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THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SEMITIC
LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

Agrata
THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

LONDON AND EDINBURGH

THE MARUZEN-KABUSHIKI-KAISHA

TOKYO, OSAKA, KYOTO

KARL W. HIERSEMANN

LEIPZIG

THE BAKER & TAYLOR COMPANY

NEW YORK

The American Journal

of

Semitic Languages

and

Literatures

FOUNDED BY WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER

Editor
ROBERT FRANCIS HARPER

Co-operating Editors
EMIL GUSTAV HIRSCH IRA MAURICE PRICE

JAMES HENRY BREASTED JOHN MERLIN POWIS SMITH

Associate Editors

GEORGE FOOT MOORE FRANCIS BROWN

Harvard University Union Theological Seminary

HENRY PRESERVED SMITH CHARLES C. TORREY

Meadville Theological School Yale University

MORRIS JASTROW, Jr. JOHN DYNELEY PRINCE

University of Pennsylvania Columbia University

VOLUME XXX
OCTOBER, J9I3-JULY, J914

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

Published
October, 1913, January, April, July, 1914

Composed and Printed By

The University of Chicago Press

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

OCTOBEB. 1918

I. Source Study and the Biblical Text. By A. T. Olmstead - - 1-35

II. The Ordeal in Num., Chap. 5. By Julius A. Bewer - 36-47

III. Business Documents of the Hammurabi Period. III. By Leroy

Waterman ........... 48-73

IV. Book Notice 74-80

Dr. Harri Holma, Die Namen der Korperteile im Assyrisch-
Babylonischen, S. Langdon.

JANUABY, 1914

I. The Composition of Judges, Chap. 19. By Julius A. Bewer - - 81—93

II. On I"131Dn PnrnM ("The Day after the Sabbath"). By Morris

Jastrow, Jr. ----------- 94-110

III. Old Testament Parallels to "Tabellae Defixionum." By W.

Sherwood Fox 111-124

IV. The Ancient History of the Near East. By James Henry Breasted

(with remarks on Western Asia, by Daniel David Luckenbill) - - 125-137

V. Book Notices ----- 138-148

F. D. Thornton, H. R. Nicholson, T. H. Weir, "Thornton Arabic
Series," Charles C. Torrey. — Paul Casanova, Mohammed et la fln du
monde; Leone Caetani, Chronographia Islamica, Richard Gottheil. —
Otto Puchstein, Boghaskoi, Die Bauwerke, George A. Barton.

APRIL, 1914

I. The Composition of Judges, Chaps. 20, 21. By Julius A. Bewer - 149-165

II. Babylonian Legal and Business Documents from the First Baby-
lonian Dynasty, Transliterated, Translated, and Annotated.
By George S. Duncan --------- 166-195

III. The Oath in Cuneiform Inscriptions. By Samuel A. B. Mercer - 196-211

IV. The Babylonian Equations for Syria. By J. Dyneley Prince - - 212-218

V. Two Inscriptions of Mesilim, King of Kish. By D. D. Luckenbill - 219-223

VI. Book Notices 224-232

Klauber, Politisch-religibse Texte aus der Sargonidenzeit, S. Langdon.
— Boeser, Beschreibung der aegyptischen Sammlung des nieder-
landischen Reiehs-Museums der Altertiimer in Leiden, James H.
Breasted. — Montgomery, Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur,
George A.Barton.

vi Table of Contents

JULY, 1914

I. Zur Politik ond Kulttjb der Sargonidenzeit. Von Ernst Georg

Klauber 233-287

II. Lexicographical Note on ulu^innu, Balsam, Pistacea Wine.

By S. Langdon 288-289

III. A New Inscription of An-am. By C. H. W. Johns ... - 290-291

IV. Book Notices 292-294

Sellin und Watzinger, Jericho, die Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen,
George' A. Barton. — Eoeder, Agyptisch. Praktische Einfuhrung in
die Hieroglyphen und die agyptische Sprache, etc., James Henry
Breasted. — Brunnow's Arabische Chrestomathie aus Prosaschrift-
stellern, Charles C. Torrey.

V. General Index ----- 295-296