Volume 126 / Number 1 / January —March 2006
ISSN 0003-0279
AVRAHAM HAKIM, The Death of an Ideal Leader: Predictions and Premonitions
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GEORGE E. MENDENHALL, Arabic in Semitic Linguistic History
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HOWARD L. GOODMAN, Tintinnabulations of Bells: Scoring-Prosody in Third-Century
China and Its Relationship to Yüeh-fu Party Music
. . . . . . 27
DE-NIN D. LEE, Colophons and Cultural Biography:
Episodes from the Life of The Ear Picker
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JACOB L. DAHL, Revisiting Bala
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LISBETH S. FRIED, The House of the God Who Dwells in Jerusalem
. . . . . . 89
Reviews of Books . . . . . .103
Brief Reviews . . . . . . 131