Journal of the American Oriental Society, Volume 36American Oriental Society., 1917 "Proceedings" or "Select minutes of meetings" are included in each volume (except volumes 3, 12). |
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ádhi Akkadian amulet ancient animals appears Arabic Assyrian Assyriologie Babylonian Batán become beginning bless Brahman Bur-Sin burkhan called conception connection cows Cuneiform cylinder dance death deity demons dialects Dilmun dingir divine determinative Dungi earth element Enki Enlil Eridu F. W. Bain father field Girnar goddess gods Gudea Hebrew Hindu husband India Indra inscriptions intervocalic JAOS 36 Jastrow king land Langdon languages laugh literature Lüders mändäl Marduk Maruts meaning motif mountain Museum myth Ninkurra Nintu Nippur Oriental original Pāli Pañcatantra PAOS particle passage passive stems Persian plant present prince Prof Professor rain reduplicated rendered root Sanskrit Semitic Society Soma story Sulu Sumerian syllable tablet Tagalog temple thee thou Tiamat tion translation University Upanisads Vedic verb vowel wife word worship Yima
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Page 325 - Again will I build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: again shalt thou be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
Page 445 - The Treasurer shall have charge of the funds of the Society ; and his investments, deposits, and payments shall be made under the superintendence of the Board of Directors. At each annual meeting he shall report the state of the finances, with a brief summary of the receipts and payments of the previous year.
Page 17 - If any harm follows, then you shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Page 445 - Decemljer 31, 1896, the fiscal year of the Society shall correspond with the calendar year. III. c. At each annual business meeting in Easter week, the President shall appoint an auditing committee of two men — preferably men residing in or near the town where the Treasurer lives — to examine the Treasurer's accounts and vouchers, and to inspect the evidences of the Society's property, and to see that the funds called for by his balances are in his hands.
Page 325 - Now in the mild summer is the season of muzayyins, the Nomad children's circumcision feasts : the mother's booth is set out with beggarly fringes of scarlet shreds, tufts of mewed ostrich feathers, and such gay gauds as they may borrow or find. Hither a chorus assembles of slender daughters of their neighbours, that should chant at this festival in their best array. A fresh kerchief binds about every damsel's forehead with a feather ; she has ear-rings great as bracelets, and wears to-day her nose-ring...
Page 159 - Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
Page 326 - Aarab raillery is never long silent, and often the young men, in this daylight feast, stand jesting about them. Some even pluck roughly at the feathers of the lasses, their own near cousins, in the dance, which durst answer them nothing, but only with reproachful eyes : or laughing loud the weleds have bye and bye divided this gentle bevy among them for...
Page 324 - ... had no festivals like the fifteenth of Ab and the Day of Atonement, for on them the maidens of Jerusalem used to go out, clad in white garments, which had been borrowed, in order not to put to shame those who had none (of their own).
Page 175 - Renaissance was born and also attained its fullest growth. There, in the times of Petrarch and Dante, men began to read once more the great masterpieces of Latin antiquity and to be molded by them. There, on the fall of Constantinople into the hands of the Turks in 1453, came the Greek scholars who fled to the West, greatly stimulating, if they did not actually introduce, the study of the Greek classics.