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Misspelling “Buddha”: The officially commissioned Tibetan Aparimitāyur-nāma mahāyāna-sūtras from Dunhuang and the study of Old Tibetan orthography
Brandon Dotson
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07 March 2016, pp. 129-151
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Drawing on the archival study of over 1,600 copies of the Tibetan Aparimitāyur-nāma mahāyāna-sūtra (Tib.: Tshe dpag du myed pa'i mdo) produced in Dunhuang from the 820s to the 840s and now kept in the British Library, this article sheds light on the orthographic norms of Middle Old Tibetan writing. Based on editors' corrections, and on a corpus of nearly 200 transcribed explicits, the article compares the orthographic norms of this group of sutras with those of other dated Old Tibetan manuscripts and inscriptions. It proposes that among the most important markers for dating Old Tibetan writing are the increased use in the tenth century of the ’i(s) form of the genitive and ergative particles as a separate syllable, and the relative absence of the tu form of the terminative particle in Middle Old Tibetan writing. Additionally, the study offers suggestions concerning the development of the various forms of Tibetan case particles.

Alhena Gadotti : “Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld” and the Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle. (Untersuchungen zur Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie.) x, 430 pp. Boston and Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2014, € 229.95. ISBN 978 1 61451 708 5.
Marie-Christine Ludwig
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13 January 2017, pp. 637-638
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Markham J. Geller: Melothesia in Babylonia: Medicine, Magic, and Astrology in the Ancient Near East. (Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures, 2.) xii, 100 pp. Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2014. €69.95. ISBN 978 1 614 51775 7.
Frances Reynolds
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07 March 2016, pp. 153-155
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Julia Linke : Das Charisma der Könige: Zur Konzeption des altorientalischen Königtums im Hinblick auf Urartu. (Philippika. Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen 84.) viii, 344 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015. €48. ISBN 978 3 447 10349 7.
Michael Herles
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22 June 2016, pp. 399-400
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Laurie E. Pearce and Cornelia Wunsch: Documents of Judean Exiles and West Semites in Babylonia in the Collection of David Sofer. (Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology 28.) xlii, 322 pp. Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 2014. £45. ISBN 978 1 9343 0957 5.
Shai Gordin
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07 March 2016, pp. 155-157
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Sebastian Fink : Benjamin Whorf, die Sumerer und der Einfluss der Sprache auf das Denken. (Philippika: Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen / Contributions to the Study of Ancient World Cultures 70.) xii, 209 pp. €48. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015. ISBN 978 3 447 10138 7.
Walther Sallaberger
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22 June 2016, pp. 400-402
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Leonid Kogan : Genealogical Classification of Semitic: The Lexical Isoglosses. xv, 734 pp. Berlin: De Gruyter 2015. €179. ISBN 978 1 61451 726 9.
Gregorio del Olmo Lete
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13 January 2017, pp. 639-640
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Greg Fisher (ed.): Arabs and Empires before Islam. xxviii, 580 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. £120. ISBN 978 0 19 965452 9.
Peter Webb
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13 January 2017, pp. 640-642
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Margaret Jaques : Mon dieu qu'ai-je fait? Les diĝir-šà-dab(5)-ba et la piété privée en Mésopotamie. Avec une contribution de Daniel Schwemer. (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 273.) xiii, 463 pp. Fribourg and Göttingen: Academic Press and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015. CHF 141. ISBN 978 3 7278 1770 0.
Uri Gabbay
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22 June 2016, pp. 402-404
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Uri Gabbay: Pacifying the Hearts of the Gods: Sumerian Emesal Prayers of the First Millennium bc. (Heidelberger Emesal-Studien 1.) xx, 356 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014. ISBN 978 3 447 06748 5.
Selim Ferruh Adalı
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07 March 2016, pp. 157-159
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Ayman Shihadeh : Doubts on Avicenna: A Study and Edition of Sharaf al-Dīn al-Masʿūdī' s Commentary on the Ishārāt. (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science.) vi, 289 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2016. €97. ISBN 978 9 004 30252 5.
Peter Adamson
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22 June 2016, pp. 404-406
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Peter Verkinderen : Waterways of Iraq and Iran in the Early Islamic Period: Changing Rivers and Landscapes of the Mesopotamian Plain. xviii, 366 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2015. ISBN 978 1 78076 471 9.
Michael Morony
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13 January 2017, pp. 642-643
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Isaac Kalimi and Seth Richardson (eds): Sennacherib at the Gates of Jerusalem: Story, History, and Historiography. (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East.) xii, 548 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2014. €181. ISBN 978 90 04 26561 5.
Amitai Baruchi-Unna
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07 March 2016, pp. 159-161
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Lauren Ristvet: Ritual, Performance, and Politics in the Ancient Near East. xiv, 315 pp. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. £65. ISBN 978 1 1070 6521 5.
Manfred Hutter
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07 March 2016, pp. 161-163
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Jean-Michel Mouton , Dominique Sourdel , Janine Sourdel-Thomine (avec un appendice de Jean Richard ): Gouvernance et liberalités de Saladin d'après les données inédites de six documents arabes. (Documents relatifs à l'histoire des Croisades.) 146 pp., 6 pl. Paris: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 2015. €30. ISBN 978 2 87754 323 1.
Boris Liebrenz
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22 June 2016, pp. 406-407
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Matthew Pierce : Twelve Infallible Men: The Imams and the Making of Shiʿism. ix, 254 pp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. £33.95. ISBN 978 0 674 73707 5.
Najam Haider
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13 January 2017, pp. 643-645
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Zeynep Kezer : Building Modern Turkey: State, Space and Ideology in the Early Republic. (Culture, Politics and the Built Environment.) xii, 330 pp. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015. $29.95. ISBN 978 0 8229 6390 5.
Sibel Bozdogan
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13 January 2017, pp. 645-647
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Nicolas Trépanier : Foodways and Daily Life in Medieval Anatolia: A New Social History. xvi, 243 pp. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014. $55. ISBN 978 0 292 75929 9.
Ethel Sara Wolper
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22 June 2016, pp. 408-409
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Niek Veldhuis: History of the Cuneiform Lexical Tradition. (Guides to the Mesopotamian Textual Record 6.) xiv, 524 pp. Münster: Ugarit Verlag, 2014. $98.29. ISBN 978 3 86835 116 3.
Alexandra Kleinerman
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07 March 2016, pp. 163-164
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Vanessa Guéno and Stefan Knost (eds): Lire et écrire l'histoire ottoman. (Beiruter Texte und Studien.) vi, 226 pp. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, with Orient-Institut Beirut, 2015. ISBN 978 3 95650 147 0.
Haim Gerber
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13 January 2017, pp. 647-648
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Misspelling “Buddha”: The officially commissioned Tibetan Aparimitāyur-nāma mahāyāna-sūtras from Dunhuang and the study of Old Tibetan orthography

Reviews: The ancient Near East

Alhena Gadotti : “Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld” and the Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle. (Untersuchungen zur Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie.) x, 430 pp. Boston and Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2014, € 229.95. ISBN 978 1 61451 708 5.

Reviews: The Ancient Near East

Markham J. Geller: Melothesia in Babylonia: Medicine, Magic, and Astrology in the Ancient Near East. (Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures, 2.) xii, 100 pp. Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2014. €69.95. ISBN 978 1 614 51775 7.

Julia Linke : Das Charisma der Könige: Zur Konzeption des altorientalischen Königtums im Hinblick auf Urartu. (Philippika. Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen 84.) viii, 344 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015. €48. ISBN 978 3 447 10349 7.

Laurie E. Pearce and Cornelia Wunsch: Documents of Judean Exiles and West Semites in Babylonia in the Collection of David Sofer. (Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology 28.) xlii, 322 pp. Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 2014. £45. ISBN 978 1 9343 0957 5.

Sebastian Fink : Benjamin Whorf, die Sumerer und der Einfluss der Sprache auf das Denken. (Philippika: Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen / Contributions to the Study of Ancient World Cultures 70.) xii, 209 pp. €48. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015. ISBN 978 3 447 10138 7.

Reviews: The ancient Near East

Leonid Kogan : Genealogical Classification of Semitic: The Lexical Isoglosses. xv, 734 pp. Berlin: De Gruyter 2015. €179. ISBN 978 1 61451 726 9.

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

Greg Fisher (ed.): Arabs and Empires before Islam. xxviii, 580 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. £120. ISBN 978 0 19 965452 9.

Reviews: The Ancient Near East

Uri Gabbay: Pacifying the Hearts of the Gods: Sumerian Emesal Prayers of the First Millennium bc. (Heidelberger Emesal-Studien 1.) xx, 356 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014. ISBN 978 3 447 06748 5.

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

Ayman Shihadeh : Doubts on Avicenna: A Study and Edition of Sharaf al-Dīn al-Masʿūdī' s Commentary on the Ishārāt. (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science.) vi, 289 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2016. €97. ISBN 978 9 004 30252 5.

Peter Verkinderen : Waterways of Iraq and Iran in the Early Islamic Period: Changing Rivers and Landscapes of the Mesopotamian Plain. xviii, 366 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2015. ISBN 978 1 78076 471 9.

Reviews: The Ancient Near East

Isaac Kalimi and Seth Richardson (eds): Sennacherib at the Gates of Jerusalem: Story, History, and Historiography. (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East.) xii, 548 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2014. €181. ISBN 978 90 04 26561 5.

Lauren Ristvet: Ritual, Performance, and Politics in the Ancient Near East. xiv, 315 pp. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. £65. ISBN 978 1 1070 6521 5.

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

Matthew Pierce : Twelve Infallible Men: The Imams and the Making of Shiʿism. ix, 254 pp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. £33.95. ISBN 978 0 674 73707 5.

Zeynep Kezer : Building Modern Turkey: State, Space and Ideology in the Early Republic. (Culture, Politics and the Built Environment.) xii, 330 pp. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015. $29.95. ISBN 978 0 8229 6390 5.

Nicolas Trépanier : Foodways and Daily Life in Medieval Anatolia: A New Social History. xvi, 243 pp. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014. $55. ISBN 978 0 292 75929 9.

Reviews: The Ancient Near East

Niek Veldhuis: History of the Cuneiform Lexical Tradition. (Guides to the Mesopotamian Textual Record 6.) xiv, 524 pp. Münster: Ugarit Verlag, 2014. $98.29. ISBN 978 3 86835 116 3.

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

Vanessa Guéno and Stefan Knost (eds): Lire et écrire l'histoire ottoman. (Beiruter Texte und Studien.) vi, 226 pp. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, with Orient-Institut Beirut, 2015. ISBN 978 3 95650 147 0.

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