{"title":"Türöffner des Himmels. Prosopographische Studien zur thebanischen Hohepriesterschaft der Ptolemäerzeit. By Ralph Birk. Ägyptologische Abhandlungen 76. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2020. Pp. xi + 568 + 51 plates. €168 (cloth).","authors":"G. Vittmann","doi":"10.1086/721450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721450","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47788280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Handbook of Ancient Nubia. Edited by Dietrich Raue. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. Pp. xxii + 1111 + 250 illustrations. $320 (cloth).","authors":"Kathryn E. Howley","doi":"10.1086/721352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721352","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47089580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"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 York: New York University Press, 2021. Pp. 300. $30 (cloth).","authors":"J. Van Steenbergen","doi":"10.1086/721382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721382","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41461347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
233 Introduction Genealogies are intentional, reflective (and reflexive) (mis)representations of an individual’s history.1 They operate by objectifying traditional histories, including mythico-historical narratives, which legitimize one’s identity both within a family unit and within society.2 While they can be presented as objective truths, genealogies are not static traditions determined purely by biological realities. They can be renegotiated by members of a lineage (as well as by those who intrude upon the
{"title":"The Cruciform Seal and Mursili II’s Immediate Predecessors","authors":"D. Campbell","doi":"10.1086/721605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721605","url":null,"abstract":"233 Introduction Genealogies are intentional, reflective (and reflexive) (mis)representations of an individual’s history.1 They operate by objectifying traditional histories, including mythico-historical narratives, which legitimize one’s identity both within a family unit and within society.2 While they can be presented as objective truths, genealogies are not static traditions determined purely by biological realities. They can be renegotiated by members of a lineage (as well as by those who intrude upon the","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47525922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study deals with salt production in Hittite Anatolia from the 15th to the 13th centuries bc. It investigates, mainly through the epigraphic sources available to us, the major extraction, production, and trade sites of salt during the Late Bronze Age in central and north-eastern Anatolia. If we exclude the sea, a source external to our geographical horizon, Turkey is a country with especially abundant salt beds present in almost every province, at least in small quantities.1 Little attention over the years appears to have been paid to this basic raw natural resource in the context of the Hittite economy, and so we shall investigate locales where salt production may have furnished the Hittite state with substantial surpluses.2
{"title":"The Production of Salt in the Hittite Period and its Trade in Central and Northeastern Anatolia","authors":"A. Carnevale, G. Torri","doi":"10.1086/721420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721420","url":null,"abstract":"This study deals with salt production in Hittite Anatolia from the 15th to the 13th centuries bc. It investigates, mainly through the epigraphic sources available to us, the major extraction, production, and trade sites of salt during the Late Bronze Age in central and north-eastern Anatolia. If we exclude the sea, a source external to our geographical horizon, Turkey is a country with especially abundant salt beds present in almost every province, at least in small quantities.1 Little attention over the years appears to have been paid to this basic raw natural resource in the context of the Hittite economy, and so we shall investigate locales where salt production may have furnished the Hittite state with substantial surpluses.2","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43508767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Der Palast in Nuzi: Studien zur formalen Struktur des Palastgebäudes und den Funktionen der Palastinstitution. By Hannah Mönninghoff. Schriften zur vorderasiatischen Archäologie 18. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2020. Pp. xvii + 479. €178 (cloth).","authors":"Ivana Puljiz","doi":"10.1086/721449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721449","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49290864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia: Miniaturization and Cultural Hybridity. By Stephanie Langin-Hooper. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xi + 320 + 12 black and white illustrations + 109 color illustrations + 1 map. $99.99 (cloth).","authors":"L. Çakmak","doi":"10.1086/721489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721489","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47876930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conversion to Islam: Competing Themes in Early Islamic Historiography. By Ayman S. Ibrahim. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xxi + 291. $99 (cloth).","authors":"Ilkka Lindstedt","doi":"10.1086/721381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721381","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42477344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The intriguing textual history of Q. Maryam 19:19 remains neglected in modern scholarship. This study offers an analysis of this textual history in light of new insights from the codicology of early Qurʾan manuscripts. Further, it puts forward suggestions for how one might interpret the verse and its rival readings in light of its textual history and motifs associated with the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary in the homiletic literature of Syriac Christianity in Near Eastern Late Antiquity. In Q. Maryam 19:19, a spirit (rūḥ) sent by God announces to Mary the birth of her child Jesus by declaring, “I am but a messenger of your Lord [sent] so that I may give you a pure son” (innamā ʾana rasūlu rabbiki li-ʾahaba laki ghulāman zakiyyan). This verse boasts a fascinating textual history that has somehow hitherto largely escaped the attention of modern scholarship; however, it occupied the attention of premodern scholars considerably. The early philologist al-Farrāʾ (d. 207 ah/822 ad, Kūfah) provides one of our earliest comments on the curious wording of the verse; he observes that, at first blush, the statement, “so that I may give you (li-ʾahaba laki) a pure son,” appears to imply that the spiritual messenger impregnates Mary—i.e., that he himself gives Mary the child rather than God. But al-Farrāʾ rejects this interpretation and explains that, “the giving [of the boy] is from God, though [the spirit] Gabriel speaks to her as though he himself is the giver.” In other words, the spiritual messenger said what he said, but he did not do what he said. Noting that such ambiguous phrasing is common in the Qurʾan, al-Farrāʾ offers us a simple, if not entirely satisfying, solution to the peculiar wording of the annunciation to Mary.1 Besides this solution,
{"title":"The Virgin Annunciate in the Meccan Qurʾan: Q. Maryam 19:19 in Context","authors":"S. Anthony","doi":"10.1086/721353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721353","url":null,"abstract":"The intriguing textual history of Q. Maryam 19:19 remains neglected in modern scholarship. This study offers an analysis of this textual history in light of new insights from the codicology of early Qurʾan manuscripts. Further, it puts forward suggestions for how one might interpret the verse and its rival readings in light of its textual history and motifs associated with the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary in the homiletic literature of Syriac Christianity in Near Eastern Late Antiquity. In Q. Maryam 19:19, a spirit (rūḥ) sent by God announces to Mary the birth of her child Jesus by declaring, “I am but a messenger of your Lord [sent] so that I may give you a pure son” (innamā ʾana rasūlu rabbiki li-ʾahaba laki ghulāman zakiyyan). This verse boasts a fascinating textual history that has somehow hitherto largely escaped the attention of modern scholarship; however, it occupied the attention of premodern scholars considerably. The early philologist al-Farrāʾ (d. 207 ah/822 ad, Kūfah) provides one of our earliest comments on the curious wording of the verse; he observes that, at first blush, the statement, “so that I may give you (li-ʾahaba laki) a pure son,” appears to imply that the spiritual messenger impregnates Mary—i.e., that he himself gives Mary the child rather than God. But al-Farrāʾ rejects this interpretation and explains that, “the giving [of the boy] is from God, though [the spirit] Gabriel speaks to her as though he himself is the giver.” In other words, the spiritual messenger said what he said, but he did not do what he said. Noting that such ambiguous phrasing is common in the Qurʾan, al-Farrāʾ offers us a simple, if not entirely satisfying, solution to the peculiar wording of the annunciation to Mary.1 Besides this solution,","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42351356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
317 Introduction A reconstructed single column imgida tablet in the University Museum in Philadelphia furnishes the partial recovery of another širgida composition of Ninurta that features extensive self-praise of the deity. The preserved text appears to furnish a short version of Enlil’s union with Ninḫursaĝa leading to the flourishing of plant growth in the mountains beyond the borders of the Mesopotamian alluvium. This is invoked as background to Ninurta’s own exploits in the mountains.
{"title":"“Towards the Mountain Range that Gave Birth to Me …”: A Reconstructed širgida Song of Ninurta from Old Babylonian Nippur (Ninurta J/L)","authors":"J. Peterson","doi":"10.1086/721441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721441","url":null,"abstract":"317 Introduction A reconstructed single column imgida tablet in the University Museum in Philadelphia furnishes the partial recovery of another širgida composition of Ninurta that features extensive self-praise of the deity. The preserved text appears to furnish a short version of Enlil’s union with Ninḫursaĝa leading to the flourishing of plant growth in the mountains beyond the borders of the Mesopotamian alluvium. This is invoked as background to Ninurta’s own exploits in the mountains.","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41772063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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