Volume 120 / Number 2 / April-June 2000

ISSN 0003-0279

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Articles

CHRISTA MÜLLER-KESSLER and THEODORE KWASMAN, A Unique Talmudic Aramaic Incantation Bowl      159
LIKAYAT A. TAKIM, From Bid`a to Sunna: The Wilaya of `Ali in the Shi`i Adhan      166
KAMIL V ZVELEBIL, “May the Gods Protect Us”: A Contribution to Nilgiri Religious Infrastructure     178
STEVEN D. CARTER, Bashô and the Mastery of Poetic Space in Oko no hosomichi     190

Review Articles

A. J. FERRARA, In Praise of Istar     99
LUDO ROCHER, Ernst Leumann Revisited     206
WILLIAM G. BOLTZ, Logic, Language, and Grammar in Early China     218

Brief Communications

M. B. EMENEAU, Some Origins of Kota -j(-)     231
GEORGE CARDONA, Addendum to JAOS 119.1     234

Reviews of Books     235

Books Received     311