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• Islam and Its Past: Jahiliyya, Late Antiquity, and the Qur'an.
• The Medinet Hahu Records of the Foreign Wars of Ramesses III.
• The Morpho-Syntactic and Lexical Encoding of Tense and Aspect in Semitic: Proceedings of the Erlangen Workshop on April 16, 2014.
• Half-human and Monstrous Races in Zoroastrian Tradition.
• Alexander the Great and the East: History, Art, Tradition.
• Problems of Han Administration: Ancestral Rites, Weights and Measures, and the Means of Protest.
• Dong [phrase omitted] 'East' and the Chinese 'Indian Circle'.
• The Susa Funerary Texts: A New Edition and Re-Evaluation and the Question of Psychostasia in Ancient Mesopotamia.
• From Singing Ghosts to Docile Concubines: Elite Domestication of the Local in the Wu Songs.
• The Absent Vedas.

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• Poetry and diplomacy in early Heian Japan: the embassy of Wang Hyoryom from Parhae to the Konin Court.
• 'Godly Worm' and the 'Literati Prism' of Chinese Sources.
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• The Scourge of God: The Umman-manda and Its Significance in the First Millennium.
• Being a Sabian at Court in tenth-century Baghdad.
• Old, older, and oldest Dharmasastra: the manuscript tradition of the Manu Sastra, the original text of the Manu Sastra, and the first dharmasutras.
• Some parascriptural dimensions of the "Tale of Harut wa-Marut".
• The Record of King Wu of Zhou's Royal Deeds in the Yi Zhou shu in Light of Near Eastern Royal Inscriptions.
• "Al-Ghazali of al-Andalus": Ibn Barrajan, Mahdism, and the Emergence of Learned Sufism on the Iberian Peninsula.
• Bhoh as a linguistic marker of Brahmanical identity.