Volume 123 / Number 1 / January—March 2003

JOHN L. MELOY, Imperial Strategy and Political Exigency: The Red Sea Spice Trade and the Mamluk Sultanate in the Fifteenth Century    1
JAMSHEED K. CHOKSY, To Cut Off, Purify, and Make Whole: Historiographical and Ecclesiastical Conceptions of Ritual Space    21
RONALD KIM, On the Historical Phonology of Ossetic: The Origin of the Oblique Case Suffix    43
RICHARD SALOMON, The Senior Manuscripts: Another Collection of Gandharan Buddhist Scrolls    73
DAVID PRAGER BRANNER, Tonal Prosody in Chinese Parallel Prose    93
CARRIE E. REED, Motivation and Meaning of a "Hodge-Podge": Duan Chengshi's Youyang zazu    121

Review Articles

VICTOR AVIGDOR HUROWITZ, The Mesopotamian God-Image, From Womb to Tomb    147
RON E. TAPPY, Recent Interpretations of Ancient Israelite Religion    159

Brief Communications

Reviews of Books   175

Brief Reviews   243