’Israele antico ogy at Brown University, June 2005
Lop, JAUME: The Creation of the Middle Assyr- , Review of Brand and Cooper, eds.:
ian Provinces Causing His Name to Live: Studies in Egyptian
Contents, Volume 131
Epigraphy and History in Memory of William J. SHAHAM, RON: /stikshdf in Islamic Jurisprudence
Murnane and Modern Law
PETERS, RUDOLPH, Review of Shaham: The SHAYEGAN, M. RAHIM, Review of Cantera: Stu-
Expert Witness in Islamic Courts: Medicine dien zur Pahlavi-Ubersetzung des Avesta, ed.
and Crafts in the Service of Law
PRYKE, LOUISE M.: The Many Complaints to SIMPSON, MARIANNA SHREVE, Review of Gruber,
Pharoah of Rib-Addi of Byblos ed.: The Islamic Manuscript Tradition: Ten
QUACK, JOACHIM FRIEDRICH, Review of Allen: Centuries of Book Arts in Indiana University
The Debate between a Man and His Soul: A Collections
Masterpiece of Ancient Egyptian Literature .. . SKJAERV@, PRODS OKTOR, Review of Gyselen,
RADINE, JASON, Review of Edelman and Ben Zvi, ed.: Sources pour l'histoire et la géographie du
eds.: The Production of Prophecy: Construct- monde iranien (224-710)
ing Prophecy and Prophets in Yehud SPALINGER, ANTHONY, Review of Steele, ed.: Cal-
RADWIN, ARIELLA, Review of Sacks: Midrash and endars and Years: Astronomy and Time in the
Multiplicity: Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer and the Ancient Near East
Renewal of Rabbinic Interpretive Culture STEARNS, JUSTIN, Review of Dallal: slam, Sci-
REISMAN, DAVID C., Review of Langermann, ed.: ence, and the Challenge of History
Avicenna and His Legacy: A Golden Age of SURIANO, MATTHEW J., Review of Jigoulov: The
Science and Philosophy Social History of Achaemenid Phoenicia:
REYMOND, ERIC D., Review of DuSek: Les Manu- Being a Phoenician, Negotiating Empires ....
scrits araméens du Wadi Daliyeh et la Samarie SZPAKOWSKA, KASIA, Review of Wilkinson, ed.:
vers 450-332 av. J.-C. Egyptology Today
, Review of Sokoloff: A Syriac Lexi- TAS, ILKNUR, Review of Hoffner: Letters from the
con: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Hittite Kingdom
Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann’s TEETER, EMILY, Review of Marochetti: The
Lexicon Syriacum Reliefs of the Chapel of Nebhepetra Mentuho-
, Review of Elayi: Byblos, cité sacrée tep at Gebelein (CGT 7003/1-277)
(8°—4° s. av. J.-C.) TEFFETELLER, ANNETTE, Review of Yakubovich:
RIPPIN, ANDREW, Review of Neuwirth et al., eds.: Sociolinguistics oft he Luvian Language
The Qur?an in Context: Historical and Literary TESTEN, DAVID: Iranian and Anatolian Cognates
Investigations into the Qur?nic Milieu to Greek (k)suin
Rizvi, SAJJAD H.: Mir Damad in India: Islamic TILLIER, MATHIEU: The Qddis of Fustat—Misr
Philosophical Traditions and the Problem of under the Tiliinids and the Ikhshidids: The
Creation Judiciary and Egyptian Autonomy
ROBINSON, CHASE F, Review of Powers: TRABOULSI, SAMER, Review of Friedman: The
Muhammad Is Not the Father of Any of Your Nusayri-‘Alawis: An Introduction to the Reli-
Men: The Making of the Last Prophet gion, History and Identity of the Leading
ROCHER, LUDO, Review of Colas and Gersch- Minority in Syria
heimer, eds.: Ecrire et transmettre en Inde clas- TUGENDHAFT, AARON, Review of Sanders: The
Invention of Hebrew
ROCHER, ROSANE, Review of Bhattacharya: Les VAN AUKEN, NEWELL ANN: Who is a rén A? The
intellectuels bengalis et l’impérialisme bri- Use of rén in Spring and Autumn Records and
tannique. Bengali Intellectuals and British Its Interpretation in the Zud, Gdngydng, and
Imperialism Gilidng Commentaries
ROXBURGH, DAVID J., Review of O’ Kane, ed.: The VAN SETERS, JOHN, Review of Reventlow: His-
Iconography of Islamic Art: Studies in Honour tory of Biblical Interpretation, vol. 1: From the
of Robert Hillenbrand Old Testament to Origen; Reventlow: History
SCHARF, PETER M.: On the Semantic Foundation of Biblical Interpretation, vol. 2: From Late
of Paninian Derivational Procedure: The Deri- Antiquity to the End of the Middle Ages
vation of kumbhakara VAN STEENBERGEN, JO: The Amir Yalbugha
, Review of Grimal et al., Pdnini- al-Khassaki, the Qalawiinid Sultanate, and the
yavyadkaranodaharanakosah: La grammaire Cultural Matrix of Mamluk Society: A Reas-
paninéenne par ses exemples; Paninian sessment of Mamlik Politics in the 1360s ....
Grammar through Its Examples, vol. 1.2: VERSTEEGH, KEES, Review of Macdonald, ed.:
Tinantaprakaranam 2: Le livre des formes The Development ofA rabic as a Written Lan-
conjuguées 2; The Book of Conjugated Forms
2 VIKOR, KNUT S., Review of Tillier: Les cadis
SCHMITZ, PHILIP C., Review of Kerr: Latino- d'Iraq et l'état abbasside (132/750-334/945) .
Punic Epigraphy VOLLANDT, RONNY, Review of Hary: Translating
SCHWARTZ, GLENN M., Review of Meyer: Religion: Linguistic Analysis of Judeo-Arabic
Tell Chuera: Vorberichte zu den Grabungs> Sacred Texts from Egypt
kampagnen 1998 bis 2005 WASSERSTEIN, DAVID J., Review of Dodds et al.,
SCURLOCK, JOANN, Review of Finkel and Geller, eds.: The Arts ofI ntimacy: Christians, Jews, and
eds.: Disease in Babylonia Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture ...
Contents, Volume 131
WATENPAUGH, HEGHNAR, Review of Kenney: YAKUBOVICH, ILYA, Review of Baines et al., eds.:
Power and Patronage in Medieval Syria: The The Disappearance of Writing Systems: Per-
Architecture and Urban Works of Tankiz al- spectives on Literacy and Communication ....
Nasiri YOFFEE, NORMAN, Review of Bolger and
WHEELER, BRANNON, Review of Katz: The Birth Maguire, eds.: The Development of Pre-State
of the Prophet Muhammad: Devotional Piety in Communities in the Ancient Near East: Studies
Sunni Islam in Honour of Edgar Peltenburg
WHITE, DAVID GORDON, Review of Dyczkowski: ZARINEBAF, FARIBA, Review of Singer: Charity in
Manthanabhairavatantram Kumarikakhandah: Islamic Societies
The Section Concerning the Virgin Goddess of ZEEVI, DROR, Review of Semerdjian: “Off the
the Tantra of the Churning Bhairava 295 Straight Path”: Illicit Sex, Law, and Commu-
WITHERINGTON, BEN: Review of Flusser and nity in Ottoman Aleppo
Notley: The Sage from Galilee: Rediscovering
Jesus’ Genius
LIST OF BOOKS REVIEWED
ALLEN: The Debate between a Man and His Soul: DuSEK: Les Manuscrits araméens du Wadi Dali-
A Masterpiece of Ancient Egyptian Literature yeh et la Samarie vers 450-332 av. J.-C. (Eric
(Joachim Friedrich Quack) D. Reymond)
ANTHONIOZ: L’eau, enjeux politiques et théolo- DyYCZKOWSKI: Manthadnabhairavatantram Kuma-
giques, de Sumera la Bible (Ariei M. Bagg) .. . rikakhandah: The Section Concerning the
BAINES et al., eds.: The Disappearance of Writing Virgin Goddess of the Tantra of the Churning
Systems: Perspectives on Literacy and Commu- Bhairava (David Gordon White) 295
nication (Ilya Yakubovich) EDELMAN and BEN ZVI, eds.: The Production of
BEHZADI: Sprache und Verstehen: Al-Gahiz iiber Prophecy: Constructing Prophecy and Proph-
die Vollkommenheit des Ausdrucks (James E. ets in Yehud (Jason Radine) 670
Montgomery, “Why al-Jahiz Needs Slonim- EL-ZEIN: Islam, Arabs and the Intelligent World of
sky’s Earbox”) the Jinn (Birgit Krawietz) 479
BENSON, ed. and tr.: Mimamsdnyadyasamgraha: A ELAYI: Byblos, cité sacrée (8°—4¢ s. av. J.-C.) (Eric
Compendium of the Principles of Mimamsa, by D. Reymond) 463
Mahadeva Vedantin (Francis X. Clooney, SJ) FASSBERG: The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of
BHATTACHARYA: Les intellectuels bengalis et Challa (Charles G. Hiberl) 322
l’impérialisme britannique. Bengali Intellectu- FINKEL and GELLER, eds.: Disease in Babylonia
als and British Imperialism (Rosane Rocher) . . (JoAnn Scurlock) 156
BLAIR and BLOoM, eds.: Rivers of Paradise: Water FLEMING and MILSTEIN: The Buried Foundation
in Islamic Art and Culture (Stephennie Mulder) of the Gilgamesh Epic: The Akkadian Huwawa
BLAU: Phonology and Morphology of Biblical Narrative (Benjamin R. Foster)
Hebrew: An Introduction (Na’ama Pat-E]) ... . FLUSSER and NOTLEY: The Sage from Galilee:
BLENKINSOPP: Judaism: The First Phase: The Rediscovering Jesus’ Genius (Ben Withering-
Place of Ezra and Nehemiah in the Origins of ton, III)
Judaism (Lisbeth S. Fried) FRIEDMAN: The Nusayri-‘Alawis: An Introduc-
BODEL and OLYAN, eds.: Household and Family tion to the Religion, History and Identity of the
Religion in Antiquity (Nicoletta Bellotto) Leading Minority in Syria (Samer Traboulsi) . .
BOLGER and MAGUIRE, eds.: The Development GEVA-KLEINBERGER: Autochthonous Texts in the
of Pre-State Communities in the Ancient Near Arabic Dialect of the Jews of Tiberia (Benja-
East: Studies in Honour of Edgar Peltenburg min Hary)
(Norman Yoffee) GILLET: La création d’une iconographie Sivaite
BRAND and Cooper, eds.: Causing His Name to narrative: Incarnations du dieu dans les tem-
Live: Studies in Egyptian Epigraphy and His- ples pallava construits (Padma Kaimal)
tory in Memory of William J. Murnane (Wil- GOLDENBERG and SHISHA-HALEVY, eds.: Egyp-
liam H. Peck) tian, Semitic and General Grammar: Studies in
BROQUET: La Geste de Rama: Poéme & double sens Memory of H. J. Polotsky (Na’ama Pat-E]) .. . .
de Sandhyakaranandin (Introduction, texte, tra- GRIMAL et al., Paniniyavyakaranodaharanako-
duction, analyse) (Jesse Ross Knutson) Sah: La grammaire paninéenne par ses exem-
CALLAHAM: Modality and the Biblical Hebrew ples; Paninian Grammar through Its Examples,
Infinitive Absolute (Joel Baden) vol. III.2: Tinantaprakaranam 2: Le livre des
CANTERA: Studien zur Pahlavi-Ubersetzung des formes conjuguées 2; The Book of Conjugated
Avesta (M. Rahim Shayegan) Forms 2 (Peter M. Scharf)
CHRISOMALIS: Numerical Notation: A Compara- GRUBER, ed.: The Islamic Manuscript Tradition:
tive History (Joshua T. Katz) Ten Centuries of Book Arts in Indiana Univer-
COLAS and GERSCHHEIMER, eds.: Ecrire et trans- sity Collections (Marianna Shreve Simpson) . .
mettre en Inde classique (Ludo Rocher) GYSELEN, ed.: Sources pour l'histoire et la géo-
DAHL: Time, Tense and Aspect in Early Vedic graphie du monde iranien (224-710) (Prods
Grammar: Exploring Inflectional Semantics in Oktor Skjaerv@)
the Rigveda (Jared S. Klein) HABERL: The Neo-Mandaic Dialect of Khorram-
DALE: The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, shahr (Ronald I. Kim)
Safavids, and Mughals (Karen Barkey) HACKETT: A Basic Introduction to Biblical
DALLAL: Islam, Science, and the Challenge of Hebrew (James M. Bos)
History (Justin Stearns) HALLAQ: Shari‘a: Theory, Practice, Transforma-
DopDs et al., eds.: The Arts of Intimacy: Chris- tions (Mohammad Fadel: “A Tragedy of Poli-
tians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Cas- tics or an Apolitical Tragedy?”’)
tilian Culture (David J. Wasserstein) HAMZA et al., eds.: An Anthology of Qur’anic
DUISTERMAAT: The Pots and Potters of Assyria: Commentaries, vol. 1: On the Nature of the
Technology and Organisation of Production, Divine (Suleiman A. Mourad)
Ceramic Sequence and Vessel Function at Late HART: The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra
Bronze Age Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria (Leann Pace) 303 (David Prager Branner)
Viii Contents, Volume 131
Hary: Translating Religion: Linguistic Analy- MEYER: Tell Chuera: Vorberichte zu den Gra-
sis of Judeo-Arabic Sacred Texts from Egypt bungskampagnen 1998 bis 2005 (Glenn M.
(Ronny Vollandt) Schwartz)
HENDEL, ed.: Reading Genesis: Ten Methods (Joel MILWRIGHT: An Introduction to Islamic Archaeol-
ogy (Jodi Magness)
HOFFNER: Letters from the Hittite Kingdom MOTZKI: Analysing Muslim Traditions: Studies in
(ilknur Tas) Legal, Exegetical and Maghazi Hadith (Jona-
HUSSEIN: The Lightning-Scene in Ancient Arabic than Brown)
Poetry: Function, Narration and Idiosyncrasy NEUWIRTH et al., eds.: The Qur?an in Context:
in Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Poetry (Geert Historical and Literary Investigations into the
Jan van Gelder) Quranic Milieu (Andrew Rippin)
ISAKSSON et al.: Circumstantial Qualifiers in Semitic: NOEGEL and RENDSBURG: Solomon’s Vineyard:
The Case ofA rabic and Hebrew (Lutz Edzard) . . . Literary and Linguistic Studies in the Song of
JARICKE: Regionaler Kult und lokaler Kult: Stu- Songs (J. Andrew Dearman)
dien zur Kult- und Religionsgeschichte Israeis Orrto: Die Tora: Studien zum Pentateuch. Gesam-
und Judas im 9. und 8. Jahrhundert v. Chr. melte Aufsdtze (Esias E. Meyer)
(Gary Beckman) O’KANE, ed.: The Iconography of Islamic Art:
JIGOULOV: The Social History of Achaemenid Studies in Honour of Robert Hillenbrand
Phoenicia: Being a Phoenician, Negotiating (David J. Roxburgh)
Empires (Matthew J. Suriano) POWERS: Muhammad Is Not the Father of Any
JONES: Rumors of Wisdom: Job 28 as Poetry of Your Men: The Making of the Last Prophet
(Michael V. Fox) (Chase F. Robinson)
KAPELIUK: Selected Papers in Ethiosemitic and PRATO: Identita e memoria nell’Israele antico
Neo-Aramaic Linguistics (Charles G. Haberl) . (Mario Liverani).
Katz: The Birth of the Prophet Muhammad: PUMMER: The Samaritans in Flavius Josephus
Devotional Piety in Sunni Islam (Brannon (Doug Finkbeiner)
Wheeler) REVENTLOW: History of Biblical Interpretation,
KENNEY: Power and Patronage in Medieval vol. 1: From the Old Testament to Origen; vol.
Syria: The Architecture and Urban Works of 2: From Late Antiquity to the End of the Middle
Tankiz al- Nasiri (Heghnar Watenpaugh) Ages (John Van Seters)
KERR: Latino-Punic Epigraphy (Philip C. Schmitz) SACKS: Midrash and Multiplicity: Pirke de-Rabbi
KLOOS: Tibetan Medicine among the Buddhist Eliezer and the Renewal of Rabbinic Interpre-
Dards of Ladakh (Martijn van Beek) tive Culture (Ariella Radwin)
KUHNE, ed.: Diir-Katlimmu 2008 and Beyond SANDERS: The Invention of Hebrew (Aaron
(Gary Beckman) Tugendhaft)
LANGERMANN, ed.: Avicenna and His Legacy: A SASS and MARZAHN: Aramaic and Figural Stamp
Golden Age of Science and Philosophy (David Impressions on Bricks of the Sixth Century B.c.
C. Reisman) from Babylon (Alan Millard)
LOADER: Sexuality and the Jesus Tradition; SCHEINER: Die Eroberung von Damaskus: Quellen-
Enoch, Levi, and Jubilees on Sexuality: Atti- kritische Untersuchung zur Historiographie in
tudes towards Sexuality in the Early Enoch klassisch-islamischer Zeit (Herbert Berg)
Literature, the Aramaic Levi Document, and the SELBY and PETERSON, eds.: Tamil Geographies:
Book of Jubilees; The Pseudepigrapha on Sexu- Cultural Constructions of Space and Place in
ality: Attitudes towards Sexuality in Apocalyptic South India (Anne Monius)
Testaments, Legends, Wisdom, and Related Lit- SEMERDIJIAN: “Off the Straight Path”: Illicit Sex,
erature (J. Harold Ellens) Law, and Community in Ottoman Aleppo (Dror
LUBIN et al., eds.: Hinduism and Law: An Intro-
duction (David Brick) SHAHAM: The Expert Witness in Islamic Courts:
MACDONALD, ed.: The Development of Arabic as Medicine and Crafts in the Service of Law
a Written Language (Kees Versteegh) (Rudolph Peters)
MARAZZI: Sammlung hieroglyphischer Siegel, vol. SHEFER-MOSSENSOHN: Ottoman Medicine: Heal-
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SIZGORICH: Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity: TILLIER: Les cadis d’Iraq et l'état abbasside
Militant Devotion in Christianity and Islam (132/750-334/945) (Knut S. Vikgr)
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