Acknowledgments

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Acknowledgments

Bringing this volume to completion took longer than expected due to the global pandemic and its aftermath, so it is truly a pleasure to now finally be able to acknowledge and thank those who offered support along the way. First and foremost, the authors are grateful to the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies for hosting the “New Directions in the Study of Javanese Literature” research group during the 2018–2019 academic year. We thank the Institute’s Director Yitzhak Hen, the Administrative Director Iris Avivi and the entire staff for making our stay both productive and very enjoyable.

At Brill we thank the VKI series editors, as well as Chunyan Shu, Iulia Ivana and Dove Morissette. Two most generous and knowledgeable reviewers offered comments and questions that made this a better book, for which we are grateful. Thank you to Leigh Chipman for her meticulous copyediting and to the Museum Sonobudoyo in Yogyakarta for permission to use an image from one of its manuscripts on the cover.

Our sincere gratitude goes to the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, the Israel Science Foundation (Book Publication Grant no. 48/23) and the American Academy of Religion for the funding that enabled us to bring this volume to fruition and publish it in an open access format.

Above all, it has been the mutual support, generosity and friendship amongst our research group’s members that have made working on this volume a most valuable experience.

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