Journal of Near Eastern Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Near Eastern Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
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A Synchronized Early Middle Bronze Age Chronology for Egypt, the Levant, and Mesopotamia6
Unearthing Abraham’s Altar: The Cultic Dimensions of dīn, islām, and ḥanīf in the Qurʾan3
The Ṣanʿāʾ Palimpsest: Materializing the Codices3
Perforated Astragali in the Levant and Four Babylonian Omens3
Excavations at Barveh Tepe: New Insights into the Early Bronze Age in Northwest Iran3
Destined for Slaughter: Identifying Seasonal Breeding Patterns in Sheep and Goats in Early Babylonia3
Muhammad and Justinian: Roman Legal Traditions and the Qurʾān2
The First Book of Breathing: A New Assessment Based on an Edition of Papyrus FMNH 313242
Early Bronze Age Clay Sealings from Chogha Maran, the West Central Zagros: A Preliminary Analysis2
Babylonian Hermeneutics and Heraclitus2
The Great Hypostyle Hall in the Temple of Amun at Karnak, vol. 1, parts 2 and 3: Translation and Commentary. By Peter J. Brand, Rosa Erika Feleg, and William J. Murnane†. Oriental In1
Egyptology and Political Theology: An Examination of the Ethics of Scholarship1
New Evidence for an Early Islamic Arabic Dialect in Eastern Arabia? The Qaṭrāyīth (“in Qatari”) Spoken in Beth Qaṭraye1
Urban Squares in Late Bronze Age Ugarit: a Street View on Ancient Near Eastern Governance1
See Ḫattuša and Die: A New Reconstruction of the Journeys of the Babylonian Physician Rabâ-ša-Marduk1
Longitude 45° East: New Evidence for one of the Oldest Political Frontiers in the Ancient World1
A New Look at Old Numbers, and What It Reveals about Numeration1
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).1
Administrative Texts: Allotments of Clothing for the Palace Personnel (Archive L.2769), Archivi Reali di Ebla, Testi XX. By Alfonso Archi, with the collaboration of Gabriella Spada. Wiesbaden: 1
The Meaning of Color in Ancient Mesopotamia. By Shiyanthi Thavapalan. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 104. Leiden: Brill, 2020. Pp. xiii + 509 + 30 plates. $163.00 (cloth).1
The Migration of the Elephantine Yahwists under Amasis II1
The Production of Salt in the Hittite Period and its Trade in Central and Northeastern Anatolia1
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
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The Tribal Affiliations of Shuraḥbīl ibn Ḥasana0
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
Qurʾanic Periphrases for the Sake of Rhyme and Rhythm and the Periphrastic Use of Kull0
:Feuer und Stein: Gräber und Totenmonumente im eisenzeitlichen Nordsyrien und Südostanatolien in ihren regionalen Kontexten0
Oriental Institute Museum Notes No. 17: An Abydos Setting for a Stela of Osiris Sety I0
“Towards the Mountain Range that Gave Birth to Me …”: A Reconstructed širgida Song of Ninurta from Old Babylonian Nippur (Ninurta J/L)0
Rumors, Sedition and Personal Relationships: The Parwānah’s Conspiracy and Mongol Rule in Seljuk Anatolia (ad 1255–1277)0
:Cuneiform Texts from the Folios of W.G. Lambert. Part Two0
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
:Life at Court: Ideology and Audience in the Late Assyrian Palace0
Exegeting Enoch: Re-inscribing a Mesopotamian Figure in the Yahwist Narrative0
Magical Obstetrics: Anubis, Bird Blood, and a Black Shrew0
L’imamat et l’Occultation selon l’imamisme: Étude bibliographique et histoire des textes. By Hassan Ansari. Islamic History and Civilization 134. Leiden: Brill, 2016. Pp. xx + 598. $245 (cloth)0
“Isn’t she a Woman?”: The “Widow of Ephesus” in the Ottoman Empire0
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
Language Between God and the Poets: Maʿnā in the Eleventh Century. By Alexander Key. Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship 2. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2018. P0
:Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World: From Constantinople to Baghdad, 500–1000 CE0
Akhenaten and Nefertiti’s Morning Toilette in Karnak0
Islam: An Advanced Introduction. By Roberto Tottoli. London: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 136. $42.95 (paper), $160 (cloth).0
Caliphate Redefined: The Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political Thought. By Hüseyin Yılmaz. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xiv + 370. $27.95/£22.00 (cloth).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 Virgin Annunciate in the Meccan Qurʾan: Q. Maryam 19:19 in Context0
The Iranian Expanse. Transforming Royal Identity through Architecture, Landscape and the Built Environment, 550 BCE–642 CE. By Matthew P. Canepa. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. 0
Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire. By Paul J. Kosmin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. 392 + 39 photos + 5 maps + 5 tables. $55 (cloth).0
Warriors of Anatolia: A Concise History of the Hittites. By Trevor Bryce. London, New York: I. B. Tauris, 2019. Pp. xii + 288. $27.00 (cloth).0
Handbook of Ancient Nubia. Edited by Dietrich Raue. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. Pp. xxii + 1111 + 250 illustrations. $320 (cloth).0
:Tell Abada: An Ubaid Village in Central Mesopotamia0
The Byzantine Concept of “Syria” as Arab Empire and its Ancient Roots0
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:Arabic in Context. Celebrating 400 Years of Arabic at Leiden University0
The Rebel and the Imam in Early Islam: Explorations in Muslim Historiography. By Najam Haider. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xiv + 304. $99.99 (cloth).0
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 Babylonian šumma immeru Omens: Transmission, Reception and Text Production. By Yoram Cohen. Münster: Zaphon, 2020. Pp. xxiv + 406. €98 (cloth).0
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The Basilica of Betä Sämaʿtiʾ in its Aksūmite, Early Christian, and Late Antique Context0
Bergesgleich baute ich hoch: Untersuchungen zur Architektur, Funktion und Bedeutung neuassyrischer Befestigungsanlagen. By Alexander Sollee. Schriften zur vorderasiatischen Archäologie 17. Wies0
Writing and Society in Ancient Cyprus. By Philippa M. Steele. Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xviii + 272. £75 (cloth).0
Waiting for Müteferrika: Glimpses of Ottoman Print Culture. By Orlin Sabev. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2018. Pp. xxiii + 143 + 3 illustrations. $99.00 (cloth).0
Erudite Savagery: Intertextuality in Ashurbanipal’s Account of the Siege of Babylon0
:The “Haus am Hang” at Ḫattuša: A Late Hittite Scriptorium and Its Tablet Collection0
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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 fi0
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. 640
Ancient Cookware from the Levant: An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective. By Gloria London. Sheffield: Equinox, 2016. Pp. xiv + 312 + 32 figures + 2 maps. $150 (cloth).0
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From Demons to a Slippery Slope: MLC 1948, a new list of Sumerian terms and their equivalents0
Drinking the Dregs of the Divine: Daniel 5 and the Motif of “King and Cup” in its Ancient Near Eastern Context0
Decorated Pottery in Cyprus and Philistia in the 12th Century BC, Cypriot IIIC and Philistine IIIC, Volumes I–II. By Penelope Mountjoy. Contributions to the Chronology of the Eastern Mediterran0
Between Greece and Babylonia: Hellenistic Intellectual History in Cross-Cultural Perspective. By Kathryn Stevens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xx + 443. $135 (cloth).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
A History of Ottoman Political Thought up to the Early Nineteenth Century. By Marinos Sariyannis, with a chapter by E. Ekin Tuşalp Atiyas. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1, The Near and 0
Playing with Persecution: Parallel Jewish and Christian Memories of Late Antiquity in Early Islamic Iraq0
Kinship and Family in Ancient Egypt: Archaeology and Anthropology in Dialogue. By Leire Olabarria. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xv + 277 + 40 figures. $110 (cloth).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
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
Le Devin historien en Mésopotamie. By Jean-Jacques Glassner. Ancient Magic and Divination 16. Leiden: Brill, 2019. Pp. xxvi + 606 + illustrations. $245 (cloth).0
Rebel’s Advocate: How Abū ʿUbayda Maʿmar b. al-Muthannā Came to be Labelled a Khārijite0
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. B0
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:Everyday Cosmopolitanisms: Living the Silk Road in Medieval Armenia0
The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668–631 BC), Aššur-etel-ilāni (630–627 BC), and Sîn-šarra-iškun (626–612 BC), Kings of Assyria, Part 1. By Jamie Novotny and Joshua Jeffers. The Royal In0
On an Incised Palette from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Date, Suggested Provenance, and Use Practices of Grinding Palettes with Engraved Animal Figures0
A Study of the Deity Elkunirša in Light of an Amulet from Ancient Samʾal0
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
“Syrians call you Astarte … Lycian peoples call you Leto”: Ethnic Relations and Circulating Legends in the Villages of Egypt0
Büyükkaya II. Bauwerke und Befunde der Grabungskampagnen 1952–1955 und 1993–1998. Edited by Jürgen Seeher, with contributions by Ulf-Dietrich Schoop and Sven Kühn. Boğazköy-Ḫattuša. Ergebnisse 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
Ea’s Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story. By Martin Worthington. The Ancient World. London: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 522. $160 (cloth).0
Petteia, Kubeia, and Grammata: Thoth’s Connection with Senet and Knucklebones in Ancient Egypt0
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
:Mesopotamia: Ancient Art and Architecture0
An Exploration of Writing. By Peter Daniels, with a foreword by David L. Share. Sheffield, UK: Equinox Publishing, 2018. Pp. 236 + 7 illustrations + 8 maps. $100 (cloth), $35 (paper).0
The Language of Filiation in the Code of Hammurapi0
Ashdod in the Assyrian Period: Territorial Extent and Political History0
The Tiny and the Fragmented: Miniature, Broken, or Otherwise Incomplete Objects in the Ancient World. Edited by S. Rebecca Martin and Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper. Oxford: Oxford University Press0
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 tabl0
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. Pp0
:Akhbār Khadīja bint Khuwaylid fī al-maṣādir al-islāmiyya: Abniyat al-sard wa-l-dhākira wa-l-tārīkh0
Reflexivity: The Cases of theNiphalandHithpael0
Conversion to Islam: Competing Themes in Early Islamic Historiography. By Ayman S. Ibrahim. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xxi + 291. $99 (cloth).0
Stone Tools in the Ancient Near East and Egypt: Ground Stone Tools, Rock-cut Installations and Stone Vessels from Prehistory to Late Antiquity. Edited by Andrea Squitieri and David Eitam. Oxfor0
“The Garden of the Reasonable”: Religious Diversity Among Middle Eastern Physicians,ad1000–15000
Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia: Miniaturization and Cultural Hybridity. By Stephanie Langin-Hooper. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xi + 320 + 12 black and white illustrati0
Symbolism in 13th-centurybcHittite Metallurgy: The Kastamonu-Kınık (Turkey) Metal Hoard, Again0
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.0
:Pottery Making and Communities during the 5th Millennium BCE in Fars Province, Southwestern Iran0
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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. €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
Aegyptiaca in der nördlichen Levante: Eine Studie zur Kontextualisierung und Rezeption ägyptischer und ägyptisierender Objekte in der Bronzezeit. By Alexander Ahrens. Orbis Biblicus et Oriental0
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 Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Qurʾān: The Problem of Tawātur and the Emergence of Shawādhdh0
Life in An Egyptian Village in Late Antiquity: Aphrodito Before and After the Islamic Conquest. By Giovanni Ruffini. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 233. $39.99 (cloth).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. $50
Divinized Instruments and Divine Music: A Study in Occasional Deification0
The Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics. Edited by Anousha Sedighi and Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxii + 573. $150 (cloth).0
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: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 BCE0
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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
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Epigraphical Study of the Burial Chamber Belonging to Nakhtmin (TT 87): Materiality and Scribal Hands0
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On Mass-Producing the Standard Inscription of Ashurnasirpal II0
Cuneiform Texts from the Folios of W.G. Lambert. Part One. Edited by A. R. George and Junko Taniguchi. Mesopotamian Civilizations 24. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2019. Pp. 217. $99.95 (cloth)0
Using the Syriac Documentary Parchments, Today and in Antiquity0
The Unknown Benno Landsberger: A Biographical Sketch of an Assyriological Altmeister’s Development, Exile, and Personal Life. By Luděk Vacín. In collaboration with Jitka Sýkorová. Leipziger Alt0
Naram-Sin’s War against Armanum and Ebla in a Newly-Discovered Inscription from Tulul al-Baqarat0
:Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible: From Embodied Experience to Moral Metaphor0
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-Je0
The Clay World of Çatalhöyük. By Chris Doherty. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2020. Pp. xv + 120 + 18 tables + 95 figures. £35.00 (paper).0
Die Oberstadt von Ḫattuša: Die Bauwerke III. Die Bebauung im südlichen Vorfeld von Büyükkale. Nişantepe – Südburg – Ostplateau (Grabungen 1988–1993). By Peter Neve†, with contributio0
Excavations in the Plain of Antioch III: Stratigraphy, Pottery, and Small Finds from Chatal Höyük in the Amuq Plain. By Marina Pucci with a preface by James Osborne and contributions by John A.0
Their Very Words? A Preliminary Evaluation of Reported Speech in the Qurʾan0
Hittite Landscape and Geography. Edited by Mark Weeden and Lee Z. Ullmann. Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/121. Leiden: Brill, 2017. Pp. xiv + 404 + 70 figures (including 10 color maps). $241 (c0
The Neo-Assyrian Empire in the Southwest. By Avraham Faust. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xii + 373. £90.00 (cloth).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. U0
:An Ottoman Cosmography: Translation of Cihānnümā0
Mittani Palaeography. By Zenobia S. Homan. Cuneiform Monographs 48. Leiden: Brill, 2019. Pp. xvi + 396 + figures. 164€/$197 (cloth).0
:Türöffner des Himmels. Prosopographische Studien zur thebanischen Hohepriesterschaft der Ptolemäerzeit0
The Marking of Poetry: A Rare Vocalization System from an Early Qurʾān Manuscript in Chicago, Paris, and Doha0
Kings and their Gods: Representations of Urartian Royal Ideology and Religion in Sargon II’s Letter to the God Ashur0
The Social Archaeology of the Levant: From Prehistory to the Present. Edited by Assaf Yasur-Landau, Eric H. Cline, and Yorke M. Rowan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xxxvi + 60
:Everything as One: A Linguistic View of The Egyptian Creator in the Pyramid Texts0
:Die Zitadelle von Dūr-Katlimmu in mittel- und neuassyrischer Zeit. Teil 1: Text. Teil 2: Katalog. Teil 3: Kassette mit 57 Farbtafeln und Faltplänen0
Studies in Aramaic Inscriptions and Onomastics IV. By Edward Lipiński. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 250. Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2016. Pp. xiv + 286. 95 € (cloth).0
:The Book of Travels0
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
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
The Price of Justice: Revenues Generated by Ottoman Courts of Law in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries0
The Literary Dynamic of Loyalty and Betrayal in the Aramaic Ahiqar Narrative0
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Kleine Beiträge zum Hurritischen. By Gernot Wilhelm. Studien zu den Boğazköy-Texten, Band 64. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018. Pp. x + 610 + 19 figures + 10 tables. 98€ (cloth).0
Grapes and Wine in pre-Roman Anatolia: Evidence of Large-Scale Viticulture from Southern Cappadocia, the Land of the Storm-God of the Vineyard0
Send Them to Me by This Little One: Child Letter-carriers in Coptic Texts from Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt0
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
Kanišite Hittite: The Earliest Attested Record of Indo-European. By Alwin Kloekhorst. Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/132. Leiden: Brill, 2019. Pp. xii + 303 + 1 illustration + 1 map. $185 (clot0
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 Y0
The Cruciform Seal and Mursili II’s Immediate Predecessors0
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
The Qurʾan and its Biblical Reflexes: Investigations into the Genesis of a Religion. By Mark Durie. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018. Pp. 394. $120.00 (cloth).0
The Otherworld (with)in This World: Imhet as a (Super)natural Conduit between Dimensions in Egyptian Sources0
New evidence regarding Emerald Production in Roman Egypt at Wadi Sikait (Eastern Desert)0
Der Palast in Nuzi: Studien zur formalen Struktur des Palastgebäudes und den Funktionen der Palastinstitution. By Hannah Mönninghoff. Schriften zur vorderasiatischen Archäologie 18. Wiesbaden: 0
:Das Totenmahl in Syrien im 2. Jahrtausend v. Chr.: Eine Untersuchung zur Bedeutung, Symbolik und Tradition eines altorientalischen Konzepts in philologischer, archäologischer und religionsgeschich0
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
Patronage and Prestige in the Countryside: The case of the Church of Mār Domeṭ in medieval northern Mesopotamia0
A Chronicle of the Early Safavids and the Reign of Shah Ismāʻīl: (907–930/1501–1524). By Qāsim Beg Ḥayātī Tabrīzī. Edition of the Persian text and introduction by Kioumars Ghereghlou. American 0
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 illus0
In Search of ʿAlī Ibn Abī Ṭālib’s Codex: History and Traditions on the Earliest Copy of the Qurʾān. By Seyfeddin Kara, with a foreword by James Piscatori. Berlin: Gerlach Press, 2018. Pp. xiii 0
The Late Third Millennium BCE in the Upper Orontes Valley, Syria: Ceramics, Chronology and Cultural Connections. By Melissa A. Kennedy. Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement 46. Peeters: Leuv0
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. L0
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Solomon and The Petrified Birds on the Dome of the Rock0
Books, Corruption, and an Emir’s Downfall: The Founding of the Maḥmūdīyah Library in Mamluk Cairo0
Ancient Knowledge Networks: A Social Geography of Cuneiform Scholarship in First-Millennium Assyria and Babylonia. By Eleanor Robson. London: UCL Press, 2019. Pp. xxiv + 314 + 37 figures + 11 t0
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Tel Beth-Shemesh: A Border Community in Judah. Renewed Excavations 1990–2000: The Iron Age. By Shlomo Bunimovitz and Zvi Lederman. 2 Vols. Tel Aviv University, Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute 0
:Officials and Administration in the Hittite World0
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
Functional Differentiation in Hittite Festival Texts. An Analysis of the Old Hittite Manuscripts of the KI.LAM Great Assembly. By James M. Burgin. Studien zu den Boǧazköy-Texten 65. Wiesbaden: 0
Soundscapes, Portentous Calls, and Bird Symbolism in the Gilgameš Epic0
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:The Origins of Money in the Iron Age Mediterranean World0
Allah: God in the Qur’an. By Gabriel Said Reynolds. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. 344. $30 (cloth).0
Andalus and Sefarad: On Philosophy and Its History in Islamic Spain. By Sarah Stroumsa. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. 248. $35.00 (cloth).0
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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 Wi0
La géographie administrative de l’Empire sassanide: les témoignages épigraphiques en moyen-perse. By Rika Gyselen. Res Orientalis 25. Leuven: Peeters, 2019. Pp. xxxviii + 462. 125€ (cloth).0
:Exemplars of Kingship: Art, Tradition, and the Legacy of the Akkadians0
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 + 1020
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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
Like a Runaway Slave: The Discourse of an Eighth-Century Muslim Ascetic0
The Date of the Arrival of the Judeans at Elephantine and the Foundation of Their Colony0
The Bilingual Chiasmus: A Unique Rhetorical Device for “Knotting” Words in Sumerian-Akkadian Literature0
Another Look at an Ugaritic Gloss (RS 17.33)0
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