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
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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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
Domestic, Ephemeral, and Creative: Institutions in the EB II Upper Euphrates Region	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
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
:The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Qurʾān: The Problem of Tawātur and the Emergence of Shawādhdh	0
:The “Haus am Hang” at Ḫattuša: A Late Hittite Scriptorium and Its Tablet Collection	0
Urban Squares in Late Bronze Age Ugarit: a Street View on Ancient Near Eastern Governance	0
Life and Death in the First Clod Incantation of the “Ashur Dream Ritual Compendium”	0
Humor as Pedagogy: Cases from Mesopotamia in the First Millennium bce	0
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The Ancient City of Giddan/Eddana (Anqa, Iraq), the “Forgotten Twin” of Dura-Europos	0
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

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
Handbook of Ancient Nubia. Edited by Dietrich Raue. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. Pp. xxii + 1111 + 250 illustrations. $320 (cloth).	0
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:Akhbār Khadīja bint Khuwaylid fī al-maṣādir al-islāmiyya: Abniyat al-sard wa-l-dhākira wa-l-tārīkh	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
Al-Jūzjānī’s Approach to Hadith Criticism and His “Antagonism toward ʿAlī”: A Comparative Analysis	0
A Synchronized Early Middle Bronze Age Chronology for Egypt, the Levant, and Mesopotamia	0
:The Book of Travels	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
:Mesopotamia: Ancient Art and Architecture	0
:An Ottoman Cosmography: Translation of Cihānnümā	0
DhimmīBishops in a Muslim Polity: Endurance and Adaptation of Syriac Episcopal Leadership in the Umayyad and Early Abbasid Periods	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
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“Syrians call you Astarte … Lycian peoples call you Leto”: Ethnic Relations and Circulating Legends in the Villages of Egypt	0
Babylon between the Sealand, Syria, and the Zagros: Samsu-iluna’s last years	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
:The Muslim Difference: Defining the Line between Believers and Unbelievers from Early Islam to the Present	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
:Officials and Administration in the Hittite World	0
:Projecting a New Empire: Formats, Social Meaning, and Mediality of Arabic in the Umayyad and Early Abbasid Periods	0
Allah: God in the Qur’an. By Gabriel Said Reynolds. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. 344. $30 (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. $5	0
The Otherworld (with)in This World: Imhet as a (Super)natural Conduit between Dimensions in Egyptian Sources	0
:The Islamic-Byzantine Border in History: From the Rise of Islam to the End of the Crusades	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
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
Reflexivity: The Cases of theNiphalandHithpael	0
:Color and Meaning in the Art of Achaemenid Persia	0
:Exemplars of Kingship: Art, Tradition, and the Legacy of the Akkadians	0
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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
:Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam	0
:The Amorites and the Bronze Age Near East: The Making of a Regional Identity	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
:Cuneiform Texts from the Folios of W.G. Lambert. Part Two	0
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Epigraphical Study of the Burial Chamber Belonging to Nakhtmin (TT 87): Materiality and Scribal Hands	0
Oriental Institute Museum Notes No. 17: An Abydos Setting for a Stela of Osiris Sety I	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
:Opposing the Imam: The Legacy of the Nawāṣib in Islamic Literature	0
:The Origins of Money in the Iron Age Mediterranean World	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 Archive of Thotsutmis, Son of Panouphis. Early Ptolemaic Ostraca from Deir El Bahari (O. Edgerton)	0
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
Babylonian Hermeneutics and Heraclitus	0
Bergesgleich baute ich hoch: Untersuchungen zur Architektur, Funktion und Bedeutung neuassyrischer Befestigungsanlagen. By Alexander Sollee. Schriften zur vorderasiatischen Archäologie 17. Wies	0
:Feuer und Stein: Gräber und Totenmonumente im eisenzeitlichen Nordsyrien und Südostanatolien in ihren regionalen Kontexten	0
Unearthing Abraham’s Altar: The Cultic Dimensions ofdīn,islām, andḥanīfin the Qurʾan	0
:Pre-Islamic Arabia: Societies, Politics, Cults and Identities during Late Antiquity	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
“Towards the Mountain Range that Gave Birth to Me …”: A Reconstructed širgida Song of Ninurta from Old Babylonian Nippur (Ninurta J/L)	0
A Case for Hebrew at Yeb: The “Vidranga Passage” and Judean Diglossia in Fifth Century Elephantine	0
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
On the Meaning of Language in Genesis 11:1–9 and Its Babylonian Background	0
:Navigating Language in the Early Islamic World. Multilingualism and Language Change in the First Centuries of Islam	0
Re-evaluating the Chronology of the Iron Age Tumuli of Ankara	0
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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
:Impermanent Monuments, Lasting Legacies: The Dār al-Khilāfa of Samarra and Palace Building in Early Abbasid Iraq	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
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The Ribāṭ as Ṣūfī Lodge: The Historical Evolution of a Term in the Islamic Middle East and Inner Asia	0
What Did Ancient Egyptian Pictures Want?	0
:Pottery Making and Communities during the 5th Millennium BCE in Fars Province, Southwestern Iran	0
:The Rural Landscapes of Archaic Cyprus: An Archaeology of Environmental and Social Change	0
:Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World: From Constantinople to Baghdad, 500–1000 CE	0
The Price of Justice: Revenues Generated by Ottoman Courts of Law in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries	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
: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
:Selves Engraved on Stone: Seals and Identity in the Ancient Near East, ca. 1415–1050 bce	0
Playing with Persecution: Parallel Jewish and Christian Memories of Late Antiquity in Early Islamic Iraq	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
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
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
:Monumentality, Place-Making and Social Interaction on Late Bronze Age Cyprus	0
:Life at Court: Ideology and Audience in the Late Assyrian Palace	0
:The Practice of Canaanite Cult: The Middle and Late Bronze Ages	0
The Basilica of Betä Sämaʿtiʾ in its Aksūmite, Early Christian, and Late Antique Context	0
:Before and After Babel: Writing as Resistance in Ancient Near Eastern Empires	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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Identifying the “Hands” (and the “Ears”) of the Mesopotamian lilissu-kettledrum	0
Akhenaten and Nefertiti’s Morning Toilette in Karnak	0
Soundscapes, Portentous Calls, and Bird Symbolism in the Gilgameš Epic	0
:Arabic in Context. Celebrating 400 Years of Arabic at Leiden University	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
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
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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Xerxes I, an Heir of Assyria? The Daiva Inscription in Context	0
Erudite Savagery: Intertextuality in Ashurbanipal’s Account of the Siege of Babylon	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
The Evolving Definition of “Word” in Early Northwest Semitic Writing: From ‏דברים‎ to ‏תיבות‎	0
Petteia, Kubeia, and Grammata: Thoth’s Connection with Senet and Knucklebones in Ancient Egypt	0
Divinized Instruments and Divine Music: A Study in Occasional Deification	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
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
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
:An = Anum and Related Lists	0
The Date of the Arrival of the Judeans at Elephantine and the Foundation of Their Colony	0
Magical Obstetrics: Anubis, Bird Blood, and a Black Shrew	0
Early Geez Phonology as Reflected in ʔAbbā Garimā I	0
The Clay World of Çatalhöyük. By Chris Doherty. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2020. Pp. xv + 120 + 18 tables + 95 figures. £35.00 (paper).	0
:Geschichte und Geographie Westkleinasiens in der Hethiterzeit	0
:Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible: From Embodied Experience to Moral Metaphor	0
:Purifying a House from Blood: A Hittite Ritual for the Ancient Gods (CTH 446)	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 Garden of the Reasonable”: Religious Diversity Among Middle Eastern Physicians,ad1000–1500	0
:Sasanian and Islamic Settlement and Ceramics in Southern Iran (4th to 17th century AD). The Williamson Collection Project	0
Using the Syriac Documentary Parchments, Today and in Antiquity	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
:Suffering in Babylon: Ludlul bēl nēmiqi and the Scholars, Ancient and Modern	0
A Paleo-Arabic Inscription of a Companion of Muhammad?	0
:Slavery and Dependence in Ancient Egypt: Sources in Translation	0
Šurpu: The Missing Tablet	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 illus	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
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
The Migration of the Elephantine Yahwists under Amasis II	0
‘She Obeys Me’: Lexically Significant Names of Slaves in Egypt (c. 2100–332 bc)	0
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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
The Production of Salt in the Hittite Period and its Trade in Central and Northeastern Anatolia	0
The Graves of Tell Basmaya and New Insights into Kassite Burial Practices	0
:Tell Khaiber, A Fortified Centre of the First Sealand Dynasty	0

:Tell Abada: An Ubaid Village in Central Mesopotamia	0
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:Descendants of a Lesser God: Regional Power in Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt	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
:Everyday Cosmopolitanisms: Living the Silk Road in Medieval Armenia	0
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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
The Virgin Annunciate in the Meccan Qurʾan: Q. Maryam 19:19 in Context	0
Kings and their Gods: Representations of Urartian Royal Ideology and Religion in Sargon II’s Letter to the God Ashur	0
New Evidence for an Early Islamic Arabic Dialect in Eastern Arabia? The Qaṭrāyīth (“in Qatari”) Spoken in Beth Qaṭraye	0
Rebel’s Advocate: How Abū ʿUbayda Maʿmar b. al-Muthannā Came to be Labelled a Khārijite	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 Cruciform Seal and Mursili II’s Immediate Predecessors	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
Send Them to Me by This Little One: Child Letter-carriers in Coptic Texts from Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt	0
Mittani Palaeography. By Zenobia S. Homan. Cuneiform Monographs 48. Leiden: Brill, 2019. Pp. xvi + 396 + figures. 164€/$197 (cloth).	0
Existential Angst: Non-existential Use of ibašši in Neo-Assyrian	0
Books, Corruption, and an Emir’s Downfall: The Founding of the Maḥmūdīyah Library in Mamluk Cairo	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
The State of Economic History and Households in the Economy of Early 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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Islam: An Advanced Introduction. By Roberto Tottoli. London: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 136. $42.95 (paper), $160 (cloth).	0
A Study of the Deity Elkunirša in Light of an Amulet from Ancient Samʾal	0
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
:Çukuriçi Höyük 4: Household Economics in the Early Bronze Age Aegean	0
:The Divine/Demonic Seven and the Place of Demons in Mesopotamia	0
Ritual Instructions in the Series Lamaštu	0
Ashdod in the Assyrian Period: Territorial Extent and Political History	0