Review Essays

Book reviewed in this article: THE STORY OF ESTHER IN ITS SEVERAL FORMS: RECENT STUDIES: THE JEWISH NOVEL IN THE ANCIENT WORLD By Lawrence M. Wills THE STORY OF ESTHER IN ITS SEVERAL FORMS: RECENT STUDIES: READING ESTHER: A CASE FOR THE LITERARY CARNIVALESQUE By Kenneth Craig THE STORY OF ESTHER IN ITS SEVERAL FORMS: RECENT STUDIES: THREE FACES OF A QUEEN: CHARACTERIZATION IN THE BOOKS OF ESTHER By Linda Day THE STORY OF ESTHER IN ITS SEVERAL FORMS: RECENT STUDIES: A FEMINIST COMPANION TO ESTHER, JUDITH AND SUSANNA Edited by Athalya Brenner THE STORY OF ESTHER IN ITS SEVERAL FORMS: RECENT STUDIES: ESTHER: A COMMENTARY By Jon D. Levenson OF SWORDS AND POETS: NARRATIVE AND EPIC TRADITION IN ISLAM: THE ADVENTURES OF SAYF BEN DHI YAZAN: AN ARAB FOLK EPIC Translation and narration by Lena Jayyusi. Introduction by Harry Norris OF SWORDS AND POETS: NARRATIVE AND EPIC TRADITION IN ISLAM: THE ARABIAN EPIC: HEROIC AND ORAL STORY‐TELLING By M. C. Lyons OF SWORDS AND POETS: NARRATIVE AND EPIC TRADITION IN ISLAM: VOLUME ONE: INTRODUCTION OF SWORDS AND POETS: NARRATIVE AND EPIC TRADITION IN ISLAM: VOLUME TWO: ANALYSIS OF SWORDS AND POETS: NARRATIVE AND EPIC TRADITION IN ISLAM: VOLUME THREE: TEXTS OF SWORDS AND POETS: NARRATIVE AND EPIC TRADITION IN ISLAM: ISLAM AND THE HEROIC IMAGE: THEMES IN LITERATURE AND THE VISUAL ARTS By John Renard OF SWORDS AND POETS: NARRATIVE AND EPIC TRADITION IN ISLAM: THE THIRSTY SWORD: SI̊AT ANTAR AND THE ARABIC POPULAR EPIC By Peter Heath OF SWORDS AND POETS: NARRATIVE AND EPIC TRADITION IN ISLAM: HEROIC POETS, POETIC HEROES: THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF PERFORMANCE IN AN ARABIC ORAL EPIC TRADITION By Dwight Fletcher Reynolds OF SWORDS AND POETS: NARRATIVE AND EPIC TRADITION IN ISLAM: POET AND HERO IN THE PERSIAN BOOK OF KINGS By Olga M. Davidson OF SWORDS AND POETS: NARRATIVE AND EPIC TRADITION IN ISLAM: THE MUTE IMMORTALS SPEAK: PRE‐ISLAMIC POETRY AND THE POETICS OF RITUAL By Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych OF SWORDS AND POETS: NARRATIVE AND EPIC TRADITION IN ISLAM: THE ZEPHYRS OF NAJD: THE POETICS OF NOSTALGIA IN THE CLASSICAL ARABIC NAS?B By Jaroslav Stetkevych ISLAMIC CENTRAL ASIA: APPROACHES TO RELIGIOSITY AND COMMUNITY: BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ISLAMIC CENTRAL ASIA Compiled and edited by Yuri Bregel ISLAMIC CENTRAL ASIA: APPROACHES TO RELIGIOSITY AND COMMUNITY: ISLAMIZATION AND NATIVE RELIGION IN THE GOLDEN HORDE: BABA TÜKLES AND CONVERSION TO ISLAM IN HISTORICAL AND EPIC TRADITION By Devin Deweese ISLAMIC CENTRAL ASIA: APPROACHES TO RELIGIOSITY AND COMMUNITY: STUDIES ON CHINESE AND ISLAMIC INNER ASIA By Joseph F. Fletcher Edited by Beatrice Forbes Manz ISLAMIC CENTRAL ASIA: APPROACHES TO RELIGIOSITY AND COMMUNITY: GOD'S UNRULY FRIENDS: DERVISH GROUPS IN THE ISLAMIC LATER MIDDLE PERIOD 1200–1550 By Ahmet T. Karamustafa ISLAMIC CENTRAL ASIA: APPROACHES TO RELIGIOSITY AND COMMUNITY: DIE POLITISCHE UND SOZIALE BEDEUTUNG DER NAQŜBANDIYYA IN MITTELASIEN TM. 15. JAHRHUNDERT By Jürgen Paul ISLAMIC CENTRAL ASIA: APPROACHES TO RELIGIOSITY AND COMMUNITY: WAQF IN CENTRAL ASIA: FOUR HUNDRED YEARS IN THE HISTORY OF A MUSLIM SHRINE, 1480–1889 By R. D. McChesney ISLAMIC CENTRAL ASIA: APPROACHES TO RELIGIOSITY AND COMMUNITY: CENTRAL ASIA: FOUNDATIONS OF CHANGE by R. D. McChesney THE PROTEAN PURITAN: THE WORKS OF JONATHAN EDWARDS, VOLUMES 8 TO 16: THE WORKS OF JONATHAN EDWARDS General Editor, Harry S. Stout THE PROTEAN PURITAN: THE WORKS OF JONATHAN EDWARDS, VOLUMES 8 TO 16: Vol. 8, ETHICAL WRITINGS (1989) Edited by Paul Ramsey THE PROTEAN PURITAN: THE WORKS OF JONATHAN EDWARDS, VOLUMES 8 TO 16: Vol. 9, A HISTORY OF THE WORK OF REDEMPTION (1989) Edited by John F. Wilson THE PROTEAN PURITAN: THE WORKS OF JONATHAN EDWARDS, VOLUMES 8 TO 16: Vol. 10, SERMONS AND DISCOURSES, 1720–1723 (1992) Edited by Wilson H. Kimnach THE PROTEAN PURITAN: THE WORKS OF JONATHAN EDWARDS, VOLUMES 8 TO 16: Vol. 11, TYPOLOGICAL WRITINGS (1993) Edited by Wallace E. Anderson, Mason I. Lowance, and David H. Watters THE PROTEAN PURITAN: THE WORKS OF JONATHAN EDWARDS, VOLUMES 8 TO 16: Vol. 12, ECCLESIASTICAL WRITINGS (1994) Edited by David D. Hall THE PROTEAN PURITAN: THE WORKS OF JONATHAN EDWARDS, VOLUMES 8 TO 16: Vol. 13, THE “MISCELLANIES” (ENTRY NOS. A‐Z, AA‐ZZ, 1–500) (1994) Edited by Thomas A. Schafer THE PROTEAN PURITAN: THE WORKS OF JONATHAN EDWARDS, VOLUMES 8 TO 16: Vol. 14, SERMONS AND DISCOURSES, 1723–1729 (1997) Edited by Kenneth P. Minkema THE PROTEAN PURITAN: THE WORKS OF JONATHAN EDWARDS, VOLUMES 8 TO 16: Vol. 15, NOTES ON SCRIPTURE (1998) Edited by Stephen J. Stein THE PROTEAN PURITAN: THE WORKS OF JONATHAN EDWARDS, VOLUMES 8 TO 16: Vol. 16, LETTERS AND PERSONAL WRITINGS (1998) Edited by George S. Claghorn RECENT SCHOLARSHIP ON JONATHAN EDWARDS: THE PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY OF JONATHAN EDWARDS By Sang Hyun Lee RECENT SCHOLARSHIP ON JONATHAN EDWARDS: AMERICA'S THEOLOGIAN: A RECOMMENDATION OF JONATHAN EDWARDS By Robert W. Jenson RECENT SCHOLARSHIP ON JONATHAN EDWARDS: LA PENSÉE DE JONATHAN EDWARDS By Miklós Vetö RECENT SCHOLARSHIP ON JONATHAN EDWARDS: ONE HOLY AND HAPPY SOCIETY: THE PUBLIC THEOLOGY OF JONATHAN EDWARDS By Gerald R. McDermott RECENT SCHOLARSHIP ON JONATHAN EDWARDS: THE PHILOSOPHY OF JONATHAN EDWARDS: A STUDY IN DIVINE SEMIOTICS By Stephen H. Daniel RECENT SCHOLARSHIP ON JONATHAN EDWARDS: JONATHAN EDWARDS: PURITAN, PREACHER, PHILOSOPHER By John E. Smith RECENT SCHOLARSHIP ON JONATHAN EDWARDS: JONATHAN EDWARDS, RELIGIOUS TRADITION, AND AMERICAN CULTURE By Joseph A. Conforti RECENT SCHOLARSHIP ON JONATHAN EDWARDS: EDWARDS ON THE WILL: A CENTURY OF AMERICAN THEOLOGICAL DEBATE By Allen C. Guelzo RECENT SCHOLARSHIP ON JONATHAN EDWARDS: JONATHAN EDWARDS AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Edited by Nathan O. Hatch and Harry S. Stout RECENT SCHOLARSHIP ON JONATHAN EDWARDS: JONATHAN EDWARDS'S WRITINGS: TEXT, CONTEXT, INTERPRETATION Edited by Stephen J. Stein GETTING INTO HINDUISM: A LOOK AT NEW AND REVISED SURVEY TEXTS: HINDUISM: A CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE By David R. Kinsley GETTING INTO HINDUISM: A LOOK AT NEW AND REVISED SURVEY TEXTS: A SURVEY OF HINDUISM By Klaus Klostermaier GETTING INTO HINDUISM: A LOOK AT NEW AND REVISED SURVEY TEXTS: THE CAMPHOR FLAME: POPULAR HINDUISM AND SOCIETY IN INDIA By C. J. Fuller GETTING INTO HINDUISM: A LOOK AT NEW AND REVISED SURVEY TEXTS: “THE HINDU TRADITION” By Vasudha Narayanan GETTING INTO HINDUISM: A LOOK AT NEW AND REVISED SURVEY TEXTS: HINDUS: THEIR RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND PRACTICES By Julius Lipner GETTING INTO HINDUISM: A LOOK AT NEW AND REVISED SURVEY TEXTS: AN INTRODUCTION TO HINDUISM By Gavin Flood GETTING INTO HINDUISM: A LOOK AT NEW AND REVISED SURVEY TEXTS: THE SACRED THREAD: HINDUISM IN ITS CONTINUITY AND DIVERSITY By J. L. Brockington