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The Journal of the American Oriental Society (ISSN 0003-0279) is published quarterly by the American Oriental Society. 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
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Effective with volume 142 (2022), current issues of JAOS will be available only through Lockwood Online Journals. All issues prior to 2022 will continue to be available through the JSTOR archive (jstor.org). In addition to current content, Lockwood Online Journals hosts content going back to 2013 with volume 133.


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Current Issue

Vol. 143 No. 3 (2023): Journal of the American Oriental Society

Published: 2023-08-22

Front Matter

Front Matter

Editors
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Articles

The Great Mahābhārata After-Dinner Talk

James L. Fitzgerald
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Page 491–497

The Marvelous Bookcase

Xiaojing Miao
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Page 499–513

Beyond Logography

Marian Olech
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Page 515–535

Corruption and Violence in Early Dynastic Mari (As Seen from Ebla)

I. Arkhipov, L. Kogan, E. Markina
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Page 537–554

The Emergence and Evolution of the West Karaim Bible Translation Tradition

Michał Németh, Anna Sulimowicz-Keruth
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Page 555–580

Solving the Ninth-Century West Syrian Synoptic Problem

Yonatan Moss, Flavia Ruani
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Page 581–606

The Problem of the Quranic al-ṣamad

Andrew Hammond
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Page 607–631

Brief Communications

The First Swedish Translation from the Lunyu

Christian Nordvall
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Page 677–686

Review Articles

Another Life of the First Emperor

Yuri Pines
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Page 687–695

Reviews

Review of The Sumerians

Amanda H. Podany
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Page 709–711

Review of Ritualbeschreibungen und Gebete III

Evelyne Koubková
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Page 724–726

Review of Archaeology of Empire in Achaemenid Egypt

Christopher J. Tulpin
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Page 726–728

Review of Max van Berchem, un orientaliste

Benjamin Michaudel
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Page 733–735

Review of The Abbasid Caliphate: A History

Hayrettin Yücesoy
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Page 738–740

Brief Reviews

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