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Volume 79 - October 2016

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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