Dear colleagues (apologies for cross-posting),

I am very glad to announce the publication of the following volume in honour of Professor Jens E. Braarvig on the occasion of his seventieth birthday:

"Reading Slowly - A Festschrift for Jens E. Braarvig," edited by Lutz Edzard, Jens W. Borgland and Ute Hüsken (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag; 2018; ISBN 978-3-447-10964-2).

Although it contains contributions from a variety of fields, this book contains much of interest to the members of the Indology list. The publisher's website—where the volume may also be purchased (https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/Reading_Slowly/title_4134.ahtml)—describes the book as follows:

"Reading Slowly contains contributions from a variety of fields as diverse as Buddhist Studies, Linguistics, Middle Eastern Studies, Indology, East Asia Studies, Sinology, Classical Studies and Nordic Studies, all focused in some way on the importance of philological scholarship for understanding history, culture, religion, language and law. Although their objects of study, source language(s), media, focus and research questions are different, the essays in this volume are firmly bound together by the philological method –in the broadest sense of the term –and the scholarship of Jens E. Braarvig, whose vast scope of interest and knowledge is reflected in the breadth of this Festschrift. With contributions dealing directly with sources in languages such as Sanskrit, Pāli, Tibetan, Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew, Hurrian, Korean, Latin, Greek and Old Norse, preserved on materials such as birch bark and paper manuscripts, clay tablets, wood slabs, printed editions, and modern day street signs, this volume is not only a homage to the breadth of Jens Braarvig's scholarship, but also a demonstration of the importance of language proficiency and philology for the humanities."

The table of contents can be viewed here: https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/pdfjs/web/viewer.html?file=/ddo/artikel/71633/978-3-447-10964-2_Table%20of%20Contents.pdf#pagemode=thumbs

Sincerely,

Jens