About the Journal
JAOS (ISSN 0003-0279) is published quarterly by the AOS. The first volume (1843-49) set the tone for all time in the broad scope of subject matter and the solidity of its scholarship. It included studies of Arab music, of Persian cuneiform, and of Buddhism in India, and brought to a wide audience the then novel theories of Pierre E. Du Ponceau, assailing the doctrine of the “ideograp
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Vol. 144 No. 1 (2024): JAOS
Published: 2024-03-04
Front Matter
Front Matter
Abstract 172 | PDF Downloads 86Articles
How to Make a Zaydi Iman
Abstract 126 | PDF Downloads 33Page 1–22
Ancient and Medieval North Pole Stars
Abstract 133 | PDF Downloads 28Page 23–40
Position Versus Class
Abstract 100 | PDF Downloads 26Page 41–61
A Most Orthodox Empire?
Abstract 140 | PDF Downloads 29Page 63–82
How Changes in Textual Culture Shaped Tang Dynasty Discussions of Ethnocultural Identity and Difference
Abstract 131 | PDF Downloads 32Page 83–105
Possibilities at the Formative Stage of the Vernacular Chinese Novel
Abstract 108 | PDF Downloads 26Page 107–126
Replying to Pharaoh’s Order
Abstract 162 | PDF Downloads 29Page 127–161
Brief Communications
Another Akkadianism in Ezekiel (and Daniel)
Abstract 129 | PDF Downloads 24Page 163–165
Reviews
Review of The Body in Arabic Love Poetry: The ʿUdhri Tradition
Abstract 84 | PDF Downloads 26Page 167–169
Review of Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry
Abstract 94 | PDF Downloads 27Page 169–172
Review of Animal Sacrifice and the Origins of Islam
Abstract 98 | PDF Downloads 24Page 173–176
Review of The Jews in Medieval Egypt
Abstract 81 | PDF Downloads 22Page 176–179
Review of Jñānapraśaṃsā: In Praise of Knowledge. Essays in Honour of E. G. Kahrs
Abstract 103 | PDF Downloads 30Page 179–183
Review of A Manichaean Prayer and Confession Book
Abstract 92 | PDF Downloads 23Page 183–185
Review of The Threshold: The Rhetoric of Historiography in Early Medieval China
Abstract 94 | PDF Downloads 30Page 185–190
Review of Temples in the Cliffside: Buddhist Art in Sichuan
Abstract 103 | PDF Downloads 24Page 190–192
Review of Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860–1960
Abstract 83 | PDF Downloads 23Page 193–196
Review of The Making of a New Rural Order in South China, vol. 2: Merchants, Markets, and Lineages, 1500– 1700
Abstract 78 | PDF Downloads 22Page 197–199
Review of Literary Information in China: A History
Abstract 82 | PDF Downloads 24Page 199–202
Review of Mesopotamian Eye Disease Texts: The Nineveh Treatise
Abstract 79 | PDF Downloads 24Page 202–206
Review of A Reference Grammar of Old Nubian
Abstract 88 | PDF Downloads 25Page 207–208
Review of Making a Case: The Practical Roots of Biblical Law
Abstract 82 | PDF Downloads 26Page 209–212
Review of Elephantine Revisited: New Insights in the Judean Community and Its Neighbors
Abstract 81 | PDF Downloads 22Page 212–214
Review of Childhood in Ancient Egypt
Abstract 75 | PDF Downloads 24Page 214–216
Review of Ancient Weapons of Oman, vol. 1: Edged Weapons
Abstract 74 | PDF Downloads 23Page 216–219
Review of Signs – Sounds – Semantics: Nature and Transformation of Writing Systems in the Ancient Near East
Abstract 97 | PDF Downloads 31Page 219–224
Review of Yahweh among the Gods: The Divine in Genesis, Exodus, and the Ancient Near East
Abstract 98 | PDF Downloads 26Page 224–226
Brief Reviews
Review of A Bibliography of Islamic Criminal Law
Abstract 82 | PDF Downloads 22Page 228–229
Review of The Sufi Saint of Jam: History, Religion, and Politics of a Sunni Shrine in Shiʿi Iran
Abstract 81 | PDF Downloads 23Page 228–229
Review of Design and Destruction: The Palace of Assurbanipal at Nineveh
Abstract 87 | PDF Downloads 26Page 229–230