Search Results - "Journal of Near Eastern studies"

Metalworking at Megiddo during the Late Bronze and Iron Ages by Yahalom-Mack, Naama, Eliyahu-Behar, Adi, Martin, Mario A. S., Kleiman, Assaf, Shahack-Gross, Ruth, Homsher, Robert S., Gadot, Yuval, Finkelstein, Israel

“…Over the years, the excavations at Tel Megiddo have yielded numerous metal objects, as well as evidence of metallurgical activity. Here, Yahalom-Mack et al…”
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How To (Not) Be King: Negotiating the Limits of Power within the Assyrian Hierarchy by Zaia, Shana

“…Zaia seeks to show how high officials conceptualized and expressed their own role within the recognized political hierarchy and looking at the inscriptions…”
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Going for the Subarean Brand: The Import of Labor in Early Babylonia by Bartash, Vitali

“…Bartash evaluates the role of Subarean labor in palatial and temple households of Sargonic Babylonia, ca. 2350-2150 BC. Although a certain number of these…”
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The Role of Authors in the "Uruk List of Kings and Sages": Canonization and Cultural Contact by Helle, Sophus

“…The list of kings and sages includes a selection of the most famous authors of Babylonian literature. This is, in fact, surprising: given the otherwise…”
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The Worst Revolt of the Bisitun Crisis: A Chronological Reconstruction of the Egyptian Revolt under Petubastis IV by Wijnsma, Uzume Z.

“…Over the years, new and possibly relevant sources for the Egyptian revolt have been published. An updated discussion of the evidence is still lacking, however…”
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Omride Palatial Architecture as Symbol in Action: Between State Formation, Obliteration, and Heritage by Sergi, Omer, Gadot, Yuval

“…By the early 9th century BC, as the Omride dynasty rose to power, Israel emerged on the historical scene as a territorial entity in northern Canaan; it was the…”
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The Oil Omens from Hattuša: An Investigation of the History and Transmission of a Babylonian Divination Compendium by Anor, Netanel, Cohen, Yoram

“…Anor and Cohen offer a new edition of a tablet collecting oil omens which was found at Hattusa. The tablet consists of two fragments, KUB 37.198 and KUB 34.5,…”
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Inscribing Temple Space: The Ekron Dedication as Monumental Text by Smoak, Jeremy D.

“…Smoak argues that the monumentality of an inscription has less to do with its "readability" by an audience and more to do with conveying political and cultural…”
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Dry Climate in the Middle Bronze I and Its Impact on Settlement Patterns in the Levant and Beyond: New Pollen Evidence by Finkelstein, Israel, Langgut, Dafna

“…Recently studied fossil pollen records from the Sea of Galilee and the Ze'elim ravine located on the western shore of the Dead Sea reveal climatic fluctuations…”
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Bikni, Bīt-ṭābti, and uqnū: Searching for Appropriate Identifications for Toponyms and Terms Mentioned in Neo-Assyrian Texts by Alibaigi, Sajjad, Rezaei, Iraj

“…According to the arguments developed in this article, Alvand and Damavand Mountains are not credible options for the toponym known as Bikni in Assyrian texts…”
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Notes on Chronology in the Phrygian Highlands: Cultic Installations, Defenses, and Clamp Cuttings by Summers, Geoffrey D.

“…This paper is concerned with the relative dating of the Middle Iron Age (ca. 10th-6th centuries bc defenses, so-called step monuments, and other features in…”
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New Information about the ziqpu-Stars, the Sun, and Cubits Based on one New Tablet (BM 37373) and Some Previously Known Texts by Fincke, Jeanette C., Horowitz, Wayne

“…In the years 1952 and 1955, Johann Schaumberger published the group of cuneiform astronomical texts that are known to Assyriology as the ziqpu-star texts in a…”
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Berlin Papyrus P. 13447 and the Library of the Yehudite Colony at Elephantine by Mitchell, Christine

“…Berlin Papyrus P. 13447 was found along with a number of other papyri during the 1906-1908 German excavations at Elephantine. The papyrus was first published…”
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Contagion and Cognition: Bodily Experience and the Conceptualization of Pollution (ṭumʾah) in the Hebrew Bible by Feder, Yitzhaq

“…Abnormal genital discharges, corpses and creeping things--confronting these unpleasant realities in the Priestly purity regulations of the Hebrew Bible is too…”
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A Basmala-Inscribed Jug from Arsur's Mamluk Destruction of ad 1265: The Religious Manifestation of a Christian-Used Table Vessel? by Tal, Oren, Taxel, Itamar, Zeischka-Kenzler, Annette

“…The encounters of Crusaders and Muslims in Frankish Palestine, as well as the Crusader-Mamluk transition at the twilight of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in the…”
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Dhimma Agreements and Sanctuary Systems at Islamic Origins by Mirza, Sarah

“…In 1975, Ziauddin Ahmed and Ziauddin Ahmad noted that these documents attributed to the Prophet provide evidence for the extension of the same or similar legal…”
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The Evolution of Free Choice Indefinites in Hittite by Sideltsev, Andrei

“…Sideltsev deals with Hittite pronouns of the form kui- imma (kui-). He proposes to distinguish between two structures which are commonly collapsed into…”
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Karatepe-Arslantaş. Azatiwataya . By Martina Sicker-Akman, Eva-Maria Bossert, and Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert. Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Archäologische Forschungen 29. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2014. Pp. 176 + 51 plates + 3 maps. €102 (cloth) by Mazzoni, Stefania

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How to Get Credit and Avoid Foreclosure in Arrapḫe by von Dassow, Eva

“…Dascow explains how to get credit and avoid foreclosure in Arraphe. Real-estate adoption was a legal instrument that immunized transfer of property rights from…”
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Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States . By James C. Scott. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017. Pp. xvii + 312. $26.00 (cloth) by Richardson, Seth

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