Journal of Near Eastern Studies

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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The Bilingual Chiasmus: A Unique Rhetorical Device for “Knotting” Words in Sumerian-Akkadian Literature14
:Türöffner des Himmels. Prosopographische Studien zur thebanischen Hohepriesterschaft der Ptolemäerzeit5
:Ethics in the Qur’ān and the Tafsīr Tradition: From the Polynoia of Scripture to the Homonoia of Exegesis4
Their Very Words? A Preliminary Evaluation of Reported Speech in the Qurʾan4
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
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The Burden of Proof in Neo-Sumerian Law: A New Look at the Gutian Period in Codex Ur-Namma2
The Representation of Emotions and Time in Ancient Egyptian Smiting Scenes2
:Love in Sufi Literature: Ibn ‘Ajiba’s Understanding of the Divine Word1
:The Amorites: A Political History of Mesopotamia in the Early Second Millennium BCE1
:The Power of Images. The Poetics of Violence in Lamentations 2 and Ancient Near Eastern Art1
:Slavery and Dependence in Ancient Egypt: Sources in Translation0
Gods and Humans in the Ancient Near East. By Tyson L. Putthoff. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii + 253. $99.99 (cloth).0
Sennacherib’s Throne-Room Reliefs: On Jerusalem and the Misplaced City of Ushu0
The Graves of Tell Basmaya and New Insights into Kassite Burial Practices0
On the Meaning of Language in Genesis 11:1–9 and Its Babylonian Background0
‘She Obeys Me’: Lexically Significant Names of Slaves in Egypt (c. 2100–332 bc)0
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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
Material Culture of Magic: Animal Amulets and Objects in Egyptian Gynecological Spells0
The Production of Salt in the Hittite Period and its Trade in Central and Northeastern Anatolia0
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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
:Die Zitadelle von Dūr-Katlimmu in mittel- und neuassyrischer Zeit. Teil 1: Text. Teil 2: Katalog. Teil 3: Kassette mit 57 Farbtafeln und Faltplänen0
The Virgin Annunciate in the Meccan Qurʾan: Q. Maryam 19:19 in Context0
Oriental Institute Museum Notes No. 17: An Abydos Setting for a Stela of Osiris Sety I0
The Basilica of Betä Sämaʿtiʾ in its Aksūmite, Early Christian, and Late Antique Context0
:Color and Meaning in the Art of Achaemenid Persia0
The Clay World of Çatalhöyük. By Chris Doherty. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2020. Pp. xv + 120 + 18 tables + 95 figures. £35.00 (paper).0
:Everyday Cosmopolitanisms: Living the Silk Road in Medieval Armenia0
:The Muslim Difference: Defining the Line between Believers and Unbelievers from Early Islam to the Present0
Kings and their Gods: Representations of Urartian Royal Ideology and Religion in Sargon II’s Letter to the God Ashur0
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:Before and After Babel: Writing as Resistance in Ancient Near Eastern Empires0
Rebel’s Advocate: How Abū ʿUbayda Maʿmar b. al-Muthannā Came to be Labelled a Khārijite0
The Cruciform Seal and Mursili II’s Immediate Predecessors0
:Exemplars of Kingship: Art, Tradition, and the Legacy of the Akkadians0
Epigraphical Study of the Burial Chamber Belonging to Nakhtmin (TT 87): Materiality and Scribal Hands0
Al-Jūzjānī’s Approach to Hadith Criticism and His “Antagonism toward ʿAlī”: A Comparative Analysis0
The Phoenician Jar-Inscription at Kinet Höyük: A New Script for an Old Cult0
Conversion to Islam: Competing Themes in Early Islamic Historiography. By Ayman S. Ibrahim. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xxi + 291. $99 (cloth).0
Existential Angst: Non-existential Use of ibašši in Neo-Assyrian0
: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 Contributions0
DhimmīBishops in a Muslim Polity: Endurance and Adaptation of Syriac Episcopal Leadership in the Umayyad and Early Abbasid Periods0
Playing with Persecution: Parallel Jewish and Christian Memories of Late Antiquity in Early Islamic Iraq0
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Erudite Savagery: Intertextuality in Ashurbanipal’s Account of the Siege of Babylon0
:Geschichte und Geographie Westkleinasiens in der Hethiterzeit0
Unearthing Abraham’s Altar: The Cultic Dimensions ofdīn,islām, andḥanīfin the Qurʾan0
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 State of Economic History and Households in the Economy of Early Mesopotamia0
Early Geez Phonology as Reflected in ʔAbbā Garimā I0
A Paleo-Arabic Inscription of a Companion of Muhammad?0
:Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible: From Embodied Experience to Moral Metaphor0
The Date of the Arrival of the Judeans at Elephantine and the Foundation of Their Colony0
:Suffering in Babylon: Ludlul bēl nēmiqi and the Scholars, Ancient and Modern0
:Mesopotamia: Ancient Art and Architecture0
Re-evaluating the Chronology of the Iron Age Tumuli of Ankara0
:Akhbār Khadīja bint Khuwaylid fī al-maṣādir al-islāmiyya: Abniyat al-sard wa-l-dhākira wa-l-tārīkh0
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Rumors, Sedition and Personal Relationships: The Parwānah’s Conspiracy and Mongol Rule in Seljuk Anatolia (ad 1255–1277)0
Philo of Byblos’ Version of the Storm God’s Combat Against the Sea0
:Aspects of Kinship in Ancient Iran0
:Officials and Administration in the Hittite World0
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
Ritual Instructions in the Series Lamaštu0
:Descendants of a Lesser God: Regional Power in Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt0
:Das Totenmahl in Syrien im 2. Jahrtausend v. Chr.: Eine Untersuchung zur Bedeutung, Symbolik und Tradition eines altorientalischen Konzepts in philologischer, archäologischer und religionsgeschich0
The Babylonian šumma immeru Omens: Transmission, Reception and Text Production. By Yoram Cohen. Münster: Zaphon, 2020. Pp. xxiv + 406. €98 (cloth).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. Pp0
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
:Tell Khaiber, A Fortified Centre of the First Sealand Dynasty0
The Ribāṭ as Ṣūfī Lodge: The Historical Evolution of a Term in the Islamic Middle East and Inner Asia0
:Excavations at the Palatial Complex: Kerkenes Final Reports 20
A Bronze Military Trumpet from the Tepecik Settlement at Patara0
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:Selves Engraved on Stone: Seals and Identity in the Ancient Near East, ca. 1415–1050 bce0
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
Grapes and Wine in pre-Roman Anatolia: Evidence of Large-Scale Viticulture from Southern Cappadocia, the Land of the Storm-God of the Vineyard0
:The Royal Mortuary Cult Complex in the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari. Part I: The Chapel of Thutmose I0
:Life at Court: Ideology and Audience in the Late Assyrian Palace0
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 Otherworld (with)in This World: Imhet as a (Super)natural Conduit between Dimensions in Egyptian Sources0
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
:The Amorites and the Bronze Age Near East: The Making of a Regional Identity0
Early Iron Age Settlement Patterns along the Lower Zab River0
Using the Syriac Documentary Parchments, Today and in Antiquity0
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 Evolving Definition of “Word” in Early Northwest Semitic Writing: From ‏דברים‎ to ‏תיבות‎0
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
The Neo-Assyrian Empire in the Southwest. By Avraham Faust. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xii + 373. £90.00 (cloth).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
:Arabic in Context. Celebrating 400 Years of Arabic at Leiden University0
A Study of the Deity Elkunirša in Light of an Amulet from Ancient Samʾal0
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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
Islam: An Advanced Introduction. By Roberto Tottoli. London: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 136. $42.95 (paper), $160 (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. B0
:An = Anum and Related Lists0
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
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
:Pre-Islamic Arabia: Societies, Politics, Cults and Identities during Late Antiquity0
:The Divine/Demonic Seven and the Place of Demons in Mesopotamia0
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
:Enuma Elish: The Babylonian Epic of Creation0
Life and Death in the First Clod Incantation of the “Ashur Dream Ritual Compendium”0
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:Female Religiosity in Central Asia. Sufi Leaders in the Persianate World0
:The “Haus am Hang” at Ḫattuša: A Late Hittite Scriptorium and Its Tablet Collection0
:The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Qurʾān: The Problem of Tawātur and the Emergence of Shawādhdh0
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
:The Book of Travels0
Humor as Pedagogy: Cases from Mesopotamia in the First Millennium bce0
A Case for Hebrew at Yeb: The “Vidranga Passage” and Judean Diglossia in Fifth Century Elephantine0
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In Search for the Ritual Origins of the “Seven Sacred Oils” in Ancient Egypt: New Evidence from the Tomb of Meru (TT 240)0
Soundscapes, Portentous Calls, and Bird Symbolism in the Gilgameš Epic0
:Le temple de Ptah à Karnak. I. Relevé épigraphique. II. Relevé photographique0
:Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World: From Constantinople to Baghdad, 500–1000 CE0
: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
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
What Did Ancient Egyptian Pictures Want?0
The Migration of the Elephantine Yahwists under Amasis II0
:Tell Abada: An Ubaid Village in Central Mesopotamia0
New Evidence for an Early Islamic Arabic Dialect in Eastern Arabia? The Qaṭrāyīth (“in Qatari”) Spoken in Beth Qaṭraye0
The Price of Justice: Revenues Generated by Ottoman Courts of Law in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries0
:Impermanent Monuments, Lasting Legacies: The Dār al-Khilāfa of Samarra and Palace Building in Early Abbasid Iraq0
Babylon between the Sealand, Syria, and the Zagros: Samsu-iluna’s last years0
Qurʾanic Periphrases for the Sake of Rhyme and Rhythm and the Periphrastic Use of Kull0
Šurpu: The Missing Tablet0
:The Islamic-Byzantine Border in History: From the Rise of Islam to the End of the Crusades0
:Projecting a New Empire: Formats, Social Meaning, and Mediality of Arabic in the Umayyad and Early Abbasid Periods0
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:The Bone and Ivory Objects from Gordion0
:Monumentality, Place-Making and Social Interaction on Late Bronze Age Cyprus0
:The Origins of Money in the Iron Age Mediterranean World0
Xerxes I, an Heir of Assyria? The Daiva Inscription in Context0
:An Ottoman Cosmography: Translation of Cihānnümā0
:Prisons in Ancient Mesopotamia. Confinement and Control until the First Fall of Babylon0
Identifying the “Hands” (and the “Ears”) of the Mesopotamian lilissu-kettledrum0
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:Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam0
:Pottery Making and Communities during the 5th Millennium BCE in Fars Province, Southwestern Iran0
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
:The Practice of Canaanite Cult: The Middle and Late Bronze Ages0
Books, Corruption, and an Emir’s Downfall: The Founding of the Maḥmūdīyah Library in Mamluk Cairo0
The Ancient City of Giddan/Eddana (Anqa, Iraq), the “Forgotten Twin” of Dura-Europos0
Petteia, Kubeia, and Grammata: Thoth’s Connection with Senet and Knucklebones in Ancient Egypt0
:The Rural Landscapes of Archaic Cyprus: An Archaeology of Environmental and Social Change0
:Late Ottoman Gaza: An Eastern Mediterranean Hub in Transformation0
:Cuneiform Texts from the Folios of W.G. Lambert. Part Two0
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:Feuer und Stein: Gräber und Totenmonumente im eisenzeitlichen Nordsyrien und Südostanatolien in ihren regionalen Kontexten0
:Sasanian and Islamic Settlement and Ceramics in Southern Iran (4th to 17th century AD). The Williamson Collection Project0
Divinized Instruments and Divine Music: A Study in Occasional Deification0
Bergesgleich baute ich hoch: Untersuchungen zur Architektur, Funktion und Bedeutung neuassyrischer Befestigungsanlagen. By Alexander Sollee. Schriften zur vorderasiatischen Archäologie 17. Wies0
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
Handbook of Ancient Nubia. Edited by Dietrich Raue. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. Pp. xxii + 1111 + 250 illustrations. $320 (cloth).0
Domestic, Ephemeral, and Creative: Institutions in the EB II Upper Euphrates Region0
:The Archive of Thotsutmis, Son of Panouphis. Early Ptolemaic Ostraca from Deir El Bahari (O. Edgerton)0
:Navigating Language in the Early Islamic World. Multilingualism and Language Change in the First Centuries of Islam0
:The Shape of Stories: Narrative Structures in Cuneiform Literature0
:Following the Coins from the Excavations at Khirbet Qumran (1951–1956) and Aïn Feshkha (1956–1958)0
:Equipment for Horses from the Period IVB Level (ca. 1000–800 BCE) at Hasanlu, Iran0
“Towards the Mountain Range that Gave Birth to Me …”: A Reconstructed širgida Song of Ninurta from Old Babylonian Nippur (Ninurta J/L)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
:Opposing the Imam: The Legacy of the Nawāṣib in Islamic Literature0
:Everything as One: A Linguistic View of The Egyptian Creator in the Pyramid Texts0
“The Garden of the Reasonable”: Religious Diversity Among Middle Eastern Physicians,ad1000–15000
A Synchronized Early Middle Bronze Age Chronology for Egypt, the Levant, and Mesopotamia0
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
:Purifying a House from Blood: A Hittite Ritual for the Ancient Gods (CTH 446)0
:Çukuriçi Höyük 4: Household Economics in the Early Bronze Age Aegean0
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