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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)
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A Synchronized Early Middle Bronze Age Chronology for Egypt, the Levant, and Mesopotamia7
Destined for Slaughter: Identifying Seasonal Breeding Patterns in Sheep and Goats in Early Babylonia3
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
Babylonian Hermeneutics and Heraclitus2
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
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 Migration of the Elephantine Yahwists under Amasis II1
The Production of Salt in the Hittite Period and its Trade in Central and Northeastern Anatolia1
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
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
Egyptology and Political Theology: An Examination of the Ethics of Scholarship1
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
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
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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
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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
Babylon between the Sealand, Syria, and the Zagros: Samsu-iluna’s last years0
Allah: God in the Qur’an. By Gabriel Said Reynolds. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. 344. $30 (cloth).0
Like a Runaway Slave: The Discourse of an Eighth-Century Muslim Ascetic0
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
:Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible: From Embodied Experience to Moral Metaphor0
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 Muslim Difference: Defining the Line between Believers and Unbelievers from Early Islam to the Present0
The Representation of Emotions and Time in Ancient Egyptian Smiting Scenes0
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
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
Qurʾanic Periphrases for the Sake of Rhyme and Rhythm and the Periphrastic Use of Kull0
The Otherworld (with)in This World: Imhet as a (Super)natural Conduit between Dimensions in Egyptian Sources0
Playing with Persecution: Parallel Jewish and Christian Memories of Late Antiquity in Early Islamic Iraq0
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
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
:Cuneiform Texts from the Folios of W.G. Lambert. Part Two0
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
The Evolving Definition of “Word” in Early Northwest Semitic Writing: From ‏דברים‎ to ‏תיבות‎0
“Syrians call you Astarte … Lycian peoples call you Leto”: Ethnic Relations and Circulating Legends in the Villages of Egypt0
The Clay World of Çatalhöyük. By Chris Doherty. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2020. Pp. xv + 120 + 18 tables + 95 figures. £35.00 (paper).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
:Excavations at the Palatial Complex: Kerkenes Final Reports 20
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
Al-Jūzjānī’s Approach to Hadith Criticism and His “Antagonism toward ʿAlī”: A Comparative Analysis0
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
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
The Language of Filiation in the Code of Hammurapi0
Exegeting Enoch: Re-inscribing a Mesopotamian Figure in the Yahwist Narrative0
“Isn’t she a Woman?”: The “Widow of Ephesus” in the Ottoman Empire0
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
:Purifying a House from Blood: A Hittite Ritual for the Ancient Gods (CTH 446)0
:Akhbār Khadīja bint Khuwaylid fī al-maṣādir al-islāmiyya: Abniyat al-sard wa-l-dhākira wa-l-tārīkh0
:An Ottoman Cosmography: Translation of Cihānnümā0
Islam: An Advanced Introduction. By Roberto Tottoli. London: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 136. $42.95 (paper), $160 (cloth).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
:Türöffner des Himmels. Prosopographische Studien zur thebanischen Hohepriesterschaft der Ptolemäerzeit0
:Life at Court: Ideology and Audience in the Late Assyrian Palace0
Symbolism in 13th-centurybcHittite Metallurgy: The Kastamonu-Kınık (Turkey) Metal Hoard, Again0
Kings and their Gods: Representations of Urartian Royal Ideology and Religion in Sargon II’s Letter to the God Ashur0
:Pottery Making and Communities during the 5th Millennium BCE in Fars Province, Southwestern Iran0
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
:Everything as One: A Linguistic View of The Egyptian Creator in the Pyramid Texts0
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
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
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 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
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 Price of Justice: Revenues Generated by Ottoman Courts of Law in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries0
“The Garden of the Reasonable”: Religious Diversity Among Middle Eastern Physicians,ad1000–15000
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
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Send Them to Me by This Little One: Child Letter-carriers in Coptic Texts from Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt0
:The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Qurʾān: The Problem of Tawātur and the Emergence of Shawādhdh0
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
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
Epigraphical Study of the Burial Chamber Belonging to Nakhtmin (TT 87): Materiality and Scribal Hands0
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
:Officials and Administration in the Hittite World0
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Solomon and The Petrified Birds on the Dome of the Rock0
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
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
:The Origins of Money in the Iron Age Mediterranean World0
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
:Monumentality, Place-Making and Social Interaction on Late Bronze Age Cyprus0
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
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
The Babylonian šumma immeru Omens: Transmission, Reception and Text Production. By Yoram Cohen. Münster: Zaphon, 2020. Pp. xxiv + 406. €98 (cloth).0
:Exemplars of Kingship: Art, Tradition, and the Legacy of the Akkadians0
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
:The Amorites and the Bronze Age Near East: The Making of a Regional Identity0
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The Date of the Arrival of the Judeans at Elephantine and the Foundation of Their Colony0
A Study of the Deity Elkunirša in Light of an Amulet from Ancient Samʾal0
Divinized Instruments and Divine Music: A Study in Occasional Deification0
Their Very Words? A Preliminary Evaluation of Reported Speech in the Qurʾan0
Early Geez Phonology as Reflected in ʔAbbā Garimā I0
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
“Towards the Mountain Range that Gave Birth to Me …”: A Reconstructed širgida Song of Ninurta from Old Babylonian Nippur (Ninurta J/L)0
Petteia, Kubeia, and Grammata: Thoth’s Connection with Senet and Knucklebones in Ancient Egypt0
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
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Oriental Institute Museum Notes No. 17: An Abydos Setting for a Stela of Osiris Sety I0
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
Magical Obstetrics: Anubis, Bird Blood, and a Black Shrew0
:Opposing the Imam: The Legacy of the Nawāṣib in Islamic Literature0
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
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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 Vineyard0
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
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
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
A Paleo-Arabic Inscription of a Companion of Muhammad?0
The Cruciform Seal and Mursili II’s Immediate Predecessors0
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Conversion to Islam: Competing Themes in Early Islamic Historiography. By Ayman S. Ibrahim. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xxi + 291. $99 (cloth).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
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
:Mesopotamia: Ancient Art and Architecture0
:Das Totenmahl in Syrien im 2. Jahrtausend v. Chr.: Eine Untersuchung zur Bedeutung, Symbolik und Tradition eines altorientalischen Konzepts in philologischer, archäologischer und religionsgeschich0
:Feuer und Stein: Gräber und Totenmonumente im eisenzeitlichen Nordsyrien und Südostanatolien in ihren regionalen Kontexten0
Patronage and Prestige in the Countryside: The case of the Church of Mār Domeṭ in medieval northern Mesopotamia0
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
Rumors, Sedition and Personal Relationships: The Parwānah’s Conspiracy and Mongol Rule in Seljuk Anatolia (ad 1255–1277)0
The Basilica of Betä Sämaʿtiʾ in its Aksūmite, Early Christian, and Late Antique Context0
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 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
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
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
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
New evidence regarding Emerald Production in Roman Egypt at Wadi Sikait (Eastern Desert)0
Handbook of Ancient Nubia. Edited by Dietrich Raue. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. Pp. xxii + 1111 + 250 illustrations. $320 (cloth).0
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
Akhenaten and Nefertiti’s Morning Toilette in Karnak0
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Books, Corruption, and an Emir’s Downfall: The Founding of the Maḥmūdīyah Library in Mamluk Cairo0
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
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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
:The “Haus am Hang” at Ḫattuša: A Late Hittite Scriptorium and Its Tablet Collection0
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
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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
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
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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
:Suffering in Babylon: Ludlul bēl nēmiqi and the Scholars, Ancient and Modern0
:Geschichte und Geographie Westkleinasiens in der Hethiterzeit0
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
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
The Marking of Poetry: A Rare Vocalization System from an Early Qurʾān Manuscript in Chicago, Paris, and Doha0
Using the Syriac Documentary Parchments, Today and in Antiquity0
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
Soundscapes, Portentous Calls, and Bird Symbolism in the Gilgameš Epic0
Mittani Palaeography. By Zenobia S. Homan. Cuneiform Monographs 48. Leiden: Brill, 2019. Pp. xvi + 396 + figures. 164€/$197 (cloth).0
:Die Zitadelle von Dūr-Katlimmu in mittel- und neuassyrischer Zeit. Teil 1: Text. Teil 2: Katalog. Teil 3: Kassette mit 57 Farbtafeln und Faltplänen0
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
The Bilingual Chiasmus: A Unique Rhetorical Device for “Knotting” Words in Sumerian-Akkadian Literature0
:Impermanent Monuments, Lasting Legacies: The Dār al-Khilāfa of Samarra and Palace Building in Early Abbasid Iraq0
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
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
The State of Economic History and Households in the Economy of Early Mesopotamia0
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:Selves Engraved on Stone: Seals and Identity in the Ancient Near East, ca. 1415–1050 bce0
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
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 Ancient City of Giddan/Eddana (Anqa, Iraq), the “Forgotten Twin” of Dura-Europos0
The Literary Dynamic of Loyalty and Betrayal in the Aramaic Ahiqar Narrative0
The Neo-Assyrian Empire in the Southwest. By Avraham Faust. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xii + 373. £90.00 (cloth).0
:The Rural Landscapes of Archaic Cyprus: An Archaeology of Environmental and Social Change0
:The Book of Travels0
:Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World: From Constantinople to Baghdad, 500–1000 CE0
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
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
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
Rebel’s Advocate: How Abū ʿUbayda Maʿmar b. al-Muthannā Came to be Labelled a Khārijite0
The Virgin Annunciate in the Meccan Qurʾan: Q. Maryam 19:19 in Context0
:Everyday Cosmopolitanisms: Living the Silk Road in Medieval Armenia0
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
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On an Incised Palette from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Date, Suggested Provenance, and Use Practices of Grinding Palettes with Engraved Animal Figures0
:Tell Abada: An Ubaid Village in Central Mesopotamia0
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
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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
Ea’s Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story. By Martin Worthington. The Ancient World. London: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 522. $160 (cloth).0
Xerxes I, an Heir of Assyria? The Daiva Inscription in Context0
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
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Ashdod in the Assyrian Period: Territorial Extent and Political History0
:Arabic in Context. Celebrating 400 Years of Arabic at Leiden University0
Gods and Humans in the Ancient Near East. By Tyson L. Putthoff. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii + 253. $99.99 (cloth).0
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
Erudite Savagery: Intertextuality in Ashurbanipal’s Account of the Siege of Babylon0
Reflexivity: The Cases of theNiphalandHithpael0
: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
Bergesgleich baute ich hoch: Untersuchungen zur Architektur, Funktion und Bedeutung neuassyrischer Befestigungsanlagen. By Alexander Sollee. Schriften zur vorderasiatischen Archäologie 17. Wies0
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