Volume 120 / Number 1 / January-March 2000

ISSN 0003-0279

JOURNAL
OF THE
AMERICAN
ORIENTAL
SOCIETY

PAUL W. KROLL, Seven Rhapsodies of Ts'ao Chih     1
GARY A. RENDSBURG, Literary Devices in the Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor     13
SHAHAB AHMED, Mapping the World of a Scholar in Sixth/Twelfth-Century Bukhara: Regional Tradition in Medieval  Islamic Scholarship as Reflected in a Bibliography     24
JAMES L. FITZGERALD, Sanskrit pita and saikya/saikya: Two Terms of Iron and Steel Technology in the Mahabhdrata      44

Review Article

JOHN MAcGINNIS, Some Comments on the Ebabbara in the Neo-Babylonian Period     63
HARRY A. HOFFNER, Jr. Thoughts on a New Volume of a Hittite Dictionary     68

Brief Communications

PAUL RAKITA GOLDIN, Personal Names in Early China: A Research Note      77
XIAOSHAM YANG, Naming and Meaning In the Landscape Essays of Yuan Jie and Liu Zongyuan     82

Reviews of Books [complete listing to appear]     97

Brief Reviews of Books     145