Volume 118 / Number 3 /
July-September 1998
ISSN 0003-0279
JOURNAL
OF THE
AMERICAN
ORIENTAL
SOCIETY
In Memoriam: JEANETTE WAKIN 323
Articles
CÉCILE MICHEL, Les Mites d'Assyrie: Moths in the Assyrian Texts of the Second Millennium B.C. 325
IAN MABBETT, The Problem of the Historical Nagarjuna Revisited 332
DING XIANG WARNER, Mr. Five Dippers of Drunkenville: The Representation of Enlightenment in Wang Ji's
Drinking Poems 347
NADIA MARIA EL CHEIKH, Surat al-Rum: A Study of the Exegetical Literature 356
GERRIT BOS, Ibn al-Jazzar on Medicine for the Poor and Destitute 365
Review Articles
McKIM MARRIOTT, India Without Hindu Concepts? 377
PHILIP F. KENNEDY, The Discovery at Mada'in Salih: Myth or Artifact? 381
WOLFGANG HEIMPEL, The Industrial Park of Girsu in the Year 2042 B. C.: Interpretation of an Archive
Assembled by P. Mander 387
Brief Communication
DAVID W. McALPIN, Coarticulations and Coronals in Malayalam 401
Reviews of Books 407
Reviews of Books
HINDS: Studies in Early Islamic History, ed. Bacharach (Michael L Bates) 407
NEWMAN: Muhammad, the Quran, and Islam (A. Rippin) 408
ABDEL-MALEK: Muhammad in the Modern Egyptian Popular Ballad (Pierre Cachia) 409
CAMPBELL, ed.: Contemporary Arab Writers: Biographies
and Autobiographies (Pierre Cachia) 410
BURNETT and JACQUART, eds: Constantine the African and
`Ali ibn al-`Abbas al-Magusi: The Pantegni and Related
Texts (Glen M. Cooper) 411
CONRAD, ed.: The World of Ibn Tufayl: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives (Peter Heath) 413
ELIAS: The Throne Carrier of God: The Life and Thought of
`Ala' ad-Dawla as-Simnani (Kathryn Babayan) 415
RYDING and ZAIBACK: Formal Spoken Arabic: FAST Course
(Elizabeth M. Bergman) 417
INGHAM: Arabian Diversions: Studies in the Dialects of Arabia (Alan S. Kaye) 418
ELGIBALI, ed.: Understanding Arabic: Essays in Contempopary Linguistics in Honor of El-Said Badawi (Alan S. Kaye) 419
GRABAR, ed.: Muqarnas: An Annual on Islamic Art and
Architecture, vol. 10: Essays in Honor of Oleg Grabar
Contributed by his Students (Estelle Whelan) 421
JAMISON: Sacrificed Wife/Sacrificer's Wife: Women, Ritual,
and Hospitality in Ancient India (Frederick M. Smith) 422
R. GOLDMAN and S. GOLDMAN, trs.: The Ramayana of Valmiki: An Epic of Ancient India, vol. 5: Sundarakanda
(Richard W. Lariviere) 426
GOODALL, ed.: Hindu Scriptures, Based on an Anthology by
R.C. Zaehner (Bruce M. Sullivan) 427
STAAL: Mantras between Fire and Water: Reflections on a
Balinese Rite (Ludo Rocher) 428
McLEOD: Historical Dictionary of Sikhism (David N.
Lorenzen) 429
TRAUTMANN: Aryans and British India (David Kopf) 430
I. TAYLOR and M. TAYLOR: Writing and Literacy in China,
Korea, and Japan (Roy Andrew Miller) 431
DARDESS: A Ming Society: T'ai-ho County, Kiangsi, in the
Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries (Romeyn Taylor) 433
HALLO: Origins: The Ancient Near Eastern Background of
Some Modern Institutions (K. van der Toorn) 435
NIDITCH: Oral World and Written Word: Ancient Israelite
Literature (John Van Seters) 436
CLINES, ed.: The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew, vol. 2
(Joseph A. Fitzmeyer, S.J.) 437
VAN KEULEN: Manasseh through the Eyes of the Deuteronomists (Steven L. McKenzie) 439
KELM and MAZAR: Timnah: A Biblical City in the Sorek
Valley (Joe D. Seger) 440
MANNING: The Absolute Chronology of the Aegean Early
Bronze Age: Archaeology, Radiocarbon and History
(William G. Dever) 440
BARTL et al., eds.: Zwischen Euphrat und Indus: Aktuelle
Forschungsproblem in der vorderasiatischen Archäologie
(D. T. Potts) 442
COLE: Early Neo-Babylonian Governor's Archive from
Nippur; COLE: Nippur in Late Assyrian Times (M. Dandamayev) 443
MAYER: Politik und Kriegskunst der Assyrer (Mario
Liverani) 445
PARPOLA: Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars
(R. M. Jas) 447
EGBERTS: In Quest of Meaning: A Study of the Ancient
Egyptian Rites of Consecrating the Meret-Chests and
Driving the Calves (Erhart Graefe) 447
ABOUZAYD: A Study of the Life of Singleness in the Syrian
Orient, from Ignatius of Antioch to Chalcedon, 451 A.D.
(Amir Harrak) 449
GELLER and MAEHLER, eds.: Legal Documents of the Hellenistic World (Roger S. Bagnall) 450
HERRMANN: The Furniture of Western Asia, Ancient and
Traditional (Oscar White Muscarella)
439