TOC of JASPA 146.1 (2026).
Issue 146:1 of JASPA (former JAOS) is out online lockwoodonlinejournals.com/index.php/ja...: on quranic reading in Andalus, holy tombs in Cairo, Tamil temple endowments, vratyas in Atharva Veda, military bounties in China, Mori Ōgai’s Dancing Girl, child-slaves in Egypt, Sumerian wordplay, & more!
Cover of JAOS 145.4, with table of contents
Issue 145:4 of the JAOS is out online doi.org/10.7817/jaos... , with articles on: Yahwists in Elephantine, oracular law in Assyria, syntax in Qur'anic interpretation, r vs rr in Khotan, Mongol text of the 1413 Tyr stele, Old Chinese parts of speech, Song dynasty incense trade, and more!
ASPA1846.org home page
The American Society for Premodern Asia web portal is now live on our new domain name: www.aspa1842.org
JAOS 145.3 is out: doi.org/10.7817/jaos..., articles on: autobiog of becoming, Ming women's anger, an old term for foreigners in China, cuneiform word lists, neo-Babylonian chronicles, the epic of Aqhat, Tabari's poetic license, bustling Buddhist monasteries, the aims of Sanskrit doxography, & more!
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New issue of the JAOS Vol. 145 No. 3 (2025) lockwoodonlinejournals.com/index.php/ja... @tommazanec.bsky.social @aspa1842.bsky.social
Issue 145:2 of the JAOS is out online: doi.org/10.7817/jaos... with articles on: Regal code-switching in the Deccan, r-clusters in Gandhari, omens in Song shu, 3 Qing compendia on cats, the Semitic perfect tense, Joseph in Egypt, counting lines in Erra, basmala as cosmic design, and gendering sex!
Accordingly, our venerable journal, the JAOS, will continue from 2026 as the JASPA, publishing the same fundamental in-depth research on Asia and North Africa, from antiquity to the cusp of modernity, as it has since 1843.
At the 235th Meeting yesterday, we voted to continue our work under a new name: the American Society for Premodern Asia. We invite all scholars who work on languages, literatures, history, and material culture of West, Central, South, and East Asia, and North Africa join us! #ancient #medieval #asia
Accordingly, our venerable journal, the JAOS, will continue from 2026 as the JASPA, publishing the same fundamental in-depth research on Asia and North Africa, from antiquity to the cusp of modernity, as it has since 1843.
The 235th Meeting of the Society is happening this week (Wedneday through Saturday) at the Omni Parker House Hotel in Boston. The program is online here: www.aos-site.org/docs.ashx?id... (On-site registration is available in case you are in town!)
Lay Practitioners, Ascetics, and Tāntrikas: Rituals and Society in Early Śaivism
On Thursday, April 10, at the CEU Center for Religious Studies in Vienna, Dr. Nina Mirnig will speak about negotiation, adaptation, and innovation in Śaivism during its formative phase:
events.ceu.edu/2025-04-10/l...
Cover of the JAOS 145.1
The first JAOS issue 2025 is out online: lockwoodonlinejournals.com/index.php/ja... with articles on: early Muslim converts; the 1st world history; Tamil God in Sanskrit; Atiśa in Tangut mss; Yang Ningshi's calligraphy; Han verse; Amarna politics; Mesopotamian hermeneutics; & Aramaic cadastres!
A symposium at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, 17–18 February 2025, on Albrecht Weber’s correspondence and his influence on the development of Indology, marking the 200th anniversary of his birth. For program & abstracts, and to register for the livestream, visit: blog.sbb.berlin/200-years-of...
This 2020 essay reflecting on the state of the discipline of Semitic linguistics is more urgently relevant in 2025. Pat-El's recommendations apply for philologists and premodernists generally: to reverse balkanization, broaden training,& increase interdisciplinary work. www.jstor.org/stable/27132...
"Most of our sources are not properly provenanced. They are the result of ... lootings and, you know, it's very hard to say where any of these things come from" (Professor Stefan Baums) #DeadSeaScrollsofBuddhism
youtu.be/jLHQwsDMzfQ?...
Well done, sands of the Taklamakan desert!
#Unprovenanced #SilkRoad #Buddhism
There was much more than just oral lit in Sasanid Iran, argues Kevin van Bladel; much writing simply was not preserved. "Written Middle Persian Literature under the Sasanids" (AOS Essay Series 16) is available OA: lockwoodpressonline.com/index.php/eb... #Iran #Persian #philology #AncientBluesky
Submissions of paper proposals are being accepted until 31st January for the 35th Deutscher Orientalistentag (#DOT2025), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 8–12 September: a major venue for research on languages, cultures and societies of the Middle East, Asia and Africa. www.dot2025.fau.eu
The Egyptian-American mission South Asasif Conservation Project, working with the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, has discovered a Middle Kingdom tomb with several intact burials near the 25th-dynasty tomb of Karabasken (TT 391). Announcement: southasasif.wordpress.com/2024/11/01/d... #egypt
Applications are being accepted till 12 Jan. for the Florence Tan Moeson Research Fellowship at the Library of Congress.
The fellowship provides $300–3,000 to pursue research in Asian studies in the Asian Division & LOC collecttions @librarycongress.bsky.social in DC. www.loc.gov/research-cen...
Update: the application deadline for the NEH's Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program has been extended to Jan. 10, 2025.
I love that many of the exhibition objects can be viewed online with details (and in many cases downloaded too).
www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/...
JAOS 144.1 table of contents
JAOS 144.1 table of contents. 4/4 doi.org/10.7817/jaos.144.1.2024
JAOS 144.2 table of contents
JAOS 144.2 table of contents. 3/4 doi.org/10.7817/jaos.144.2.2024
JAOS 144.3 table of contents
JAOS 144.3 table of contents. 2/4 doi.org/10.7817/144.3.2024
JAOS 144.4 table of contents
Hello Bluesky World! Here's the table of contents of the latest issue of the JAOS, with a link to the issue. Earlier 2024 issues in the comments. 1/4 doi.org/10.7817/10.7817/jaos.144.4.2024
JAOS 144.1 table of contents
JAOS 144.1 table of contents. 4/4 doi.org/10.7817/jaos.144.1.2024
JAOS 144.2 table of contents
JAOS 144.2 table of contents. 3/4 doi.org/10.7817/jaos.144.2.2024
JAOS 144.3 table of contents
JAOS 144.3 table of contents. 2/4 doi.org/10.7817/144.3.2024
