Volume 145 / Number 2 / April–June 2025 ISSN 0003-0279 Articles SRI SATHVIK RAYALA, Code-Switching of Regal Identity in the Early Modern Deccan              229 YASUKO SUZUKI, Development of r-clusters in Gandhari: Interaction of Consonant Cluster Reduction and Mobile Rhotics                                                               253 LU KOU, “As If Heaven Was Warning”: Omens and Interpretations in Shen Yue’s Song shu 宋書     285 JIANJUN HE, A Young Lady’s Passion for Cats: Sun Sunyi and Three Qing Compendia on Cats        309 NA‘AMA PAT-EL, The Semitic “Perfect” and the Problem of the Third Person Zero Morpheme        327 NILI SHUPAK, The Joseph Story (Genesis 37–50) from an Egyptological Perspective: Multilayered Story or Exilic Novella?                                                           349 ELI TADMOR, Counting Lines in Erra  369 MOHAMMAD AMIN MANSOURI, In the Name of Letters: Basmala as the Cosmic Design             381 SARA OMAR, Gendering Sex: Delineating the Licit from the Illicit                              401 Brief Communication GUY SHAPIRA, mAa xrw before the Fifth Dynasty?                                           419 Reviews                                                                            423