Table of Contents
Journal of the American Oriental Society
Volume 116 (1996)
JAOS 116.1
Articles
- MICHAEL NYLAN, Confucian Piety and Individualism in Han China 1
- THEODORE J. LEWIS, CT 13.33-34 and Ezekiel 32: Lion-Dragon Myths 28
- DICK DAVIS, The Problem of Ferdowsi's Sources 48
- JACQUELINE SUTHREN HIRST, Strategies of Interpretation: Samkara's Commentary on
Brhadaranyakopanisad 58
Review Articles
- STUART SARGENT, Original Insights Never Fully Present: Chan/Zen/Deconstruction 77
- SHAYE J. D. COHEN, Are There Tannaitic Parallels to the Gospels? 85
- JOEP LAMEER, The Organon of Aristotle in the Medieval Oriental and Occidental Traditions 90
Brief Communications
- STEPHEN A. WADLEY, Altaic Influences on Beijing Dialect: The Manchu Case 99
- EDWIN G. PULLEYBLANK, Prosody or Pharyngealization in Old Chinese? The Origin of the
Distinction between Type A and Type B Syllables 105
- JERE L. BACHARACH, Al-Amin's Designated Successor: The Limitations of Numismatic
Evidence 108
- C. F. ROBINSON, Al-Mu`afa b. `Imran and the Beginnings of the Tabaqat Literature 114
Reviews of Books 121
Brief Reviews of Books 175
JAOS 116.2
Articles
- CHRISTA MÜLLER-KESSLER, The Story of Bguzan-Lilit, Daughter of Zanay-Lilit 185
- JAMES A. BELLAMY, More Proposed Emendations to the Text of the Koran 196
- PATRICK OLIVELLE, Dharmaskandhah and Brahmasamsthah: A Study of Chandogya Upanisad
2.23.1 205
- JENNIFER W. JAY, Imagining Matriarchy: "Kingdoms of Women" in Tang China 220
Review Articles
- WILLIAM W. HALLO, Enki and the Theology of Eridu 231
- MAHMOUD OMIDSALAR, Unburdening Ferdowsi 235
- GERARD FUSSMAN, Southern Bactria and Northern India before Islam: A Review of
Archaeological Reports 243
Reviews of Books 261
Books Received 375
JAOS 116.3
Articles
- DEVIN J. STEWART, The First Shaykh al-Islam of the Safavid Capital Qazvin 387
- EERIK DICKINSON, Ahmed b. al-Salt and His Biography of Abu Hanifa 406
- RICHARD SALOMON, An Inscribed Buddhist Reliquary of the Time of King Kharaosta and
Prince Indravarman 418
- LAURIE E. PEARCE, The Number-Syllabary Texts 453
- FRANCESCA ROCHBERG, Personifications and Metaphors in Babylonian Celestial Omina
475
Review Articles
- REUVEN AMITAI-PREISS, The Rise and Fall of the 'Abbasid Caliphate 487
- JOHN P. KEENAN, On the Experience of Awakening: Two Reviews 495
- GARY RENDSBURG, Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts 508
- JOSEPH BAUMGARTEN, The "Halakha" in Miqsat Ma'ase ha-Torah 512
Brief Communications
- MATTHEW W. STOLPER, A Paper Chase after the Aramaic on TCL 13 193 517
- PETER SKILLING, An Arapacana Syllabary in the Bhadrakalpika-sutra 522
Reviews of Books 525
Brief Reviews of Books 589
JAOS 116.4
Articles
- RICHARD M. FRANK, Hearing and Saying What Was Said (Presidential Address)
- DAN MARTIN, Unearthing Bon Treasures
- ANTONINO FORTE, Kuwabara's Misleading
Thesis on Bukhara and the Family Name An w
- PAUL W. KROLL, On "Far Roaming"
- GARY N. KNOPPERS, Ancient Near Eastern Royal
Grants and the Davidic Covenant: A Parallel?
- JOHN A. NAWAS, The mihna of 218 A.H./833 A.D. Revisited: An Empirical Study
Review Article
- GEORGE SALIBA, Writing the History of Arabic Astronomy: Problems and Differing
Perspectives
Brief Communications
- ERIC P. HAMP, On the Indo-European Origins of the Retroflexes in Sanskrit
- PASHAURA SINGH, Guru Arjan's Ramakali Hymn: The Central Issue in the
Kartarpur-Banno Debate
- HSIAO-JUNG YU, The Interrogatives Employed in Honglou meng
and their Bearing on the Problem of Authorship
- CHARLES LACHMAN, Blindness and Oversight: Some Comments on a Dou