Journal of Near Eastern Studies (Vol 46, April 1987, No. 2) by Biggs, Robert D. (editor) - 1987

University of Chicago Press, 1988. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Illustrated. Articles include: Urbanization and the Organization of Animal Production at Tell Jemmeh in the Middle Bronze Age Levant by Paula Wapnish and Brian Hesse; New Light on the Lunar Crescent Visibility Table of Ya'qub ibn Tariq by Jan P. Hogendijk; A Comparison of Arabic and Early Egyptian Contract Formularies, Part III: The Idiom of Satisfaction by Gladys Frantz-Murphy; A New Manuscript Join in the "Festival of Wood Offering (Temple Scroll XXIII) by Michael O. Wise; A Mathematical Approach to Certain Dynastic Spans in the Sumerian King List by Dwight D. Young; Book Reviews. pp81-157.

University of Chicago Press, 1985. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Articles include Turkish Mosque Orientation and the Secular Variation of the Magnetic Declination by Frank E. Barmore; A Comparison of the Arabic and Earlier Egyptian Contract Formularies, Part II: Terminology; Correspondences osiriennes entre les temples d'Opet et de Khonsou by Jean Claude Degardin; A propos de l'origine du nom de la Syrie by Christian Cannuyer; Hittite hashas by Charles Carter; The Significance of Aramaic 4<*n. Reviews. pp81-163.

University of Chicago Press, 1984. Paperback. Very Good. A few pencil marks in the books received section. Illustrated. Articles topics include Brinkman on Mesopotamia; Donner on early Arabic inscriptions from Al-Hanakiyya; Ritner on a Uterine amulet in the Oriental Institute Collection; Killean on the development of Western grammars of Arabic; Zittler on the small shrine of Enlil at Nippur; Pardee on three Ugaritic tablet joins; and Whiting on a copper coin of Al-Muzaffar II Mahmud of Hamuh. pp169-262.

University of Chicago Press, 1984. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Illustrated. Articles include "You Can't offer your sacrifice and Eat it too: A polemical poem from the Aramaic text in Demotic Script" by Steiner and Nims, "New Evidence for the History of Astrology" by Rochberg-Halton, "The Travels of the Ark: A Religio-Political Composition" by Ahlstrom, "A Marriage Deed from 'Wardunia of Baghdad'" by Golb, "Muhammad Iqbal and Ataturk's Reforms" by Rahman, and book reviews. pp89-168.

University of Chicago Press, 1988. Paperback. Good. Unmarked. Sun line at the bottom. Corner crease on cover. Illustrated. Articles include: The Agricultural Economy of an Old Kingdom Town in Egypt's West Delta: Insights from the Plant Remains by Marie-Francine Moens & Wilma Wetterstrom; Some Notes on Tahnik in Medieval Islam by Avner Gil 'Adi; The Lunar Date of Ramesses II by Lee W. Casperson; Athletic Contests in Hittite Religious Festivals by Charles Carter; book reviews. pp159-240

University of Chicago Press, 1987. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Illustrated. Articles include "Climatic Change and the Eleventh-Tenth Century Eclipse of Assyria and Bablonia" (Neumann and Parpola), "Proportional Guidelines in Ancient Near Eastern Art" (Azarpay), and "'Stative,' Predicative, Form, Pseudo-Verb" (Huehnergard). Book Reviews. pp161-244.

University of Chicago Press, 1985. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. A few "X's" in the books received section. B/W illustrations and a map. Articles include "Islamic Civilization and the Legend of Political Failure" by Christie Hess Andrew, "The Cult of Aserah / Elat at Sidon" by John Wilson Betlyon, "Mernaptah's Israel" by W. W. Ahlstrom and D. Edelman, and more. Book Reviews. 79p.

University of Chicago Press, 1988. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Illustrated. Articles include: Shah Wali Allah's Theory of the Subtle Spiritual Centers (Lata'if): A Sufi Model of Personhood and Self-Transformation by Marcia K. Hermansen; MLS HKRSYM in Phoenician Inscriptions from Cyprus, the QRSY in Arad, HKRSYM in Egypt, and BNY QYRS in the Bible by Yosel Garfinkel; A New Engraved Tridacna Shell from Kish by David S. Reese; The Historical Setting of the Uruk Prophecy by Jonathan A. Goldstein. Book Reviews. 80p.

University of Chicago Press, 1983. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Illustrated. Includes "Structuralist Interpretations of Pre-Islamic Poetry: Critique and New Directions" by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, "Omen Texts Concerning Lesser Known Parts of the Lungs" by Ivan Starr, "Wall Paintings from Dur Kurigalzu" by Yoko Tomabechi, "Parallels between the Gilgamesh Epic and Plato's Symposium" by George F. Held, and Book Reviews. pp85-165.

University of Chicago Press, 1984. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Illustrated. One hundred-first year. Includes The Lyric in the Renaissance: The Use of Ghazals in Persian and Turkish Masnavis by Robert Dankoff, Some Graffitti in the Reign of Hatshepsut by Edward F. Wente, and more.