American Oriental Society

(Revised 03/27/98)

Last Minute Program Changes and Additions

Sectional and Other Meeting Room Locations in the DoubleTree New Orleans

2:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Meeting, Editorial Board, JAOS

9:30 a.m.-12:00 noon. Meeting, Board of Directors

1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Registration

2:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Book Exhibit

1:30-5:30 Sunday Afternoon Sectional Meetings

A. Ancient Near East I: AOS/NACAL: Linguistics. John Huehnergard, Chair

1.

Alan S. Kaye, California State University, Fullerton

Indo-European and Semitic Once Again

2.

Steven E. Fassberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

A Contribution of Western Neo-Aramaic to Aramaic Lexicology:
RWT/RHT and RH`

3.

Joseph L. Malone, Barnard College and Columbia University

The Reconstruction of Babylonian Aramaic and the Problem of Tiberian-based Schematisierung

4

Judith Rosenhouse, Technion I. I. T., Haifa

Computerized Programs of Literary Arabic at the Technion

5.

Gonzalo Rubio, Johns Hopkins University

Was Sumerian a Creole?

6.

David Testen, University of Chicago

Pisiyahuvada- in the Bisitun Inscription

7.

H. Craig Melchert, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Hittite tuk(kan)zi- `Cultivation, Breeding'

8.

Joshua T. Katz, Harvard University and Princeton University

The Curious Case of the Hittite Mustelid

9.

Stuart H. Sargent, Colorado State University

Analogous Structures in Japanese and Chinese Poetry

10.

Edward Peng, University of Utah

Zen and the Heideggerian Sense of Time and Being

11.

Shu-hui Wu, Columbus State University

On Taiwanese Historical Poetry

12.

Jacob Lassner, Northwestern University

Some Reflections on the Reign of al-Mutawakkil

13.

Michael Cook, Princeton University

A Koranic Codex Inherited by Mâlik from His Grand-father

14.

Li Guo, University of Chicago

The Qusayr Arabic Documents (Season 1982)

15.

Ilai Alon, Tel Aviv University

Was the Horse Really White? Images and messages in reports on negotiations

(Break)

16.

Ralph S. Hattox, Hampden-Sydney College

Khan and Khaqan: Application of Turkic titulature in an Islamic context

17.

Barbara Kellner-Heinkele, Institut für Turkologie

The Personality of Sa`adet Gerey Khan III

18.

Scott S. Reese, Xavier University of Louisiana

"Stories which Persist on the Tongue": Orality, literacy and the maintenance of Somali urban identity

D. South and Southeast Asia I: Religion, Philosophy, Medicine. Patrick Olivelle, Chair.

19.

H. W. Bodewitz, Kern Institute, Leiden University

Yonder World in the Atharvaveda

20.

Timothy Lubin, Washington and Lee University

Initiation and Veda-study in the Development of Early Brahmanism

21.

Christopher Z. Minkowski, Cornell University

Dara Shikuh's "Prasnottaravali"

22.

Gudrun Bühnemann, University of Wisconsin

Tantric Deity Descriptions (dhyana) and Their Iconographic Significance

(Break)

23.

James L. Fitzgerald, University of Tennessee

Dharma in the Mahabharata and its Translation

24.

Wilhelm Halbfass, University of Pennsylvania

Goals of Life: The purusartha Doctrine in Indian Philosophical Reflection

25.

Rahul Peter Das, Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg

Sanskrit sardigrdi

26.

Hartmut Scharfe, University of California, Los Angeles

The tri-dosa-theory in Indian Medicine

Special Session: Reminiscences and Presentations in Honor of Michael Astour. Gordon Young, Presiding

8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Registration

8:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Book Exhibit

8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Breakfast for Graduate Students (All graduate students and recent PhD's, all AOS fields, are invited for breakfast and discussion. Inquiries to Martha Roth)

9:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.. Monday Morning Sectional Meetings

A. Ancient Near East II: Law and Society. Matthew W. Stolper, Chair (9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.)

27.

William W. Hallo, Yale University

Share-cropping Provisions in the Edict of Ammi-saduqa

28.

Bernard M. Levinson, University of Minnesota and Institute for Advanced Study

The Collapsing Wall: A Lost Chapter of Ancient Near Eastern Legal History

29.

Samuel Greengus, Hebrew Union College

New Data on the Old Babylonian Calendar of Sippar

30.

Lauren Shedletsky, New York University

Female Roles in the Gilgamesh Epic

31.

A. J. Ferrara, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Why the Tears Inanna? The Ur versions of Inanna's descent

32.

Janice Polonsky, University of Pennsylvania

The King Also Rises: The Royal relationship to the Sun God in Mesopotamia

33.

Richard E. Averbeck, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Clause Syntax, Macrostructure, and Discourse Analysis in Sumerian Literary Texts: A Preliminary investigation

34.

Piotr Michalowski, University of Michigan

A Man Named Enmebaragesi

34a.

Miguel Civil, University of Chicago

Reading Gilgamesh: History and stories

34b.

Tzvi Abusch, Brandeis University

Eating Witchcraft and Being Bewitched: Some Psychological and social aspects of Mesopotamian witchcraft

35.

David B. Honey, BrighamYoung University

The Relationship of the Shih-chi and Han-shu as Seen in the Light of Traditional Textual Criticism

36.

Paul W. Kroll, University of Colorado

Wang Wei's Poetry in the Eyes of His Contemporaries

37.

Stephen H. West, University of California-Berkeley

The Necessity of Authority, Determinacy, and Right Reading in the Song

38.

Ping-leung Chan, Lingnan College, Hong Kong

The Dawn Songs in The Book of Songs

39.

Chauncey S. Goodrich, University of California-Santa Barbara

The Hsü Hou-Han-shu of Hao Ching

40.

Denis Sinor, Indiana University

Paul Pelliot: Personal Memories

·

Lawrence Conrad, Wellcome Institute, London

·

Michael Cook, Princeton University

·

Fred Donner, University of Chicago

·

Rebecca Foote, Harvard University

·

Chase Robinson, Oxford University

41.

Mark Allon, University of Washington

Insights into the Composition, Transmission and Function of Buddhist Literature Based On a Formulaic Analysis of Pali Canonical Prose

42.

Ulrich Pagel, University of Washington

The Ratnacudapariprccha: Patterns in Buddhist practice

43.

Timothy Lenz, University of Washington

Buddhist Birth Stories from Afghanistan: A Preliminary report on an early Buddhist manuscript recently acquired by the British Library

(Break)

44.

Daniel Boucher, Franklin and Marshall College

Evidence for the Transmission of Kharosthi Buddhist Texts to China: A New approach

45.

Jason Neelis, University of Washington

The Languages of Buddhist Transmission as Reflected in Kharosthi and Brahmi Graffiti Inscriptions from Northern Pakistan

46.

Richard Salomon, University of Washington

A Gandhari Version of the "Rhinoceros' Horn Sutra"

12:45 p.m.-1:45 p.m. Meeting, American Schools of Oriental Research, Baghdad Committee. Paul Zimansky, Presiding

2:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Monday Afternoon Sectional Meetings

A. Ancient Near East IV: Archaeology. David Owen, Chair (2:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.)

47.

Ronald Wallenfels, Ramapo College

On "Continuity and Change" in the Late Fourth Century Babylonia: A Contribution from the sealed archival texts

48.

Lisbeth S. Fried, New York University

The High Places (Bamot) and the Reforms of Hezekiah and Josiah

49.

Carolina A. Aznar, Harvard University

Tell Abu Hawam (Ancient Seaport of Haifa, Israel): Stratum III and the Phoenecian expansion to the West

(Break)

50.

Karen S. Rubinson, Archaeological Institute of America

Silver and Sealings: Transcaucasia and Anatolia in the Middle Bronze Age

51.

Clemens Reichel, University of Chicago

Seals and Sealings from Tell Asmar: A New look at the nature and function of an Old Babylonian palace

52.

Paul Zimansky, Boston University

Rusa II's Building Program and the End of the Kingdom of Van

53.

Wael Hallaq, McGill University

The Qadi's Sijill Before the Ottomans

54.

Susan Spectorsky, Queens College, CUNY

Jurists Around Ibn Hanbal

55.

Muhammad Amanullah, University of Utah

Is Just Retribution for Intentional Bodily Harm Based Entirely upon Ijma`?

(Break)

56.

John Makdisi, Loyola University New Orleans

The Islamic Origins of the Common Law

57.

Jeanette Wakin, Columbia University

The Qadi's Decisions and their Written Record

58.

Lutz Wiederhold, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle

Remarks on Maliki Judges in Mamluk Egypt and Syria

59.

David S. Powers, Cornell University

Familial Politics in Fourteenth-Century Algeria: Parents and Their Minor Children

59a.

Bernard Haykel, New York University

Muhammad b. `Ali al-Shawkani's Pedagogy and the Reproduction of Mujtahids

60.

Gary Holland, University of California, Berkeley

Vedic Meter and Indo-European laryngeals

61.

A. Lubotsky, Leiden University

The Indo-Aryan Word for `Six' and the Loss of Voiced Sibilants

62.

Benjamin W. Fortson IV, Harvard and Northeastern Universities

On the Verbal Abstracts in -a and the Periphrastic Perfect

63.

Peter M. Scharf, Brown University

Interrogatives and Word-order in Sanskrit

(Break)

64.

George van Driem, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden

Epistemic Verbal Categories in Dzongkha

65.

Ashok Aklujkar, University of British Columbia

An Intriguing Reading in the Kavya-Prakasa of Mammata

66.

George Cardona, University of Pennsylvania

Patañjali and later Paniniyas on Astadhyayi 3.3.18

67.

Alex Wayman, Columbia University

Remarks on the un-Paninian Expressions in Indic Texts

8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Book Exhibit

8:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Plenary Session: Blood. Chauncey S. Goodrich, Chair

68.

Baruch A. Levine, New York University (Ancient Near East)

Blood

69.

TBA (East Asia)

Title to be announced

70.

TBA (Inner Asia)

Title to be announced

71.

Suzanne Stetkevych, Indiana University (Islamic Near East)

Blood Economy in Tribal Arabia

72.

Patrick Olivelle, University of Texas (South and Southeast Asia)

Blood and Purity in Ancient India

A. Ancient Near East V: History and Culture. Jack Sasson, Chair (2:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.)

73.

Leo Depuydt, Brown University

Alexander of Macedon (356-323 BCE): The Chronology of his life

74.

Peter Feinman, Columbia University

Amorites and Canaanites in Iron II Israel

75.

Daniel C. Snell, University of Oklahoma

The Ancient Near East in Patterson's Slavery and Social Death

76.

Eva von Dassow, New York University

Political History from Administrative Records, or Alalah Prepares for War

(Break)

77.

Michael Kozuh, University of Chicago

Stairways and Inscriptions at Persepolis

78.

Mario Liverani, University of Rome La Sapienza

The Cautious Advisers of the Amarna Pharaohs

79.

Stephen A. Kaufman, Hebrew Union College

The Phoenician Text of the Incirli Trilingual: Ductus, language, and content

80.

Bruce Zuckerman, University of Southern California

Methodological Considerations in the Study of Northwest Semitic inscriptions: the Incirli trilingual

81.

Karen Nemet-Nejat, Yale University

Economic and Administrative Texts from 562-556 BCE in the Babylonian Collection at Yale University

B. Islam IV: Literature. Lois Giffen, Chair (2:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.)

82.

Ruqayya Khan, University of Pennsylvania

Qatil al-Hawa: Two blood vengeance motifs in early Arabic love literature

83.

Julia Ashtiany Bray, University of St. Andrews,

The Heroic Prose Background to Abu Tammam's Amorium Qasida

84.

Philip F. Kennedy, New York University

On Poetry and Prose: The Maqâma Wa`ziyya of al-Hamadhânî

85.

Beatrice Gruendler, Yale University

Emulation and Plagiarism in the Poetry of Ibn Darraj al-Qastalli

(Break)

86.

Peter Heath, Washington University

Line, Topos, and Convention: The Role of Ma`ani in Arabic poetics

87.

Elizabeth M. Bergman, University of Georgia

Memory and Mediation in an Early Grammatical Mnenomic

88

Fatemeh Keshavarz, Washington University, St. Louis

Observing the Poems in Action: Aa New approach to mystical lyric

89.

John M. Crofoot, University of Georgia

Narrative Structure and Temporality in the Ottoman and Arabic Chronicles: Ashiqpashazade, Neshri, and Ibn Arabshah

90.

Rahim Shayegan, Harvard University

Sasanian Inscriptions and the Oral Formulaic Theory

91.

Jan E. M. Houben, Leiden University

The Ritual Pragmatics of a Vedic Hymn: Rgveda 1.164, the Pravargya, and the Intermediate Initiation (Avantaradiska).

92.

Stephanie W. Jamison, Harvard University

Rigvedic visvátah sim, or Why Syntax Needs Poetics

93.

Signe Jansen Cohen, University of Pennsylvania

The Relative Chronology of the Older Upanisads

(Break)

94.

Michael Shapiro, University of Washington

Metrical Syncopation in Medieval Hindi Poetry

95.

Theodore Proferes, Harvard University

Sakhya-from the Vedas through the Epics: the Historical continuity of a social institution and its protocols

96.

Vidyut Aklujkar, University of British Columbia

The Sita-Lopamudra Samvada in the Ananda-Ramayana: A battle of myths

97.

P. Oktor Skjaervo, Harvard University

An Indo-European epic warrior type: Zarathustra and Diomedes

98

Ray Chandrasekara, University of California, Berkeley

Writing Ground Zero: Nationalist imaginings in the Hikayat Hang Tuah

6:15 p.m.-7:15 p.m. Social Hour (Cash Bar)

7:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m. Annual Subscription Dinner

Presidential Address (Near the Conclusion of the Dinner, at approximately 9:30 p.m.)

Stanley Insler, Yale University

To Tell the Truth

9:00 a.m.-12:00 noon. Book Sale Continues

9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Wednesday Morning Sectional Meetings

A. Ancient Near East VI: Religion and Science. Maynard Maidman, Chair (9:00 a.m-12:00 noon)

99.

Francesca Rochberg, University of California at Riverside

Empiricism in Babylonian Omen Texts and Problems in the Classification of Mesopotamian Divination as Science

100.

Anne Marie Kitz, Kenrick-Glennon Seminary

Cleromancy and Lot Casting: Theory and p`raxis

101.

Jorunn J. Buckley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A Chance Meeting in Suq es-Shuyuk: The Mandaean Priest Yahia Bihram and Heinrich Petermann, 1854

(Break)

102.

Gary Beckman, University of Michigan

The Goddess Pirinkir and Her Ritual from attusa (CTH 644)

103.

Tvi Abusch

(Paper moved to #34b)

104.

Alford T. Welch, Michigan State University

Women in Islam in the Qur'an

105.

Yehezkel Nuama, Tel Aviv University

Lessons from Body-Postures in the Islamic Prayer

106.

Therisa LaClaire Rogers, University of Michigan

Anti-Ascetic Masculinity in al-Muwatta'

107.

Leah Kinberg, Tel Aviv University

Dream as a means to evaluate hadith transmitters, or The interest of biographical dictionaries in dreams

(Break)

108.

Sidney H. Griffith, The Catholic University of America

The Vita of Theodore of Edessa: Apologetics, polemics and Christian hagiography in the world of Islam

109.

Todd Lawson, McGill University

From Kasb to Acquisition: The Dying of a metaphor

110.

Richard M. Frank, The Catholic University of America

The Ash`arite Conception of Speaking ( al-kalam)

111.

Leila S. Al-imad, East Tennessee State University

The Training of Medieval Physicians in Dar al-Islam