Journal of Near Eastern Studies

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The Bilingual Chiasmus: A Unique Rhetorical Device for “Knotting” Words in Sumerian-Akkadian Literature	14
:Türöffner des Himmels. Prosopographische Studien zur thebanischen Hohepriesterschaft der Ptolemäerzeit	5
Their Very Words? A Preliminary Evaluation of Reported Speech in the Qurʾan	4
:Ethics in the Qur’ān and the Tafsīr Tradition: From the Polynoia of Scripture to the Homonoia of Exegesis	4
Der Palast in Nuzi: Studien zur formalen Struktur des Palastgebäudes und den Funktionen der Palastinstitution. By Hannah Mönninghoff. Schriften zur vorderasiatischen Archäologie 18. Wiesbaden:	3
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. €	3
The Representation of Emotions and Time in Ancient Egyptian Smiting Scenes	2
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The Burden of Proof in Neo-Sumerian Law: A New Look at the Gutian Period in Codex Ur-Namma	2
:The Power of Images. The Poetics of Violence in Lamentations 2 and Ancient Near Eastern Art	1
:Love in Sufi Literature: Ibn ‘Ajiba’s Understanding of the Divine Word	1
:The Amorites: A Political History of Mesopotamia in the Early Second Millennium BCE	1
New Evidence for an Early Islamic Arabic Dialect in Eastern Arabia? The Qaṭrāyīth (“in Qatari”) Spoken in Beth Qaṭraye	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
:Excavations at the Palatial Complex: Kerkenes Final Reports 2	0
On the Meaning of Language in Genesis 11:1–9 and Its Babylonian Background	0
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The Migration of the Elephantine Yahwists under Amasis II	0
Šurpu: The Missing Tablet	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
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 Islamic-Byzantine Border in History: From the Rise of Islam to the End of the Crusades	0
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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
:Monumentality, Place-Making and Social Interaction on Late Bronze Age Cyprus	0

Xerxes I, an Heir of Assyria? The Daiva Inscription in Context	0
:The Bone and Ivory Objects from Gordion	0
Early Iron Age Settlement Patterns along the Lower Zab River	0
A Study of the Deity Elkunirša in Light of an Amulet from Ancient Samʾal	0
:Prisons in Ancient Mesopotamia. Confinement and Control until the First Fall of Babylon	0
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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
:An Ottoman Cosmography: Translation of Cihānnümā	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
:An = Anum and Related Lists	0
:The Practice of Canaanite Cult: The Middle and Late Bronze Ages	0
The Ancient City of Giddan/Eddana (Anqa, Iraq), the “Forgotten Twin” of Dura-Europos	0
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:Pottery Making and Communities during the 5th Millennium BCE in Fars Province, Southwestern Iran	0
Islam: An Advanced Introduction. By Roberto Tottoli. London: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 136. $42.95 (paper), $160 (cloth).	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
:Late Ottoman Gaza: An Eastern Mediterranean Hub in Transformation	0
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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
:Pre-Islamic Arabia: Societies, Politics, Cults and Identities during Late Antiquity	0
Divinized Instruments and Divine Music: A Study in Occasional Deification	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
Magical Obstetrics: Anubis, Bird Blood, and a Black Shrew	0
Life and Death in the First Clod Incantation of the “Ashur Dream Ritual Compendium”	0
:Female Religiosity in Central Asia. Sufi Leaders in the Persianate World	0
:The Archive of Thotsutmis, Son of Panouphis. Early Ptolemaic Ostraca from Deir El Bahari (O. Edgerton)	0
:The Shape of Stories: Narrative Structures in Cuneiform Literature	0
:The “Haus am Hang” at Ḫattuša: A Late Hittite Scriptorium and Its Tablet Collection	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
Humor as Pedagogy: Cases from Mesopotamia in the First Millennium bce	0
:Opposing the Imam: The Legacy of the Nawāṣib in Islamic Literature	0
A Case for Hebrew at Yeb: The “Vidranga Passage” and Judean Diglossia in Fifth Century Elephantine	0
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Soundscapes, Portentous Calls, and Bird Symbolism in the Gilgameš Epic	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 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
What Did Ancient Egyptian Pictures Want?	0
:Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World: From Constantinople to Baghdad, 500–1000 CE	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
“The Garden of the Reasonable”: Religious Diversity Among Middle Eastern Physicians,ad1000–1500	0
Sennacherib’s Throne-Room Reliefs: On Jerusalem and the Misplaced City of Ushu	0
Babylon between the Sealand, Syria, and the Zagros: Samsu-iluna’s last years	0
:Tell Abada: An Ubaid Village in Central Mesopotamia	0
The Price of Justice: Revenues Generated by Ottoman Courts of Law in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries	0
:Slavery and Dependence in Ancient Egypt: Sources in Translation	0
Material Culture of Magic: Animal Amulets and Objects in Egyptian Gynecological Spells	0
:Projecting a New Empire: Formats, Social Meaning, and Mediality of Arabic in the Umayyad and Early Abbasid Periods	0
Qurʾanic Periphrases for the Sake of Rhyme and Rhythm and the Periphrastic Use of Kull	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

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The Virgin Annunciate in the Meccan Qurʾan: Q. Maryam 19:19 in Context	0
:The Origins of Money in the Iron Age Mediterranean World	0
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Oriental Institute Museum Notes No. 17: An Abydos Setting for a Stela of Osiris Sety I	0
:Color and Meaning in the Art of Achaemenid Persia	0
:Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam	0
:The Muslim Difference: Defining the Line between Believers and Unbelievers from Early Islam to the Present	0
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:Everyday Cosmopolitanisms: Living the Silk Road in Medieval Armenia	0
Identifying the “Hands” (and the “Ears”) of the Mesopotamian lilissu-kettledrum	0
Petteia, Kubeia, and Grammata: Thoth’s Connection with Senet and Knucklebones in Ancient Egypt	0
Rebel’s Advocate: How Abū ʿUbayda Maʿmar b. al-Muthannā Came to be Labelled a Khārijite	0
:Exemplars of Kingship: Art, Tradition, and the Legacy of the Akkadians	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
:Before and After Babel: Writing as Resistance in Ancient Near Eastern Empires	0
Books, Corruption, and an Emir’s Downfall: The Founding of the Maḥmūdīyah Library in Mamluk Cairo	0
:Feuer und Stein: Gräber und Totenmonumente im eisenzeitlichen Nordsyrien und Südostanatolien in ihren regionalen Kontexten	0
The Phoenician Jar-Inscription at Kinet Höyük: A New Script for an Old Cult	0
Existential Angst: Non-existential Use of ibašši in Neo-Assyrian	0
:The Rural Landscapes of Archaic Cyprus: An Archaeology of Environmental and Social Change	0
:Cuneiform Texts from the Folios of W.G. Lambert. Part Two	0
Handbook of Ancient Nubia. Edited by Dietrich Raue. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. Pp. xxii + 1111 + 250 illustrations. $320 (cloth).	0
Playing with Persecution: Parallel Jewish and Christian Memories of Late Antiquity in Early Islamic Iraq	0
Erudite Savagery: Intertextuality in Ashurbanipal’s Account of the Siege of Babylon	0
:Sasanian and Islamic Settlement and Ceramics in Southern Iran (4th to 17th century AD). The Williamson Collection Project	0
Bergesgleich baute ich hoch: Untersuchungen zur Architektur, Funktion und Bedeutung neuassyrischer Befestigungsanlagen. By Alexander Sollee. Schriften zur vorderasiatischen Archäologie 17. Wies	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
Early Geez Phonology as Reflected in ʔAbbā Garimā I	0
Domestic, Ephemeral, and Creative: Institutions in the EB II Upper Euphrates Region	0
:Navigating Language in the Early Islamic World. Multilingualism and Language Change in the First Centuries of Islam	0
:Following the Coins from the Excavations at Khirbet Qumran (1951–1956) and Aïn Feshkha (1956–1958)	0
The Date of the Arrival of the Judeans at Elephantine and the Foundation of Their Colony	0
:Mesopotamia: Ancient Art and Architecture	0
:Equipment for Horses from the Period IVB Level (ca. 1000–800 BCE) at Hasanlu, Iran	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
:Everything as One: A Linguistic View of The Egyptian Creator in the Pyramid Texts	0
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:Çukuriçi Höyük 4: Household Economics in the Early Bronze Age Aegean	0
A Synchronized Early Middle Bronze Age Chronology for Egypt, the Levant, and Mesopotamia	0
:Purifying a House from Blood: A Hittite Ritual for the Ancient Gods (CTH 446)	0
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:Officials and Administration in the Hittite World	0
‘She Obeys Me’: Lexically Significant Names of Slaves in Egypt (c. 2100–332 bc)	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 Graves of Tell Basmaya and New Insights into Kassite Burial Practices	0
Philo of Byblos’ Version of the Storm God’s Combat Against the Sea	0
The Babylonian šumma immeru Omens: Transmission, Reception and Text Production. By Yoram Cohen. Münster: Zaphon, 2020. Pp. xxiv + 406. €98 (cloth).	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
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 Production of Salt in the Hittite Period and its Trade in Central and Northeastern Anatolia	0
:Descendants of a Lesser God: Regional Power in Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt	0
A Bronze Military Trumpet from the Tepecik Settlement at Patara	0
The Basilica of Betä Sämaʿtiʾ in its Aksūmite, Early Christian, and Late Antique Context	0
:Die Zitadelle von Dūr-Katlimmu in mittel- und neuassyrischer Zeit. Teil 1: Text. Teil 2: Katalog. Teil 3: Kassette mit 57 Farbtafeln und Faltplänen	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
The Ribāṭ as Ṣūfī Lodge: The Historical Evolution of a Term in the Islamic Middle East and Inner Asia	0
The Clay World of Çatalhöyük. By Chris Doherty. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2020. Pp. xv + 120 + 18 tables + 95 figures. £35.00 (paper).	0
:Life at Court: Ideology and Audience in the Late Assyrian Palace	0
The Otherworld (with)in This World: Imhet as a (Super)natural Conduit between Dimensions in Egyptian Sources	0
:The Royal Mortuary Cult Complex in the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari. Part I: The Chapel of Thutmose I	0
Kings and their Gods: Representations of Urartian Royal Ideology and Religion in Sargon II’s Letter to the God Ashur	0
Epigraphical Study of the Burial Chamber Belonging to Nakhtmin (TT 87): Materiality and Scribal Hands	0
:The Amorites and the Bronze Age Near East: The Making of a Regional Identity	0
Using the Syriac Documentary Parchments, Today and in Antiquity	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
The Cruciform Seal and Mursili II’s Immediate Predecessors	0
:Late Bronze Age Painted Pottery Traditions at the Margins of the Hittite State. Papers Presented at a Workshop Held at the 11th ICAANE (München 4 April 2018) and Additional Contributions	0
The Neo-Assyrian Empire in the Southwest. By Avraham Faust. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xii + 373. £90.00 (cloth).	0
:Arabic in Context. Celebrating 400 Years of Arabic at Leiden University	0
Al-Jūzjānī’s Approach to Hadith Criticism and His “Antagonism toward ʿAlī”: A Comparative Analysis	0
The Evolving Definition of “Word” in Early Northwest Semitic Writing: From ‏דברים‎ to ‏תיבות‎	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
:Geschichte und Geographie Westkleinasiens in der Hethiterzeit	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
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
DhimmīBishops in a Muslim Polity: Endurance and Adaptation of Syriac Episcopal Leadership in the Umayyad and Early Abbasid Periods	0
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A Paleo-Arabic Inscription of a Companion of Muhammad?	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
:The Divine/Demonic Seven and the Place of Demons in Mesopotamia	0
Unearthing Abraham’s Altar: The Cultic Dimensions ofdīn,islām, andḥanīfin the Qurʾan	0
The State of Economic History and Households in the Economy of Early Mesopotamia	0
:Enuma Elish: The Babylonian Epic of Creation	0
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:Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible: From Embodied Experience to Moral Metaphor	0
:Suffering in Babylon: Ludlul bēl nēmiqi and the Scholars, Ancient and Modern	0
Re-evaluating the Chronology of the Iron Age Tumuli of Ankara	0
:The Book of Travels	0
:Akhbār Khadīja bint Khuwaylid fī al-maṣādir al-islāmiyya: Abniyat al-sard wa-l-dhākira wa-l-tārīkh	0
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Rumors, Sedition and Personal Relationships: The Parwānah’s Conspiracy and Mongol Rule in Seljuk Anatolia (ad 1255–1277)	0
:The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Qurʾān: The Problem of Tawātur and the Emergence of Shawādhdh	0
In Search for the Ritual Origins of the “Seven Sacred Oils” in Ancient Egypt: New Evidence from the Tomb of Meru (TT 240)	0
Ritual Instructions in the Series Lamaštu	0
:Aspects of Kinship in Ancient Iran	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
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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 BCE	0
:Tell Khaiber, A Fortified Centre of the First Sealand Dynasty	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
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
:Le temple de Ptah à Karnak. I. Relevé épigraphique. II. Relevé photographique	0