The Journal of the American Oriental Society

The excellences of the Qur'an: textual sacrality and the organization of early Islamic society.

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Competitive hagiography in biographies of al-Awza'i and Sufyan al-Thawri.

The body as metaphor for the civil and martial components of empire in Yi Zhou shu, chapter 32; with an excursion on the composition and structure of the Yi Zhou shu.

Critical Essay

Defining experience: the 'poems of seductive allure' (yanshi) of the mid-Tang poet Yuan Zhen (779-831).

Critical Essay

Hebrew [LANGUAGE NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] = Akkadian qata napasu: a term of non-allegiance.

Brief Communications

On the meaning of the name Xi wangmu, Spirit-Mother of the West.

Brief Communications

The Arabic Theory of Prosification and Versification: On Hall and Nazm in Arabic Theoretical Discourse.

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Word Order in Arabic.

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Early Maliki Law: Ibn [[blank].sup.[subset]]Abd al-Hakam and his Major Compendium of Jurisprudence.

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European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State: The Merchants of Genoa and Turkey.

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Empedocles Arabus: Une lecture neoplatonicenne tardive.

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The Hausa Language: An Encyclopedic Reference Grammar.

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The Syntax of Spoken Arabic: A Comparative Study of Moroccan, Egyptian, Syrian and Kuwaiti Dialects.

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Tue Cult of Asherah in Ancient Israel and Judah: Evidence for a Hebrew Goddess.

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The Lie Became Great: The Forgery of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures.

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Untersuchungen zur Uberlieferungsgeschichte der Horusstelen: Ein Beitrag zur Religionsgeschichte Agyptens im 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr. 2 vols.

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Das Egibi-Archiv, I: Die Felder und Garten, 2 vols.

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La ley mds antigua: Textos legates sumerios.

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Die Funktionen der lokalen Kasus im Tocharischen.

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Testi cuneiformi neo-Sumerici da Umma, Nn, 0413-0723, parte I: I testi. .

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The Year-Names of the First Dynasty of Babylon, vol. 1, Chronological Matters: The Year-Name System and the Date-Lists; vol. 2: The Year-Names Reconstructed and Critically Annotated in Light of their Exemplars.

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Targum Neofiti 1: An Exegetical Commentary to Genesis, Including Full Rabbinic Parallels.

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The Fruit of the Vine: Viticulture in Ancient Israel.

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The Practical Impact of Science on Near Eastern and Aegean Archaeology.

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Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek Documentary Texts from Nahal Hever and Other Sites, With an Appendix Containing Alleged Qumran Texts, The Seiyal Collection II.

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Life and Death in Ancient Egypt: Scenes from Private Tombs in New Kingdom Thebes.

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King Josiah of Judah: The Lost Messiah of Israel.

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Minshat Abu Omar II: Ein vor- und fruhgeschichtlicher Friedhof im Nildelta: Graber 11-204.

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A Letter That Has Not Been Read: Dreams in the Hebrew Bible.

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Ritual in Narrative: The Dynamics of Feasting, Mourning, and Retaliation Rites in the Ugaritic Tale of Aqhat.

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