Volume 126 / Number 3 / July —September 2006

Articles

PATRICK OLIVELLE, When Texts Conceal: Why Vedic Recitation is Forbidden at Certain Times and Places (Presidential Address) . . . . . . 305
JOEL P. BRERETON, The Composition of the Maitreyi Dialogue in the Brhadaranyaka Upanisad. . . . . . 323
THOMAS JANSEN, The Art of Severing Relationships (juejiao) in Early Medieval China . . . . . . 347
HILDE DE WEERDT, Changing Minds through Examinations: Examination Critics in Late Imperial China . . . . . . 367
REUVEN SNIR, “Religion is for God, the Fatherland is for Everyone”: Arab-Jewish Writers in Modern Iraq and the Clash of Narratives after Their Immigration to Israel . . . . . . 379

Review Article

MORDECHAI A. FRIEDMAN, Qusayr and Geniza Documents on the Indian Ocean Trade . . . . . . 401

Brief Communications

JOSETTE ELAYI, The Role of the Phoenician Kings at the Battle of Salamis (480 B.C.E..) . . . . . . 411
YORAM COHEN, Hittite ^GIŠ/GI kurtal(i), Akkadian naB-Bu, and the Cuneiform Sign NAB . . . . . . 419
ERAN COHEN, The Old Babylonian Paronomastic Infinitive in -am. . . . . . 425

Reviews of Books . . . . . .433

Brief Reviews . . . . . . 461