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unusual facts about Journal of the American Oriental Society


Indian History and Culture Society

The group's first publication, the 1979 Problems of Indian Historiography (ed. Devahuti; review: M. N. Pearson, Journal of the American Oriental Society 1981) has the aim to "reorient Indian historiography".


Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament

William W. Hallo, writing in the Journal of the American Oriental Society in 1970, described it as "a modern classic ever since its first appearance in 1950", because "for the first time it assembled some of the most significant Ancient Near Eastern texts in authoritative, generously annotated English translations based on the accumulated insight of several generations of scholarship scattered".


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