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American Society for Premodern Asia @aspa1842.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Issue 146:3 of JASPA is out online www.lockwoodonlinejournals.com/index.php/ja...: preface as genre, king Wen the parricide, insolvent debtors in Babylonia, infanticide ca. 600, Sanskrit grammar on 'and', oral sex in Sanskrit erotics, Hebrew & Egyptian soldiers as lions, & diverse accounts of Shimr

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American Society for Premodern Asia @aspa1842.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"We are on the cusp of a dramatic shift in perspective": global antiquity and global Middle Ages are getting more attention. We at ASPA have been right on it for the last 184 years! aeon.co/essays/uncov... @aeon.co

A model chariot discovered in Tajikistan, dating from the 5th-4th century BCE. Courtesy the British Museum, London

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American Society for Premodern Asia @aspa1842.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Issue 146:2 of JASPA (former JAOS) is out online lockwoodonlinejournals.com/index.php/ja... on: Karna in Jain epic, Song of a Yue Person, Old Persian Hinduš & Gandāra, Chan in Tangut, Hymn to Ninurta as Savior, Uriah the Hittite, Shah Safi Safavi, al-Ghazālī on pleasure, & Jingjiao stele Christians

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American Society for Premodern Asia @aspa1842.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

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!

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American Society for Premodern Asia @aspa1842.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

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!

Cover of JAOS 145.4, with table of contents

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American Society for Premodern Asia @aspa1842.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

The American Society for Premodern Asia web portal is now live on our new domain name: www.aspa1842.org

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American Society for Premodern Asia @aspa1842.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

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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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

New issue of the JAOS Vol. 145 No. 3 (2025) lockwoodonlinejournals.com/index.php/ja... @tommazanec.bsky.social @aspa1842.bsky.social

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American Society for Premodern Asia @aspa1842.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

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!

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American Society for Premodern Asia @aspa1842.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

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.

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American Society for Premodern Asia @aspa1842.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

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

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American Society for Premodern Asia @aspa1842.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

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American Society for Premodern Asia @aspa1842.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

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!)

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ISTB University of Vienna, Austria @istb-univienna.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

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...

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Of Lay Practitioners, Ascetics, and Tāntrikas: Rituals and Society in Early Śaivism

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American Society for Premodern Asia @aspa1842.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

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!

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American Society for Premodern Asia @aspa1842.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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...

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200 Years of Albrecht Weber – Pioneer of Indology and his Scholarly Legacy - SBB aktuell

February 17th 2025 will mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Indologist Friedrich Albrecht Weber (17.2.1825–30.11.1901). His far-reaching influence and international network had a significan...

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American Society for Premodern Asia @aspa1842.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

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...

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The Decline and Fall of Semitic Linguistics on JSTOR

Naˁama Pat-El, The Decline and Fall of Semitic Linguistics, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Vol. 110 (2020), pp. 67-86

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Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

"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?...

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2020杜正民教授獎專題演講 / Aming Tu Prize (2020) Award Speech

YouTube video by 典藏組數位

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Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Well done, sands of the Taklamakan desert! #Unprovenanced #SilkRoad #Buddhism

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American Society for Premodern Asia @aspa1842.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

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

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Written Middle Persian Literature under the Sasanids | Lockwood Press Online

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American Society for Premodern Asia @aspa1842.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

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

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DOT 2025 - 35th Deutscher Orientalistentag FAU | DMG

35th Deutscher Orientalistentag DOT 2025 8th–12th September 2025 | FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg The Deutsche Orientalistentag (DOT) is the largest conference of Oriental Studies in the German-speaking area…

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American Society for Premodern Asia @aspa1842.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

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

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Discovery Announcement!

The South Asasif Conservation Project is very grateful to the Ministry of Antiquities and Dr. Mohamed Ismail Khaled, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities for their support of the…

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National Endowment for the Humanities @nehgov.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Update: the application deadline for the NEH's Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program has been extended to Jan. 10, 2025.

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Andrew Quintman @andrewquintman.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I love that many of the exhibition objects can be viewed online with details (and in many cases downloaded too). www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

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Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Exhibition now on view at The Met

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American Society for Premodern Asia @aspa1842.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

JAOS 144.1 table of contents. 4/4 doi.org/10.7817/jaos.144.1.2024

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American Society for Premodern Asia @aspa1842.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

JAOS 144.2 table of contents. 3/4 doi.org/10.7817/jaos.144.2.2024

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American Society for Premodern Asia @aspa1842.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

JAOS 144.3 table of contents. 2/4 doi.org/10.7817/144.3.2024

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American Society for Premodern Asia @aspa1842.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

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

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American Society for Premodern Asia @aspa1842.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

JAOS 144.1 table of contents. 4/4 doi.org/10.7817/jaos.144.1.2024

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American Society for Premodern Asia @aspa1842.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

JAOS 144.2 table of contents. 3/4 doi.org/10.7817/jaos.144.2.2024

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American Society for Premodern Asia @aspa1842.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

JAOS 144.3 table of contents. 2/4 doi.org/10.7817/144.3.2024

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