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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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The Bilingual Chiasmus: A Unique Rhetorical Device for “Knotting” Words in Sumerian-Akkadian Literature17
Their Very Words? A Preliminary Evaluation of Reported Speech in the Qurʾan10
:Türöffner des Himmels. Prosopographische Studien zur thebanischen Hohepriesterschaft der Ptolemäerzeit10
:Ethics in the Qur’ān and the Tafsīr Tradition: From the Polynoia of Scripture to the Homonoia of Exegesis5
The Representation of Emotions and Time in Ancient Egyptian Smiting Scenes4
Der Palast in Nuzi: Studien zur formalen Struktur des Palastgebäudes und den Funktionen der Palastinstitution. By Hannah Mönninghoff. Schriften zur vorderasiatischen Archäologie 18. Wiesbaden: 4
The Burden of Proof in Neo-Sumerian Law: A New Look at the Gutian Period in Codex Ur-Namma2
: The Principles of Religion by Rabban Daniel Ibn al-Ḥaṭṭāb: A 13th-Century Synopsis of Syriac Orthodox Belief. Critical Edition, Translation and Commentary2
: Taming the Messiah: The Formation of an Ottoman Political Public Sphere, 1600–17002
:The Amorites: A Political History of Mesopotamia in the Early Second Millennium BCE1
Qurʾanic Periphrases for the Sake of Rhyme and Rhythm and the Periphrastic Use of Kull1
:The Power of Images. The Poetics of Violence in Lamentations 2 and Ancient Near Eastern Art1
:Love in Sufi Literature: Ibn ‘Ajiba’s Understanding of the Divine Word1
:Excavations at the Palatial Complex: Kerkenes Final Reports 21
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:Die Zitadelle von Dūr-Katlimmu in mittel- und neuassyrischer Zeit. Teil 1: Text. Teil 2: Katalog. Teil 3: Kassette mit 57 Farbtafeln und Faltplänen1
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).1
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
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The Cruciform Seal and Mursili II’s Immediate Predecessors0
A Bronze Military Trumpet from the Tepecik Settlement at Patara0
A Study of the Deity Elkunirša in Light of an Amulet from Ancient Samʾal0
:The Islamic-Byzantine Border in History: From the Rise of Islam to the End of the Crusades0
Al-Jūzjānī’s Approach to Hadith Criticism and His “Antagonism toward ʿAlī”: A Comparative Analysis0
:Late Ottoman Gaza: An Eastern Mediterranean Hub in Transformation0
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 Royal Mortuary Cult Complex in the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari. Part I: The Chapel of Thutmose I0
: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
Kings and their Gods: Representations of Urartian Royal Ideology and Religion in Sargon II’s Letter to the God Ashur0
Stamped Tokens with Cuneiform Inscriptions from Bahrain: New Light on Kingship and the Gods in Early 2 nd Millennium bc0
Bergesgleich baute ich hoch: Untersuchungen zur Architektur, Funktion und Bedeutung neuassyrischer Befestigungsanlagen. By Alexander Sollee. Schriften zur vorderasiatischen Archäologie 17. Wies0
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
Handbook of Ancient Nubia. Edited by Dietrich Raue. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. Pp. xxii + 1111 + 250 illustrations. $320 (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
Unearthing Abraham’s Altar: The Cultic Dimensions ofdīn,islām, andḥanīfin the Qurʾan0
: Origins of the Just War: Military Ethics and Culture in the Ancient Near East0
:Aspects of Kinship in Ancient Iran0
:Pottery Making and Communities during the 5th Millennium BCE in Fars Province, Southwestern Iran0
:Female Religiosity in Central Asia. Sufi Leaders in the Persianate World0
:The Amorites and the Bronze Age Near East: The Making of a Regional Identity0
:The “Haus am Hang” at Ḫattuša: A Late Hittite Scriptorium and Its Tablet Collection0
:Color and Meaning in the Art of Achaemenid Persia0
:Suffering in Babylon: Ludlul bēl nēmiqi and the Scholars, Ancient and Modern0
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:The Practice of Canaanite Cult: The Middle and Late Bronze Ages0
:Sasanian and Islamic Settlement and Ceramics in Southern Iran (4th to 17th century AD). The Williamson Collection Project0
: T-Stems in Soqotri: A Contribution to Semitic Detransitivising Derivation0
: Jews and the Qur’an0
Queering Mamluk Cairo: Resilience and Erudition in Ibn Dāniyāl’s Personalized Erotic Narrative0
The Phoenician Jar-Inscription at Kinet Höyük: A New Script for an Old Cult0
Grapes and Wine in pre-Roman Anatolia: Evidence of Large-Scale Viticulture from Southern Cappadocia, the Land of the Storm-God of the Vineyard0
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Divinized Instruments and Divine Music: A Study in Occasional Deification0
Islam: An Advanced Introduction. By Roberto Tottoli. London: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 136. $42.95 (paper), $160 (cloth).0
:Opposing the Imam: The Legacy of the Nawāṣib in Islamic Literature0
: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 Archive of Thotsutmis, Son of Panouphis. Early Ptolemaic Ostraca from Deir El Bahari (O. Edgerton)0
:Purifying a House from Blood: A Hittite Ritual for the Ancient Gods (CTH 446)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
Ritual Instructions in the Series Lamaštu0
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:Tell Khaiber, A Fortified Centre of the First Sealand Dynasty0
The Ancient City of Giddan/Eddana (Anqa, Iraq), the “Forgotten Twin” of Dura-Europos0
Copy-Paste in the Theban Necropolis: Textual and Iconographic Parallels between Rekhmire’s jnw -scene and Hatshepsut’s P0
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The Basilica of Betä Sämaʿtiʾ in its Aksūmite, Early Christian, and Late Antique Context0
: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
On the Meaning of Language in Genesis 11:1–9 and Its Babylonian Background0
: In Plain Sight: Muslims in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem0
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Sennacherib’s Throne-Room Reliefs: On Jerusalem and the Misplaced City of Ushu0
:Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam0
:Impermanent Monuments, Lasting Legacies: The Dār al-Khilāfa of Samarra and Palace Building in Early Abbasid Iraq0
The Ribāṭ as Ṣūfī Lodge: The Historical Evolution of a Term in the Islamic Middle East and Inner Asia0
Books, Corruption, and an Emir’s Downfall: The Founding of the Maḥmūdīyah Library in Mamluk Cairo0
Šurpu: The Missing Tablet0
Petteia, Kubeia, and Grammata: Thoth’s Connection with Senet and Knucklebones in Ancient Egypt0
:Life at Court: Ideology and Audience in the Late Assyrian Palace0
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:Monumentality, Place-Making and Social Interaction on Late Bronze Age Cyprus0
:Mesopotamia: Ancient Art and Architecture0
:The Bone and Ivory Objects from Gordion0
:Feuer und Stein: Gräber und Totenmonumente im eisenzeitlichen Nordsyrien und Südostanatolien in ihren regionalen Kontexten0
DhimmīBishops in a Muslim Polity: Endurance and Adaptation of Syriac Episcopal Leadership in the Umayyad and Early Abbasid Periods0
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The Clay World of Çatalhöyük. By Chris Doherty. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2020. Pp. xv + 120 + 18 tables + 95 figures. £35.00 (paper).0
:An Ottoman Cosmography: Translation of Cihānnümā0
Rumors, Sedition and Personal Relationships: The Parwānah’s Conspiracy and Mongol Rule in Seljuk Anatolia (ad 1255–1277)0
:The Shape of Stories: Narrative Structures in Cuneiform Literature0
Domestic, Ephemeral, and Creative: Institutions in the EB II Upper Euphrates Region0
: History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate: Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature0
Life and Death in the First Clod Incantation of the “Ashur Dream Ritual Compendium”0
:Following the Coins from the Excavations at Khirbet Qumran (1951–1956) and Aïn Feshkha (1956–1958)0
:Prisons in Ancient Mesopotamia. Confinement and Control until the First Fall of Babylon0
Ibn Ḥajar and the Narration of the Judiciary: Historiography and Justice in the Inbāʾ al-ghumr0
: Jerusalem Through the Ages: From Its Beginnings to the Crusades0
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
Babylon between the Sealand, Syria, and the Zagros: Samsu-iluna’s last years0
Xerxes I, an Heir of Assyria? The Daiva Inscription in Context0
:Akhbār Khadīja bint Khuwaylid fī al-maṣādir al-islāmiyya: Abniyat al-sard wa-l-dhākira wa-l-tārīkh0
: Qur’ān Translation as a Modern Phenomenon0
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The Graves of Tell Basmaya and New Insights into Kassite Burial Practices0
Poetry in Progress: Drafts from Muḥibbī’s (Süleymān I) Poems0
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Lost and Found: Toponymic Survival between the Late Roman and Ottoman Golan0
:The Book of Travels0
Early Geez Phonology as Reflected in ʔAbbā Garimā I0
:Tell Abada: An Ubaid Village in Central Mesopotamia0
:The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Qurʾān: The Problem of Tawātur and the Emergence of Shawādhdh0
:Pre-Islamic Arabia: Societies, Politics, Cults and Identities during Late Antiquity0
: Visualizing Egypt: European Travel, Book Publishing, and the Commercialization of the Middle East in the Nineteenth Century0
:Everything as One: A Linguistic View of The Egyptian Creator in the Pyramid Texts0
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:Projecting a New Empire: Formats, Social Meaning, and Mediality of Arabic in the Umayyad and Early Abbasid Periods0
The Evolving Definition of “Word” in Early Northwest Semitic Writing: From ‏דברים‎ to ‏תיבות‎0
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:Slavery and Dependence in Ancient Egypt: Sources in Translation0
:The Origins of Money in the Iron Age Mediterranean World0
On Researching and Teaching Mesopotamian Law0
What Did Ancient Egyptian Pictures Want?0
The Migration of the Elephantine Yahwists under Amasis II0
Identifying the “Hands” (and the “Ears”) of the Mesopotamian lilissu-kettledrum0
Material Culture of Magic: Animal Amulets and Objects in Egyptian Gynecological Spells0
Epigraphical Study of the Burial Chamber Belonging to Nakhtmin (TT 87): Materiality and Scribal Hands0
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
Philo of Byblos’ Version of the Storm God’s Combat Against the Sea0
Conversion to Islam: Competing Themes in Early Islamic Historiography. By Ayman S. Ibrahim. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xxi + 291. $99 (cloth).0
:Officials and Administration in the Hittite World0
Humor as Pedagogy: Cases from Mesopotamia in the First Millennium bce0
:The Rural Landscapes of Archaic Cyprus: An Archaeology of Environmental and Social Change0
:Arabic in Context. Celebrating 400 Years of Arabic at Leiden University0
A Case for Hebrew at Yeb: The “Vidranga Passage” and Judean Diglossia in Fifth Century Elephantine0
:Everyday Cosmopolitanisms: Living the Silk Road in Medieval Armenia0
:Geschichte und Geographie Westkleinasiens in der Hethiterzeit0
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
:Çukuriçi Höyük 4: Household Economics in the Early Bronze Age Aegean0
:Exemplars of Kingship: Art, Tradition, and the Legacy of the Akkadians0
The Late 3 rd and Early 2 nd Millennium bc Temp0
:Before and After Babel: Writing as Resistance in Ancient Near Eastern Empires0
A Paleo-Arabic Inscription of a Companion of Muhammad?0
:The Muslim Difference: Defining the Line between Believers and Unbelievers from Early Islam to the Present0
:Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible: From Embodied Experience to Moral Metaphor0
In Search for the Ritual Origins of the “Seven Sacred Oils” in Ancient Egypt: New Evidence from the Tomb of Meru (TT 240)0
:Navigating Language in the Early Islamic World. Multilingualism and Language Change in the First Centuries of Islam0
:An = Anum and Related Lists0
The Neo-Assyrian Empire in the Southwest. By Avraham Faust. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xii + 373. £90.00 (cloth).0
:Equipment for Horses from the Period IVB Level (ca. 1000–800 BCE) at Hasanlu, Iran0
Existential Angst: Non-existential Use of ibašši in Neo-Assyrian0
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
: The Early Nizārī Ismailis and Their Neighbouring Powers: Politics in the Caspian Provinces0
The Otherworld (with)in This World: Imhet as a (Super)natural Conduit between Dimensions in Egyptian Sources0
Erudite Savagery: Intertextuality in Ashurbanipal’s Account of the Siege of Babylon0
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The Production of Salt in the Hittite Period and its Trade in Central and Northeastern Anatolia0
Playing with Persecution: Parallel Jewish and Christian Memories of Late Antiquity in Early Islamic Iraq0
‘She Obeys Me’: Lexically Significant Names of Slaves in Egypt (c. 2100–332 bc)0
:Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World: From Constantinople to Baghdad, 500–1000 CE0
:Selves Engraved on Stone: Seals and Identity in the Ancient Near East, ca. 1415–1050 bce0
:Enuma Elish: The Babylonian Epic of Creation0
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 Divine/Demonic Seven and the Place of Demons in Mesopotamia0
: Arabic Textual Sources for the Crusades0
“Towards the Mountain Range that Gave Birth to Me …”: A Reconstructed širgida Song of Ninurta from Old Babylonian Nippur (Ninurta J/L)0
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Using the Syriac Documentary Parchments, Today and in Antiquity0
Re-evaluating the Chronology of the Iron Age Tumuli of Ankara0
:Le temple de Ptah à Karnak. I. Relevé épigraphique. II. Relevé photographique0
:Cuneiform Texts from the Folios of W.G. Lambert. Part Two0
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The State of Economic History and Households in the Economy of Early Mesopotamia0
:Descendants of a Lesser God: Regional Power in Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt0
Early Iron Age Settlement Patterns along the Lower Zab River0
The Virgin Annunciate in the Meccan Qurʾan: Q. Maryam 19:19 in Context0
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