American Oriental Society

PROGRAM OF THE 211^th MEETING

Thursday, March 29th

3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Meeting, Editorial Board, JAOS. Lombard Room

Friday, March 30th

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

10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon. Morning Registration. Colony West

1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Afternoon Registration. Colony West

2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Book Exhibit. Colony West

1:30 p.m.-6:45 p.m. Friday Afternoon-Early Evening Sectional Meetings

A. Ancient Near East I: AOS/NACAL: Linguistics.
Eva von Dassow, University of Minnesota, and Theo van den Hout, Oriental Institute, Co-Chairs (1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.) Colony East

1.

David Testen, University of Chicago

Arabic Correlates to the Akkadian Stem-Type purussā'

2.

Michael Rand, New York University

The Role of Ablaut-Class Change and Rhyme in the Transitivization of Verbs in Hebrew Liturgical Poetry

3.

Alan Kaye, California State University, Fullerton

Semantic Transparency and Arabic Plurals

4.

Jay Friedman, University of California, Los Angeles

Two Hittite Etymological Notes: haršar “head”, ārrir(r)a- “scrape (clean)”

5.

Jaan Puhvel, University of California, Los Angeles

Nōmen Proprium in Hittite

6.

Tawney L. Holm, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Mimicking Reality: Iconicity and Verbal Gemination in Semitic

7.

Steven E. Fassberg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Why Doesn't melex Appear as ma:lex in Pause in Tiberian Hebrew?

8.

Maria Yakubovich, University of California at Berkeley

Amorite Sibilants and the Affricate Theory

9.

Paul W. Kroll, University of Colorado

Notes on Three Buddhist Poems by Li Po

10.

Charles Kwong, Lingnan University

Natural Symbolism in ``Encountering Distress" (Li sao ) and “Nine Pieces” (Jiu zhang )

11.

Alice W. Cheang, Chinese University of Hong Kong

The South Revisited-Su Shi's Last Poems

12.

Chris Wen-Chao Li, San Francisco State University

Where Have All the Neutral Tones Gone? Charting Neutral Tone Decline in Taipei Mandarin

13.

Timothy J. Vance, University of Arizona

Japanese Sequential Voicing in Inflected Words

14.

Michael G. Carter, Oslo University

The Andalusian Grammarians: Are They Different?

15.

Pieter Smoor, University of Amsterdam [Paper withdrawn]

`Umāra (515-569/1121-1174), His Poems and the End of the Fatimid Shī`īs in Egypt

16.

Dagmar A. Riedel, Indiana University

Eminent Seljuqs: Concepts of Historical Biography and Personal Behavior in the Rāhat al-Sudūr by Ravandī (fl. 1180-1200)

17.

Th. Emil Homerin, University of Rochester

“Praise of God Restores the Soul”: Arabic Religious Poetry, 1200-1800

18.

Adrian Gully, University of Exeter

The Sword and the Pen in the Pre-modern Arabic Heritage: A Literary Representation of an Important Historical Relationship

19.

Christian K. Wedemeyer, University of Copenhagen

The Meaning and Function of the Term prakrti in Buddhist Unexcelled Yoga

20.

T. S. Rukmani, Concordia University, Montreal

Śankara and Buddhism: A Critique Based on the Brahmasūtrabhāsya and the Yogasūtrabhāsyavivarana

21.

Daniel Veidlinger, University of Chicago

The Unity of Opposites: Tantric Influence in the Sinhalese Paritta Ceremony

22.

Daniel Boucher, Cornell University

The Textual History of the Rāstrapālapariprcchā : Notes on Its Third-Century Chinese Translation

23.

Signe Cohen, University of Pennsylvania

The Date of the Mūklamādhyamakakārikās Reconsidered

24.

John William Nemec, University of Pennsylvania

Utpaladeva's Reinterpretation of Will (icchā ) in Somānda's Śivadrsti

25.

Jeson Woo, The Buddhist Research Institute, Seoul

Incompatibility and the Proof of the Buddhist Theory of Momentariness

26.

William W. Hallo, Yale University

MUL.APIN and the Names of Constellations

27.

Seth L. Sanders, Independent Scholar, Chicago, Illinois

SAA III 32: The First Tour of Hell

28.

Grant Frame, University of Toronto

The Annals of Sargon II in Room V of the Palace at Khorsabad

     (Break )

29.

Richard E. Averbeck, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

A Re-examination of the Gudea Cylinders and Fragments in the Louvre

30.

Jamie R. Novotny, Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project

How Etana and the Eagle Were Permitted to Communicate with One Another

31.

A. Kirk Grayson, University of Toronto

Sennacherib's “Bavian” Inscriptions and the Work of Leonard W. King

7:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m. Friday Evening Sectional Meeting

Islamic Near East II: Special Panel: Adab . Shawkat M. Toorawa, Cornell University, Chair (7:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m.) St. George

32.

Stephanie Thomas, Harvard University [Paper withdrawn]

The Qur'ān in Classical Arabic Repartee

33.

Beatrice Gruendler, Yale University

Spoken and Written Verse in Early Literary Akhbār

34.

Shawkat M. Toorawa, Cornell University

Who Were the Shayātīn al`Askar and How Do We Know?

35.

Devin Stewart, Emory University

Professional Literary Mendicancy and the Writings of Badī` al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī

36.

Pierre A. MacKay, University of Washington

Proposal for a Critical Edition of the Maqāmāt of Badī` al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī

37.

Everett K. Rowson, University of Pennsylvania

An Alexandrian Age in Fourteenth-Century Damascus: Twin Commentaries on Two Celebrated Arabic Epistles

Saturday, March 31st

8:30 a.m.-12:00 noon. Morning Registration. Colony West

8:30 a.m.-12:00 noon & 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Book Exhibit. Colony West

8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Breakfast for Graduate Students and Recent Ph.D.'s (Hosted by the AOS) Lombard Room

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

A. Ancient Near East III: Economic and Social History Benjamin Foster, Yale University, Chair. (9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.) Colony East

38.

Steven J. Garfinkle, Columbia University

Households and Identity in the Ur III Period

39.

Daniel E. Fleming, New York University

ālum and mātum at Mari: Second Millennium Expressions of Early Political Development

40.

David Schloen, University of Chicago

Village Grants in Bronze-Age Syria

41.

Seth Richardson, Columbia University

Building Larsa: An Alternative View of Mass Labor in the Ancient Near East

42.

Daniel A. Nevez, University of Chicago

The Slave Trade in Babylonia, 1600-1150 B.C.

43.

Daniel C. Snell, University of Oklahoma

Slavery in Old Babylonian Letters

44.

E. Bruce Brooks, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Dual Authorship in SJ 63

45.

Charles Holcombe, University of Northern Iowa

Drawn to a Distant Sun: Foreign-Born Leaders of Tang China (618-906)

46.

Cornelius J. Kiley, Villanova University

Monarchy and Co-rulership in Ancient Japan

C. Islamic Near East III: Studies in Sources, I. Ralph S. Hattox, Hampden-Sydney College, Chair (9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.) St. George

47.

Kevin van Bladel, Yale University

Ancient Greek Chronographic Sources in Arabic Histories

48.

Steven Judd, Southern Connecticut State University

Evidence of Editing in al-Tabari's Citations of al-Madā'inī for the Late Umayyad Period

49.

John C. Lamoreaux, Southern Methodist University

The Life of Timothy of Kakhushta: A New Source for the History of Early `Abbāsid Syria

50.

Jacob Lassner, Northwestern University

Revisiting Medieval Baghdad: Reflections on the Mashhad Manuscript of Ibn al-Faqīh (By Title)

51.

Nicolas Trépanier, McGill University

The Manāqib al-`Ārifīn as a Source for Political History

52.

Niall Christie, University of Toronto

Reconstructing Life in Mediæval Alexandria from an 8^th/14^th-Century Waqf Document

53.

James L. Fitzgerald, University of Tennessee

God Dharma in the Mahābhārata : Following a Major Thread of the Received Text

54.

Patrick Olivelle, University of Texas at Austin [Paper withdrawn]

Critical Edition of the Mānava-Dharmaśāstra : A Progress Report

55.

Robert A. Goodding, University of Texas at Austin

The Jīvanmuktiviveka of Vidyāranya in Its Historical Context

56.

Kenneth G. Zysk, University of Copenhagen

Ratiśāstra in Medieval India

57.

Donald R. Davis, Jr., Bucknell University

Adoption among Matrilineal Groups in Kerala according to the Laghudharmaprakāśikā

58.

Craig Davis, Indiana University

The “Heresy” of Imagery and Translation

59.

Ludo Rocher, University of Pennsylvania

Did the Laws of the Shaster Give Indians Justice?

1:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Saturday Afternoon-Early Evening Sectional Meetings

A. Ancient Near East IV: Special Session: Writing Syriac: From Stone to Bytes. Amir Harrak, University of Toronto, Chair (1:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.) Colony East

60.

Marcia Cassis, University of Toronto

The bema in the West and East Syriac Churches

61.

Amir Harrak, University of Toronto

Patriarchal Tombstones at the Monastery of Rabban Hormizd: Types and Origins

62.

Wolfhart Heinrichs, Harvard University

Turkish Karshuni

63.

George Kiraz, Syriac Computing Institute

From Parchment to Open Type: The Development of Syriac Digital Types

64.

Wassilios Klein, Bonn University

Writing Syriac and Speaking Turkic in Light of Central Asian Tombstone Inscriptions

65.

Eden Naby, Harvard University

The Cultural Context for Writing Syriac During the 19^th and 20^th Centuries

66.

Karljürgen Feuerherm, University of Toronto

The Initiative for Cuneiform Encoding: Introduction and Progress Report

67.

Lloyd Anderson, Ecological Linguistics

Regular Historical Change of Cuneiform Graphemes

C. Ancient Near East VI: Issues in Sumerian and Akkadian. Jerrold Cooper, The Johns Hopkins University, Chair (2:15 p.m.-3:15 p.m.) St. Patrick

68.

Daniel Schwemer, Universität Würzburg

Akkadian hamru(m) : Lexical and Cultural-Historical Considerations

69.

Fumi Karahashi, University of Michigan

Sumerian Compound Verbs: An Observation

70.

Mary R. Bachvarova, University of Chicago

Understanding the Origin of Emesal

71.

Niek Veldhuis, University of Groningen

Gilgameš’ Death

72.

Kathryn Slanski, Tel Aviv University

Towards a Model of the Mesopotamian Hero

73.

Janice Polonsky, University of Pennsylvania

Criteria for Fate's Decree: Communication, Counsel, and Judgment

74.

Ann D. Kilmer, University of California, Berkeley

Of Babies, Boats, and Arks...

75.

Gonzalo Rubio, Ohio State University

Patterns in Sumerian Literature: From Lists to Lyrics

76.

A. J. Ferrara, The University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania

Once Upon a Time... They Lived Happily Ever After: Between the Boundaries of Narrative Discourse

77.

Suzanne Estelle-Holmer, Wellesley College

Making Sense of Nonsense in Akkadian Incantations

78.

Douglas Frayne, University of Toronto

Myth and Astronomy in Ancient Mesopotamia

E. East Asia III: Religion. Paul W. Kroll, University of Colorado, Chair (2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.) St. David

79.

Jan Nattier, Indiana University

Water, Water Everywhere (I): An Anomaly in the Translations of Zhi Qian

80.

Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Indiana University

Water, Water Everywhere (II): Veneration of Water as a Religious Current in Southeastern China

81.

Inkyung (Hyung-Rog) Kim, Independent Scholar, Seoul, S. Korea

The Position of Shen-Hui in the Platform Sutra

82.

Hamad M. Bin Seray, United Arab Emirates University

Religions of Pre-Islamic Oman

83.

Hasan M. al-Naboodah, United Arab Emirates University

The Islamization of Oman

84.

Tayeb El-Hibri, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

The Image of the Caliph al-Wāthiq: A Riddle of Historical and Religious Importance

85.

Petra M. Sijpesteijn, Princeton University

A Leaf from the Book of a 3^rd-Century AH Tax Farmer: Papyrus 1978.348 from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

86.

Paul E. Walker, University of Chicago

Wazirate of the Sword: Badr al-Jamālī in Egypt

87.

Ralph S. Hattox, Hampden-Sydney College

What Do You Do with a Refugee Prince? The Flight of Cem Sultan and Qā'itbāy’s Dilemma

88.

Barbara Kellner-Heinkele, Freie Universität Berlin

Remembering Ottoman Women of the 18^th and 19^th Centuries

G. South and Southeast Asia III. Ludo Rocher, University of Pennsylvania, Chair (2:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.) Colony Center

Papers in Memory of Daniel H. H. Ingalls

89.

Ashok Aklujkar, University of British Columbia

Using Lewis Carroll to Fill a Gap in Palace Walls: Jabberwocky in Sanskrit

90.

Christopher Z. Minkowski, Cornell University

Nīlakantha and Magic Squares

91.

David Pingree, Brown University

Pānini and Proof in Geometry

92.

Gary A. Tubb, Columbia University

Kālidāsa's Heaven and the Early Mahākāvya

Veda

93.

Hanns-Peter Schmidt, University of California, Los Angeles

The Enigmatic Hymn Rgveda 10.73

94.

George Thompson, Montserrat College of Art

Soma and Ecstasy in the Rgveda

Hosted by the University of Toronto. Wetmore Hall, New College,University of Toronto Campus

8:30 a.m.-12:00 noon. Morning Registration. Colony West

8:30 a.m.-12:00 noon & 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Book Exhibit. Colony West

9:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Plenary Session: Animals. Edwin Gerow, Reed College, Chair. Colony East

95.

Holly Pittman, University of Pennsylvania (Ancient Near East)

Animals though Mesopotamian Eyes: A Big Picture

96.

Speaker To be Announced (East Asia)

Title TBA

97.

Michael R. Drompp, Rhodes College (Inner Asia)

Türks and Wolves Reconsidered

98.

Michael Bonner, University of Michigan (Islamic Near East)

The Camel in the Early Islamic Economy

99.

Stephanie W. Jamison, Harvard University (South & Southeast Asia)

Animal Behavior and Natural History in Ancient India

1:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Sunday Afternoon Sectional Meetings

A. Ancient Near East VIII: Special Session: Papers in Honor of Robert McC. Adams. (Organized by Aslihan Yener and Norman Yoffee) Aslihan Yener, University of Chicago, Chair (1:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.) Colony East

100.

Irene J. Winter, Harvard University

Abundance in the Countryside: The Visual Dimension

101.

Glenn M. Schwartz, The Johns Hopkins University

Funerary Monuments and the Evolution of Syrian Urban Society

102.

Henry Wright, University of Michigan

Regional Archæology at the Turn of the Millennium

103.

Guillermo Algaze, University of California, San Diego

Titriş Höyük: The Rise and Collapse of an Early Bronze Age City in Southeastern Anatolia

104.

Hans Nissen, Freie Universität Berlin

Archæological Surface Surveys and Mesopotamian History

105.

Piotr Steinkeller, Harvard University

City and Countryside in Third Millennium Southern Babylonia

106.

Elizabeth Stone, State University of New York, Stony Brook

Ur III and Isin-Larsa Differences: An Archæological Perspective

107.

Robert McC. Adams, University of California, San Diego

Steps toward Regional Understanding of the Mesopotamian Plain

B. Inner Asia. History and Linguistics. Michael R. Drompp, Rhodes College, Chair (2:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.) St. Patrick

108.

Gregory D.S. Anderson, University of Manchester

Auxiliary Verb Constructions in Turkic

109.

Ilya S. Yakubovich, University of California, Berkeley

Nugae Sogdicae

110.

Denis Sinor, Indiana University

The Inauguration of the Inner Asian Ruler

111.

Hussein Keshani, University of Victoria

Inscribing Theology: Quranic Epigraphy on Delhi Sultanate Architecture

112.

Alan M. Guenther, McGill University

A Portrait of Hanafī Fiqh in Mughal India: An Examination of the Fatāwá-yi `Alamgīrī

113.

Jawid A. Mojaddedi, University of Exeter [Paper withdrawn]

`Attār's Tadhkirat al-Awliyā' and the Sufi Tabaqāt Genre

114.

Robert G. Morrison, University of Illinois

Reasons for a Scientific Portrayal of Nature in a Mediæval Qur'ān Commentary

115.

Sidney H. Griffith, The Catholic University of America

The Kitāb Tahdhīb al-Akhlāq of Yahyā ibn `Adī: A Consideration of Its Social Dimensions

116.

Paul L. Heck, Georgetown University

Memory and Writing in al-Khatīb al-Baghdādī’s (d. 463/1071) Binding of Knowledge

117.

David C. Reisman, Yale University

Slandering Ibn Sīnā: The Anecdotal Material of Ibn Funduq al-Bayhaqī's Tatimmat Siwān al-Hikma.

D. South and Southeast Asia IV. Stanley Insler, Yale University, Chair (1:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.) Colony Center

Literature and Language

118.

Stella Sandahl, University of Toronto

The Rtusamhāra : A Different Approach

119.

Mandakranta Bose, University of British Columbia

Kohala: The Lost Dramaturge of Ancient India

120.

Walker Trimble, University of Pennsylvania

Onomatopoeia and the Indian Linguistic Tradition

121.

Hartmut Scharfe, University of California, Los Angeles

“Hinged” Compounds in Sanskrit

122.

Vidyut Aklujkar, University of British Columbia

The Authorship of “Apanapau āpu hī visaryau”

123.

Kamaleswar Bhattacharya, CNRS, Paris

The Present State of Researches on the Sanskrit Epigraphy of Cambodia

124.

Rosane Rocher, University of Pennsylvania

A Glimpse into Sir William Jones' Workshop: Evidence from His Manuscript of the Vivādārnavasetu

125.

Rahul Peter Das, Martin-Luther-Universität

ojas- in Classical Indian Medical Texts

6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Social Hour (Cash Bar) Elizabeth

8:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. Annual Subscription Dinner. Colony East

Jonas Greenfield Prize Presentation to J. C. Ford, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Presidential Address (Near the Conclusion of the Dinner, at approximately 9:15 p.m.)

126.

Miguel Civil, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago

The Silences of the Scribes

Monday, April 2nd

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

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

A. Ancient Near East IX: Law, Religion, and Society. Gary Beckman, University of Michigan, Chair (9:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.) Colony Center

127.

Lourik Karkajian, Independent Scholar, Toronto

The Concept of Time in the Ugaritic Baal Cycle

128.

Jan Gallagher, Xavier University and Hebrew Union College

The Diviner: Emar's Communicator Extraordinaire

129.

Esther J. Hamori, New York University

A Reevaluation of the Social Location of Prophecy at Mari

130.

Jennie Myers, Harvard University

Some Changes in the Pantheon of Neo-Babylonian Sippar as Reflected in the Offering Lists

131.

Martha T. Roth, University of Chicago

Hammurabi's Wronged Man

132.

John Van Seters, Wilfrid Laurier University

The Covenant Code and the Mesopotamian Legal Tradition Compared: A Reappraisal

133.

Baruch A. Levine, New York University (Emeritus)

Delimiting Real Estate by Its Abutters: The Persistence of an Ancient Near Eastern Convention

134.

Richard L. Zettler, University of Pennsylvania

Monumental Architecture at Early Bronze Age Tell es-Sweyhat

135.

Karen L. Wilson, University of Chicago

The Temple Mound (Mound V) at Bismaya

136.

Siamak Adhami, Saddleback College

Suggestions on Decipherment of Three Series of Sasanian Sphragistic Monograms

137.

Madeleine A. Fitzgerald, Yale University

The Ill-fated Imperial Aspirations of Sūmû-El

138.

Eva von Dassow, University of Minnesota

Why Sennacherib Retreated from Jerusalem

139.

Malcolm J.A. Horsnell, McMaster University

Why Year Names? An Exploration into the Reasons for Their Use

140.

Leo Depuydt, Brown University

The Date of Death of Jesus of Nazareth (Friday, 18 March 29 C.E., ca . 3:00 P.M.)

141.

Feras Hamza, Oxford University/Institute for Advanced Study

Intercession in Early Islam: Between the “Tribal” and the “Religious”, a Question of Origins

142.

Christopher Melchert, Oxford University

The Holy Man in Early Islam

143.

Daniella Talmon-Heller, Hebrew University/Princeton University

Preachers and Holy Men as Mediators in 12^th and 13^th-Century Syria

144.

Shaun E. Marmon, Princeton University

Intercession: Ritual, Honor and Mercy in Mamluk Society

145.

Awad Eddie Halabi, University of Toronto

The Politicization of the Prophet Moses Festival in Early British Mandate Palestine

146.

Jon McGinnis, University of Missouri, St. Louis

The Avicennian Critique of Aristotelian Induction

147.

Ahmed H. al-Rahim, Yale University

Twelver Šī`ite Philosophy, Theology and Logic in the Mongol Period: The School of al-Hilla

148.

Tony Street, University of Cambridge

Post-Avicennian Logic in the Eastern Realms of Islam

149.

Frank Griffel, Yale University

Two Very Different Approaches in al-Shāfi`ī and al-Ghazālī on the Treatment of Apostates

150.

Felicitas Opwis, Yale University [Paper withdrawn]

The Development of Islamic Legal Theory through the Re-interpretation of Legal Decisions: Ruling on the Punishment for Drinking Wine