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{"title":"Erudite Savagery: Intertextuality in Ashurbanipal’s Account of the Siege of Babylon","authors":"Eli Tadmor","doi":"10.1086/724083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724083","url":null,"abstract":"In 648 bce,1 a deadly civil war between two brothers—Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria (668–ca. 631) and Šamaš-šuma-ukīn, king of Babylonia (667–648)— was finally coming to an end.2 After a two-year siege, Ashurbanipal’s army conquered and sacked Babylon, the capital of his once-beloved sibling. The victorious Ashurbanipal did not have the satisfaction of capturing his “unfaithful brother” (aḫu lā kēnu)3 alive, and of executing him as slowly and horrifically as he doubtless would have wished.4 Yet Šamaš-šuma-ukīn did not","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":"82 1","pages":"43 - 58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45266684","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":":Life at Court: Ideology and Audience in the Late Assyrian Palace","authors":"","doi":"10.1086/723882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723882","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49155169","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":"Unearthing Abraham’s Altar: The Cultic Dimensions of dīn, islām, and ḥanīf in the Qurʾan","authors":"Mohsen Goudarzi","doi":"10.1086/723646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723646","url":null,"abstract":"77 Journal of Near Eastern Studies, volume 82, number 1, April 2023. © 2022 The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Published by The University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.1086/723646 The religious developments of Islam’s earliest decades have been subject to extensive research and vigorous debate in recent scholarship. What was the main thrust of the Prophet Muhammad’s preaching? What led the Prophet and his followers to form a distinct group apart from other communities of their milieu that are mentioned in the Qurʾan, namely, the mushrikūn (“pagans” or “polytheists”), Jews, and Christians? As scholars have looked to the Qurʾan to understand the religious developments of the Qurʾanic milieu, many have tended to locate the impulse behind these developments in the intellectual and theological realms of faith and conviction. For example, the Qurʾan’s emphasis on monotheism and the resulting polemic against the mushrikūn are often understood as pertaining primarily to belief and doctrine, not to matters of ritual and practice.1","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":"82 1","pages":"77 - 102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43415088","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":"Divinized Instruments and Divine Music: A Study in Occasional Deification","authors":"Michael B. Hundley","doi":"10.1086/723965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723965","url":null,"abstract":"* This article was first presented virtually in a joint session of Cultic Personnel in the Biblical World and Hebrew Scriptures and Cognate Literature at the annual meeting of the Society for Biblical Literature in San Antonio in 2021, focused on music in the cult; it benefited from the discussion that followed. I would like to think the anonymous JNES reviewers for their thorough and incisive comments. 1 By “anthropomorphic,” I refer not only to human-like form, but also to human-like agency, thought, emotion, behavior, and treatment (see Hundley, “Here a God” [2013]: 82–83; Yahweh Among the Gods [2022], 31–32; Pongratz-Leisten and Sonik, “Between Cognition and Culture” [2015], 37). However, as we will see, the boundary between animate and inanimate, anthropomorphic and non-anthropomorphic, is rather porous. While objects lack agency and animation on the surface, texts ascribe both to various objects. In addition, the form of a cult image said little about how people understood the deity it (re)presented. Regarding anthropomorphic and symbolic forms, see also Hundley, Gods in Dwellings [2013], 228–39, and Pongratz-Leisten and Sonik, “Between Cognition and Culture” (2015), 23–24; regarding a cult image as a form of presentation, and not merely representation, see Gumbrecht, Production of Presence (2004), 355; Pongratz-Leisten and Sonik, “Between Cognition and Culture” (2015), 10–12. Regarding the ing a static conception, texts adopted a context-specific approach to deities, even a context-specific approach to whether something was divine or not.2 This article presents a case study in the pragmatics and rhetoric of occasional deification by exploring the deification of musical instruments in Mesopotamia.3 It then turns to a preliminary investigation of the sparser data from Ugarit and the Hebrew Bible to see the relation between traditions and what light Mesopotamia may shed on its Levantine neighbors’ conceptualizations. In Mesopotamia, why were only certain instruments divine, and only in certain contexts? Some scholars argue for the deification of sacred objects by association or contagion,4 and musical instruments because","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":"82 1","pages":"119 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47217927","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":"Epigraphical Study of the Burial Chamber Belonging to Nakhtmin (TT 87): Materiality and Scribal Hands","authors":"Lucía Elena Díaz-Iglesias Llanos, D. Méndez-Rodriguez","doi":"10.1086/724031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724031","url":null,"abstract":"The epigraphical study of the inscribed walls in the Theban burial chamber commissioned by Nakht­ min (TT 87), undertaken between 2020 and 2022, has established the steps of the decorative process of the chamber and identified three scribal hands. The chaîne opératoire behind the decoration was elucida­ ted by the cooperation of epigraphists and restorers through the careful observation of all the physical marks left on the surfaces both in situ (using normal and raking lights, as well as magnifying glasses) and with high resolution photographs. The identification of the hands is based on the analysis of an array of features related to the mise en page, the morphology and technology of signs, and scribal practices. This research, undertaken from the perspective of material philology, sheds light on New Kingdom craftsmen and scribes, considering both their collective work and in­ dividual traits.","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":"82 1","pages":"1 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48116305","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":":Das Totenmahl in Syrien im 2. Jahrtausend v. Chr.: Eine Untersuchung zur Bedeutung, Symbolik und Tradition eines altorientalischen Konzepts in philologischer, archäologischer und religionsgeschichtlicher Perspektive am Beispiel von Mari, Qaṭna und Ugarit","authors":"","doi":"10.1086/723774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723774","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48380556","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":":Arabic in Context. Celebrating 400 Years of Arabic at Leiden University","authors":"L. Kogan","doi":"10.1086/723833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723833","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41555720","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":":Pottery Making and Communities during the 5th Millennium BCE in Fars Province, Southwestern Iran","authors":"A. Alizadeh","doi":"10.1086/723791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723791","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44791552","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":":Tell Abada: An Ubaid Village in Central Mesopotamia","authors":"Samuel Harris","doi":"10.1086/723845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723845","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48811571","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":":Mesopotamia: Ancient Art and Architecture","authors":"","doi":"10.1086/723844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723844","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44045071","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}