Journal of Near Eastern Studies

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Their Very Words? A Preliminary Evaluation of Reported Speech in the Qurʾan	10
The Bilingual Chiasmus: A Unique Rhetorical Device for “Knotting” Words in Sumerian-Akkadian Literature	4
al-Hawāmil wa’l-shawāmil, The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century. By Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī and Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh. Edited by Bilal Orfali and Maurice A.	3
The Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics. Edited by Anousha Sedighi and Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxii + 573. $150 (cloth).	3
:Türöffner des Himmels. Prosopographische Studien zur thebanischen Hohepriesterschaft der Ptolemäerzeit	2
Der Palast in Nuzi: Studien zur formalen Struktur des Palastgebäudes und den Funktionen der Palastinstitution. By Hannah Mönninghoff. Schriften zur vorderasiatischen Archäologie 18. Wiesbaden:	1
:Die Zitadelle von Dūr-Katlimmu in mittel- und neuassyrischer Zeit. Teil 1: Text. Teil 2: Katalog. Teil 3: Kassette mit 57 Farbtafeln und Faltplänen	1
Sea and the Combat Myth: North West Semitic Political Mythology in the Hebrew Bible. By Joanna Töyräänvuori. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 427. Münster: Ugarit Verlag, 2018. Pp. xiv + 622. €	1
A New Look at Old Numbers, and What It Reveals about Numeration	1
Qurʾanic Periphrases for the Sake of Rhyme and Rhythm and the Periphrastic Use of Kull	1
The Representation of Emotions and Time in Ancient Egyptian Smiting Scenes	1
:Excavations at the Palatial Complex: Kerkenes Final Reports 2	1
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The Basilica of Betä Sämaʿtiʾ in its Aksūmite, Early Christian, and Late Antique Context	0
A Wayside Shrine in Northern Moab: Excavations in Wadi ath-Thamad. Edited by P. M. Michèle Daviau and Margreet L. Steiner. Wadi Ath-Thamad Project I. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2017. Pp. 272 + 120 fi	0
Divinized Instruments and Divine Music: A Study in Occasional Deification	0
:Life at Court: Ideology and Audience in the Late Assyrian Palace	0
:The Rural Landscapes of Archaic Cyprus: An Archaeology of Environmental and Social Change	0
The Pasts of Roman Anatolia: Interpreters, Traces, Horizons. By Felipe Rojas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xxi + 252 + 75 illustrations + 3 maps. $99.99 (cloth).	0
Soundscapes, Portentous Calls, and Bird Symbolism in the Gilgameš Epic	0
The Date of the Arrival of the Judeans at Elephantine and the Foundation of Their Colony	0
Early Geez Phonology as Reflected in ʔAbbā Garimā I	0
Identifying the “Hands” (and the “Ears”) of the Mesopotamian lilissu-kettledrum	0
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“The Garden of the Reasonable”: Religious Diversity Among Middle Eastern Physicians,ad1000–1500	0

:Purifying a House from Blood: A Hittite Ritual for the Ancient Gods (CTH 446)	0
Friends of the Emir: Non-Muslim State Officials in Premodern Islamic Thought. By Luke B. Yarbrough. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xiv + 361. $120 (cloth), $32.99 (paper).	0
Petteia, Kubeia, and Grammata: Thoth’s Connection with Senet and Knucklebones in Ancient Egypt	0
:Slavery and Dependence in Ancient Egypt: Sources in Translation	0
Using the Syriac Documentary Parchments, Today and in Antiquity	0
Conversion to Islam: Competing Themes in Early Islamic Historiography. By Ayman S. Ibrahim. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xxi + 291. $99 (cloth).	0
:An = Anum and Related Lists	0
The Migration of the Elephantine Yahwists under Amasis II	0
Die Bestattungen der frühen und mittleren Bronzezeit in der zentralen Oberstadt von Tall Mozan/Urkeš: eine vergleichende Analyse zu den Bestattungspraktiken des Oberen Ḫabūrgebietes. By Anne Wi	0
Šurpu: The Missing Tablet	0
Ur in the Twenty-First Century CE. Proceedings of the 62nd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale at Philadelphia, July 11–15, 2016. Edited by Grant Frame, Joshua Jeffers, and Holly Pittman. U	0
:Geschichte und Geographie Westkleinasiens in der Hethiterzeit	0
The Graves of Tell Basmaya and New Insights into Kassite Burial Practices	0
Magical Obstetrics: Anubis, Bird Blood, and a Black Shrew	0
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The Clay World of Çatalhöyük. By Chris Doherty. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2020. Pp. xv + 120 + 18 tables + 95 figures. £35.00 (paper).	0
:Descendants of a Lesser God: Regional Power in Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt	0
:Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible: From Embodied Experience to Moral Metaphor	0
:Everyday Cosmopolitanisms: Living the Silk Road in Medieval Armenia	0
Rumors, Sedition and Personal Relationships: The Parwānah’s Conspiracy and Mongol Rule in Seljuk Anatolia (ad 1255–1277)	0
:Following the Coins from the Excavations at Khirbet Qumran (1951–1956) and Aïn Feshkha (1956–1958)	0
The Virgin Annunciate in the Meccan Qurʾan: Q. Maryam 19:19 in Context	0
:Sasanian and Islamic Settlement and Ceramics in Southern Iran (4th to 17th century AD). The Williamson Collection Project	0
New Evidence for an Early Islamic Arabic Dialect in Eastern Arabia? The Qaṭrāyīth (“in Qatari”) Spoken in Beth Qaṭraye	0
:Suffering in Babylon: Ludlul bēl nēmiqi and the Scholars, Ancient and Modern	0
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A Paleo-Arabic Inscription of a Companion of Muhammad?	0
The Hittite Gilgamesh. By Gary Beckman. The Journal of Cuneiform Studies Supplemental Series 6. Atlanta: Lockwood Press for the American Schools of Oriental Research, 2019. Pp. xv + 95. $59.95	0
‘She Obeys Me’: Lexically Significant Names of Slaves in Egypt (c. 2100–332 bc)	0
A Study in the Syntax of the Luwian Language. By Federico Giusfredi. Texte der Hethiter. Philologische und historische Studien zur Altanatolistik 30. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2020. Pp. 227. €	0
The Making of Empire in Bronze Age Anatolia: Hittite Sovereign Practice, Resistance, and Negotiation. By Claudia Glatz. Pp. xiii + 371 + 64 figures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.	0
Rebel’s Advocate: How Abū ʿUbayda Maʿmar b. al-Muthannā Came to be Labelled a Khārijite	0
Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam. By Sean William Anthony. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. Pp. xiv + 287. $32.95 (cloth).	0
:Tell Khaiber, A Fortified Centre of the First Sealand Dynasty	0
Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum, Volumes IV–V. By E. Leichty, I. L. Finkel, and C. B. F. Walker, with contributions by T. G. Pinches, A. J. Sachs, D. J. Wiseman, W. G.	0
Grapes and Wine in pre-Roman Anatolia: Evidence of Large-Scale Viticulture from Southern Cappadocia, the Land of the Storm-God of the Vineyard	0
Mittani Palaeography. By Zenobia S. Homan. Cuneiform Monographs 48. Leiden: Brill, 2019. Pp. xvi + 396 + figures. 164€/$197 (cloth).	0
The Production of Salt in the Hittite Period and its Trade in Central and Northeastern Anatolia	0
Animal Offerings and Cultic Calendar in the Neo-Babylonian Sippar. By Radosław Tarasewicz and Stefan Zawadzki. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 451. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2018. Pp. xxiv + 102	0
Existential Angst: Non-existential Use of ibašši in Neo-Assyrian	0
A Prophet has Appeared: The Rise of Islam through Christian and Jewish Eyes, A Sourcebook. By Stephen J. Shoemaker. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021. Pp. 320. $90 (cloth), $34.	0
:Tell Abada: An Ubaid Village in Central Mesopotamia	0
Die Sabäischen Inschriften aus Mārib: Katalog, Übersetzung und Kommentar. By Anne Multhoff. Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel Band 9. Rahden: Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2021. Pp	0
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Mesopotamische Schöpfungstexte in Ritualen: Methodik und Fallstudien zur situativen Verortung. By Kerstin Maiwald. Mythological Studies, vol. 3. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. xx + 461 + 2 illus	0
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Kings and their Gods: Representations of Urartian Royal Ideology and Religion in Sargon II’s Letter to the God Ashur	0
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The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue. By Marina Rustow. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. 624 + 83 color illustrations + 17 black and white illustrations	0
The Black Kingdom of the Nile. By Charles Bonnet. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. 224 + 45 color photos + 40 color illustrations + 11 illustrations + 1 table. $42 (cloth).	0

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:The Divine/Demonic Seven and the Place of Demons in Mesopotamia	0
Send Them to Me by This Little One: Child Letter-carriers in Coptic Texts from Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt	0
:The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Qurʾān: The Problem of Tawātur and the Emergence of Shawādhdh	0
The Life of Simeon of the Olives: An Entrepreneurial Saint of Early Islamic North Mesopotamia. By Robert G. Hoyland, Sebastian P. Brock, Kyle B. Brunner, and Jack Tannous. Texts from Christian	0
The Cruciform Seal and Mursili II’s Immediate Predecessors	0
The State of Economic History and Households in the Economy of Early Mesopotamia	0
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Urban Squares in Late Bronze Age Ugarit: a Street View on Ancient Near Eastern Governance	0
Books, Corruption, and an Emir’s Downfall: The Founding of the Maḥmūdīyah Library in Mamluk Cairo	0
A Study of the Deity Elkunirša in Light of an Amulet from Ancient Samʾal	0
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The Ancient City of Giddan/Eddana (Anqa, Iraq), the “Forgotten Twin” of Dura-Europos	0
Islam: An Advanced Introduction. By Roberto Tottoli. London: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 136. $42.95 (paper), $160 (cloth).	0
Ashdod in the Assyrian Period: Territorial Extent and Political History	0
Law and Politics under the Abbasids: An Intellectual Portrait of al-Juwaynī. By Sohaira Siddiqui. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xiii + 312. $99.99 (cloth).	0
:Çukuriçi Höyük 4: Household Economics in the Early Bronze Age Aegean	0
Ashkelon 7: The Iron Age I. Edited by Lawrence E. Stager, Daniel M. Master, and Adam J. Aja. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns, 2020. Pp. xvii + 981 + illustrations (some color) + maps. $159.95	0
Ritual Instructions in the Series Lamaštu	0
“Syrians call you Astarte … Lycian peoples call you Leto”: Ethnic Relations and Circulating Legends in the Villages of Egypt	0
Domestic, Ephemeral, and Creative: Institutions in the EB II Upper Euphrates Region	0
:An Ottoman Cosmography: Translation of Cihānnümā	0
Aegyptiaca in der nördlichen Levante: Eine Studie zur Kontextualisierung und Rezeption ägyptischer und ägyptisierender Objekte in der Bronzezeit. By Alexander Ahrens. Orbis Biblicus et Oriental	0
Salvation and Hell in Classical Islamic Thought: Can Allah Save Us All? By Marco Demichelis. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Pp. viii + 229. $84.00 (cloth).	0
:Officials and Administration in the Hittite World	0
:The “Haus am Hang” at Ḫattuša: A Late Hittite Scriptorium and Its Tablet Collection	0
Allah: God in the Qur’an. By Gabriel Said Reynolds. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. 344. $30 (cloth).	0
Life and Death in the First Clod Incantation of the “Ashur Dream Ritual Compendium”	0
:The Muslim Difference: Defining the Line between Believers and Unbelievers from Early Islam to the Present	0
Humor as Pedagogy: Cases from Mesopotamia in the First Millennium bce	0
Das ägyptische Alte Reich: Diskussionen zur “Ereignisgeschichte” der 3. bis 6. Dynastie. By Vera Blumenthal. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2019. Pp. xv + 265 + 19 figures + 8 tables + 2 diagrams. 64	0
:Akhbār Khadīja bint Khuwaylid fī al-maṣādir al-islāmiyya: Abniyat al-sard wa-l-dhākira wa-l-tārīkh	0
Reflexivity: The Cases of theNiphalandHithpael	0
Yahweh before Israel: Glimpses of History in a Divine Name. By Daniel E. Fleming. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xviii + 320 + 15 figures. $99.99 (cloth).	0
The Otherworld (with)in This World: Imhet as a (Super)natural Conduit between Dimensions in Egyptian Sources	0
Handbook of Ancient Nubia. Edited by Dietrich Raue. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. Pp. xxii + 1111 + 250 illustrations. $320 (cloth).	0
:Mesopotamia: Ancient Art and Architecture	0
Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination. By Jennifer Taylor Westerfeld. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Pp. 256 + 15 illustrations. $59.95 (cloth).	0
A Synchronized Early Middle Bronze Age Chronology for Egypt, the Levant, and Mesopotamia	0
:Color and Meaning in the Art of Achaemenid Persia	0
:The Book of Travels	0
:Exemplars of Kingship: Art, Tradition, and the Legacy of the Akkadians	0
Babylon between the Sealand, Syria, and the Zagros: Samsu-iluna’s last years	0
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Gods and Humans in the Ancient Near East. By Tyson L. Putthoff. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii + 253. $99.99 (cloth).	0
:The Amorites and the Bronze Age Near East: The Making of a Regional Identity	0
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A Physician on the Nile: A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years. By ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī. Edited and translated by Tim Mackintosh-Smith. Library of Arabic Literature. New Y	0
Toponymy on the Periphery: Placenames of the Eastern Desert, Red Sea, and South Sinai in Egyptian Documents from the Early Dynastic until the End of the New Kingdom. By Julien Charles Cooper. B	0
:Projecting a New Empire: Formats, Social Meaning, and Mediality of Arabic in the Umayyad and Early Abbasid Periods	0
Painting the Mediterranean Phoenician: On Canaanite-Phoenician Trade-nets. By Dalit Regev. Sheffield: Equinox Publishers, 2021. Pp. xiii + 231 + 4 maps. £90.00/$125.00 (cloth).	0
Oriental Institute Museum Notes No. 17: An Abydos Setting for a Stela of Osiris Sety I	0
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. By David Graeber and David Wengrow. New York: Macmillan Publishers, 2021. Pp. xii + 692 + 7 maps/figures. $35.00 (cloth).	0
Al-Jūzjānī’s Approach to Hadith Criticism and His “Antagonism toward ʿAlī”: A Comparative Analysis	0
:Opposing the Imam: The Legacy of the Nawāṣib in Islamic Literature	0
Cuneiform in Canaan: The Next Generation. By Wayne Horowitz, Takayoshi Oshima, and Seth L. Sanders. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns, 2018. Second Edition. Pp. xii + 248 + 180 illustrations. $5	0
:The Archive of Thotsutmis, Son of Panouphis. Early Ptolemaic Ostraca from Deir El Bahari (O. Edgerton)	0
:The Islamic-Byzantine Border in History: From the Rise of Islam to the End of the Crusades	0
DhimmīBishops in a Muslim Polity: Endurance and Adaptation of Syriac Episcopal Leadership in the Umayyad and Early Abbasid Periods	0
Babylonian Hermeneutics and Heraclitus	0
Nairi Lands: The Identity of the Local Communities of Eastern Anatolia, South Caucasus and Periphery during The Late Bronze and Early Iron Age. A Reassessment of the Material Culture and the Socio-	0
:Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam	0
“Towards the Mountain Range that Gave Birth to Me …”: A Reconstructed širgida Song of Ninurta from Old Babylonian Nippur (Ninurta J/L)	0
:Pre-Islamic Arabia: Societies, Politics, Cults and Identities during Late Antiquity	0
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Epigraphical Study of the Burial Chamber Belonging to Nakhtmin (TT 87): Materiality and Scribal Hands	0
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Authority and Control in the Countryside: From Antiquity to Islam in the Mediterranean and Near East (6th to 10th Century). Edited by Alain Delattre, Marie Legendre, and Petra M. Sijpesteijn. L	0
:Cuneiform Texts from the Folios of W.G. Lambert. Part Two	0
The Last of an Age: The Making and Unmaking of a Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Poet. By Sooyong Kim. Milton Park, UK: Routledge, 2018. Pp. 155. $160 (cloth); $49.95 (paper).	0
The Ribāṭ as Ṣūfī Lodge: The Historical Evolution of a Term in the Islamic Middle East and Inner Asia	0
The Material and Ideological Base of the Old Babylonian State: History, Economy and Politics. By Lukáš Pecha. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018. Pp. xvii + 361. $121 (cloth).	0
Dan IV: The Iron Age I Settlement. Avraham Biran Excavations 1966–1999. By David Ilan. Annual of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology, Volume XII. Jerusalem: Hebrew Union College-Je	0
:The Origins of Money in the Iron Age Mediterranean World	0
:Feuer und Stein: Gräber und Totenmonumente im eisenzeitlichen Nordsyrien und Südostanatolien in ihren regionalen Kontexten	0
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Abydos: The Sacred Land at the Western Horizon. Edited by Ilona Regulski. British Museum Publications on Egypt and Sudan 8. Leuven: Peeters, 2019. Pp. x + 339 + 183 figures + 56 plates + 3 tabl	0
:Pottery Making and Communities during the 5th Millennium BCE in Fars Province, Southwestern Iran	0
Bergesgleich baute ich hoch: Untersuchungen zur Architektur, Funktion und Bedeutung neuassyrischer Befestigungsanlagen. By Alexander Sollee. Schriften zur vorderasiatischen Archäologie 17. Wies	0
Playing with Persecution: Parallel Jewish and Christian Memories of Late Antiquity in Early Islamic Iraq	0

Unearthing Abraham’s Altar: The Cultic Dimensions ofdīn,islām, andḥanīfin the Qurʾan	0
Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia: Miniaturization and Cultural Hybridity. By Stephanie Langin-Hooper. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xi + 320 + 12 black and white illustrati	0
:Everything as One: A Linguistic View of The Egyptian Creator in the Pyramid Texts	0
:Female Religiosity in Central Asia. Sufi Leaders in the Persianate World	0
:The Practice of Canaanite Cult: The Middle and Late Bronze Ages	0
A Case for Hebrew at Yeb: The “Vidranga Passage” and Judean Diglossia in Fifth Century Elephantine	0
:Before and After Babel: Writing as Resistance in Ancient Near Eastern Empires	0
:Navigating Language in the Early Islamic World. Multilingualism and Language Change in the First Centuries of Islam	0
:Monumentality, Place-Making and Social Interaction on Late Bronze Age Cyprus	0
Re-evaluating the Chronology of the Iron Age Tumuli of Ankara	0
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What Did Ancient Egyptian Pictures Want?	0
Akhenaten and Nefertiti’s Morning Toilette in Karnak	0
Présence et influence assyriennes dans le royaume de Hamat. By Adonice-Ackad Baaklin. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2021. Pp. xi + 371 + 246 figures + 30 tables. €58.00 (paper).	0
The Neo-Assyrian Empire in the Southwest. By Avraham Faust. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xii + 373. £90.00 (cloth).	0
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Ea’s Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story. By Martin Worthington. The Ancient World. London: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 522. $160 (cloth).	0
The Babylonian šumma immeru Omens: Transmission, Reception and Text Production. By Yoram Cohen. Münster: Zaphon, 2020. Pp. xxiv + 406. €98 (cloth).	0
:Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World: From Constantinople to Baghdad, 500–1000 CE	0
:Arabic in Context. Celebrating 400 Years of Arabic at Leiden University	0
The Price of Justice: Revenues Generated by Ottoman Courts of Law in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries	0
On the Meaning of Language in Genesis 11:1–9 and Its Babylonian Background	0
:Lagash I: The Ceramic Corpus from Al-Hiba, 1968–1990. A Chrono-Typology of the Pottery Tradition in Southern Mesopotamia during the 3rd and Early 2nd Millenium BCE	0
The Geography of Trade. Landscapes of Competition and Long-distance Contacts in Mesopotamia and Anatolia in the Old Assyrian Colony Period. By Alessio Palmisano. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2018. Pp.	0
The Evolving Definition of “Word” in Early Northwest Semitic Writing: From ‏דברים‎ to ‏תיבות‎	0
:Das Totenmahl in Syrien im 2. Jahrtausend v. Chr.: Eine Untersuchung zur Bedeutung, Symbolik und Tradition eines altorientalischen Konzepts in philologischer, archäologischer und religionsgeschich	0
Xerxes I, an Heir of Assyria? The Daiva Inscription in Context	0
:Selves Engraved on Stone: Seals and Identity in the Ancient Near East, ca. 1415–1050 bce	0
:Impermanent Monuments, Lasting Legacies: The Dār al-Khilāfa of Samarra and Palace Building in Early Abbasid Iraq	0
Erudite Savagery: Intertextuality in Ashurbanipal’s Account of the Siege of Babylon	0