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Jidong Yang, Transportation, Boarding, Lodging, and Trade along the Early Silk Road: A Preliminary Study of the Xuanquan Manuscripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jie Shi, Rolling between Burial and Shrine: A Tale of Two Chariot Processions at Chulan Tomb 2 in Eastern Han China (171 c.e.). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shawn Zelig Aster, Isaiah 19: The “Burden of Egypt” and Neo-Assyrian Imperial Policy . . . . . . . . . Michael Shenkar, Rethinking Sasanian Iconoclasm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anya King, The New materia medica of the Islamicate Tradition: The Pre-Islamic Context . . . . . . . . . Mark S. Wagner, The Problem of Non-Muslims Who Insult the Prophet Muḥammad. . . . . . . . . . . . . Gašper Beguš, A New Rule in Vedic Metrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David W. McAlpin, Brahui and the Zagrosian Hypothesis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Brief Communication Peter Kornicki, Korean Books in Japan before Hideyoshi’s Invasion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587 Reviews of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595 Brief Reviews of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657
Reviews of Books Patch, ed.: Dawn of Egyptian Art (William H. Peck) Weiß: Ägyptische Tier- und Götterbronzen aus Unterägypten: Untersuchungen zu Typus, Ikonographie und Funktion sowie der Bedeutung innerhalb der Kulturkontakte zu Griechenland (Emily Teeter) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Goehring: Politics, Monasticism, and Miracles in Sixth Century Upper Egypt (Elizabeth Platte) . . . Stökl: Prophecy in the Ancient Near East: A Philological and Sociological Comparison (Daniel Snell) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Neujahr: Predicting the Past in the Ancient Near East: Mantic Historiography in Ancient Mesopotamia, Judah, and the Mediterranean World (Tremper Longman III) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abrahami and Lion, eds.: The Nuzi Workshop at the 55th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (Maynard P. Maidman) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Woolmer: Ancient Phoenicia: An Introduction (Vadim Jigoulov) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frey, Claussen, and Kessler, eds.: Qumran und die Archäologie (Kenneth Atkinson) . . . . . . . . . . VanderKam: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible (James E. Bowley) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aruz and Valtz Fino, eds.: Afghanistan: Forging Civilizations along the Silk Road (Paul B. Harvey, Jr.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Talay: Neuaramäische Texte in den Dialekten der Khabur-Assyrer in Nordostsyrien (Charles G. Häberl) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . van Gelder: Sound and Sense in Classical Arabic Poetry (Kirill Dmitriev) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sharlet: Patronage and Poetry in the Islamic World: Social Mobility and Status in the Medieval Middle East and Central Asia (Anna Livia Beelaert and Hilary Kilpatrick) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Moin: The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam (Jamsheed K. Choksy) . Khalil, ed.: Between Heaven and Hell: Islam, Salvation and the Fate of Others (Martin Nguyen) . Authier: Grammaire juhuri, ou judéo-tat, langue iranienne des Juifs du Caucase de l’est (Habib Borjian) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D iem: Vom Status pendens zum Satzsubjekt: Studien zur Topikalisierung in neueren semitischen Sprachen (Eran Cohen) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zysow: The Economy of Certainty: An Introduction to the Typology of Islamic Legal Theory (Abdessamad Belhaj) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Tarán and Gutas, eds.: Aristotle Poetics: Editio Maior of the Greek Text with Historial Introductions and Philological Commentaries (Peter E. Pormann) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Róna-Tas and Berta†: West Old Turkic: Turkic Loanwords in Hungarian. 2 vols. Turkologica, vol. 84 (Doug Hitch) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cantera, ed.: The Transmission of the Avesta (Elizabeth Tucker) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Raffaelli: The Sīh-rōzag in Zoroastrianism: A Textual and Historico-Religious Analysis (Jenny Rose) Hock, ed.: Vedic Studies: Language, Texts, Culture, and Philosophy. Proceedings of the 15th World Sanskrit Conference, vol. 1 (Kristen de Joseph) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deloche: Ancient Fortifications of the Tamil Country as Recorded in Eighteenth-Century French Plans (Robert Simpkins) . . . . . . . . . . . . . Babb: Emerald City: The Birth and Evolution of an Indian Gemstone Industry (John E. Cort) . . . . . . Richter: Letters and Epistolary Culture in Early Medieval China (Qiulei Hu) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kelleher: The Journal of Wu Yubi: The Path to Sagehood. (George Lawrence Israel) . . . . . . . . . Honey: The Southern Garden Poetry Society: Literary Culture and Social Memory in Guangdong (Xiaoshan Yang) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Schultz: Singing a Hindu Nation: Marathi Devotional Performance and Nationalism (Jon Keune) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Broug: Islamic Geometric Design (Carol Bier) . . . . Bohas and Bachmar: Les étymons en arabe: Analyse formelle et sémantique (Lutz Edzard) . . . Mouton, Sourdel, and Sourdel-Thomine, eds.: Mariage et séparation à Damas au moyen âge: Un corpus de 62 documents juridiques inédits entre 337/948 et 698/1299 (Yossef Rapoport) . . . Elshakry: Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860–1950 (Daniel Martin Varisco) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Singer: The Calm before the Storm: Selected Writings of Itamar Singer on the End of the Late Bronze Age in Anatolia and the Levant; Cohen, Golan, and Miller, eds.: Pax Hethitica: Studies on the Hittites and Their Neighbours in Honour of Itamar Singer (Gary Beckman) . . . . . . . . .
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