What Difference Does Time Make? Papers From the Ancient and Islamic Middle East and China in Honor of the 100th Anniversary of the Midwest Branch of the American Oriental Society

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents Page
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction
	What Difference Does Time Make?
		JoAnn Scurlock
	The Middle West Branch of the American Oriental Society at 100
		Wayne T. Pitard
Time as a Concept
	From Beyond Time and Space: Master Zhuang’s Cosmogony and Modern Physics
		Amelia Qin
Measuring Time
	The Gifts of Mihragān: Muslim Governers and Gift Giving during Non-Muslim Holidays
		Robert Haug
	Feasting in the Garden of God: Ramat Rahel and the Origins of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur?
		JoAnn Scurlock
Travels through Time
	Time, Travel, and the Homesick Hero
		Louise M. Pryke
	The Older the Better: The Critical Conception of Lateness in Song China
		Xiaoshan Yang
	The Evolution of Terracotta from the First to the Second Half of the II Millennium BC
		Laura Battini
	Sea-Water, Bequests, and the Textualism-Tradition Tension in Islamic Law
		Suheil Laher
Wrinkles in Time
	Converging Lines of Evidence: Archaeological and Chronological Data Supporting a 792 BC Date for the Iron IIa-IIb Transition in the Southern Levant
		Jeffrey P. Hudon
	The Hyksos and the Exodus: Two 400-Year Stories
		Peter Feinman
	Chinese Sovereign Revolution: Temporal acceleration toward a better future?*
		Maria Adele Carrai
	Nippur’s Galileo Problem: Time for a Revolutionary new Beginning to Time?
		JoAnn Scurlock
	Index