{"title":"Gods and Humans in the Ancient Near East. By Tyson L. Putthoff. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii + 253. $99.99 (cloth).","authors":"Spencer L. Allen","doi":"10.1086/718336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718336","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44345295","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":"Magical Obstetrics: Anubis, Bird Blood, and a Black Shrew","authors":"Andrea L. Winkler","doi":"10.1086/718783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718783","url":null,"abstract":"If not explained, magical writings can be obscure to a modern audience. Often, however, the reader of a grimoire is informed about the purpose of a specific incantation by an explanatory caption. This is a common feature in Demotic magical papyri and numerous Coptic and Greek works of a similar kind.1 One such case is the Demotic O.Stras.Dem. 1338,2 which is introduced by a heading clarifying the intent of the invocation of various deities mentioned in the text.3 Individual applications of spells, as can be found for example on","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":"81 1","pages":"53 - 70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46034378","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":"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).","authors":"C. Melchert","doi":"10.1086/718560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718560","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46081926","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":"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. $99.99 (cloth).","authors":"James F. Osborne","doi":"10.1086/718464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718464","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44152405","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":"Indirect reference intervals using an R pipeline.","authors":"Dustin R Bunch","doi":"10.1016/j.jmsacl.2022.02.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jmsacl.2022.02.004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Indirect reference intervals require robust statistical approaches to separate the pathological and healthy values. This can be achieved with a data pipeline created in R, a freely available statistical programming language.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A data pipeline was created to ingest, partition, normalize, remove outliers, and identify reference intervals for testosterone (Testo; n = 7,207) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST; n = 5,882) using data sets from NHANES.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The estimates for AST and Testo determined by this pipeline approximated current RIs. Care should be taken when using this pipeline as there are limitations that depend on the pathology of the analyte and the data set being used for RI estimation.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>R can be used to create a robust statistical reference interval pipeline.</p>","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":"70 1","pages":"22-30"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8889237/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83412593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Syrians call you Astarte … Lycian peoples call you Leto”: Ethnic Relations and Circulating Legends in the Villages of Egypt","authors":"P. Harland","doi":"10.1086/716245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/716245","url":null,"abstract":"The peoples referenced in the title of this paper—Syrians and Lycians—are among those that occupy the attention of one Isidoros, an inhabitant of an Egyptian village in the Lake district (Fayum) near the beginning of the first century bce. We know nothing about Isidoros beyond what he reveals in the four hymns for the goddess Renenutet or Hermouthis (in Greek transliteration) which he had inscribed on monumental slabs at the entrance to a temple in the village of Narmouthis (modern Medinet Madi).1 These inscriptions aimed at honoring a local goddess, remembering an ideal pharaoh who founded the temple (Amenemhet III), and bringing together local Egyptians and immigrants; altogether, they provide a fascinating glimpse into important dimensions of social and cultural life in this period.","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":"80 1","pages":"357 - 376"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49112354","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":"The Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics. Edited by Anousha Sedighi and Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxii + 573. $150 (cloth).","authors":"J. Perry","doi":"10.1086/716037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/716037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49342363","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":"Cuneiform in Canaan: The Next Generation. By Wayne Horowitz, Takayoshi Oshima, and Seth L. Sanders. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns, 2018. Second Edition. Pp. xii + 248 + 180 illustrations. $59.95 (cloth).","authors":"Jana Mynářová","doi":"10.1086/716057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/716057","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41732295","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":"Allah: God in the Qur’an. By Gabriel Said Reynolds. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. 344. $30 (cloth).","authors":"Adam Flowers","doi":"10.1086/715834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/715834","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47115821","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}