An alternate (and old-fashioned) view of Neolithisation in Greece by Catherine Perles

“…Third, it rests in the need to explain the random, but strong parallels between the Near-Eastern and Greek Neolithic.…”
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Religion at Kuntillet ʿAjrud by Jeremy Smoak, William Schniedewind

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Towards configuring the neolithisation of Aegean Turkey by Çiler Çilingiroğlu, Canan Çakırlar

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Lurking Lions and Hidden Herds: Concealed Wisdom in the Hebrew Bible by Scott B. Noegel, Corinna E. Nichols

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Les ivoires « orientalisants » de la péninsule Ibérique : réflexions stylistiques by Hélène Le Meaux

“…By comparing ivories from the Iberian Peninsula and the Near East we can discern the different modes of interchange which grew up between the two bodies of art – i.e., direct loans from the Near-Eastern repertoire, adaptations resulting from the simplification or complexification of iconographic elements, or again the creation of typically Iberian composite images. …”
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Isabel Toral-Niehof, Al-Ḥīra, Eine arabische Kulturmetropole im spätantiken Kontext by Michael Bonner

“…Arabia existed, of course, throughout the late antique period (however defned), but according to this view, its destiny and historical meaning were, frst of all, for it to be remote from its imperial, bureaucratized, urbanized, and monotheistic neighbors; and second, for it to bring discontinuity and even rupture to Near Eastern history, precisely through the rise and spread of Islam.…”
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The transition to farming and the 'revolution' of symbols in the Balkans. From ornament to entoptic and external symbolic storage by Mihael Budja

“…Our basic premises are (1) that ceramic technology and the principles of fragmentation and accumulationwere not the exclusive domains of farmers and, (2) that the hunter-gatherers' symbolic structures and the process of transition to farmingwere not exclusive and competitive but rather correlative in maintaining control and power within society and over the frameworks of external interactions and exchange networks., but strong parallels between the Near-Eastern and Greek Neolithic.…”
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Rileggendo vecchi dati. Spunti sull'Orientalizzante tarquiniese by Lucio Giuseppe Perego

“…In fact, besides funerary tumuli, showing the power of the aristoi, the spread inland of Near-Eastern aegyptiaca and Greek (in particular Corinthian) objects show an opening to Mediterranean relationships. …”
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Confused Language as a Deliberate Literary Device in Biblical Hebrew Narrative by Gary A. Rendsburg

“… This article presents a paradigm example of confused language in an ancient Near Eastern literary text, the Egyptian tale of "The Shipwrecked Sailor." …”
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STEWARDS OF EMPIRE: HERITAGE AS COLONIALIST BOOTY by Pedro Paulo Abreu Funari, Tamima Orra Mourad

“…It can be defined as a tendency that stemmed out of the need to appropriate, protect, and guard; it nonetheless resulted in the abduction, deformation, and isolation of heritage from the living populations, as suggested by Latin American and Near Eastern cases. In this paper, we study how colonialism has historically shaped museum stewardship against distinct heritage backgrounds. …”
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Post-Eurocentric Poetics: New Approaches from Arabic, Turkish and Persian Literature by Helga Seeden

“…Bilal Orfali (Chair, Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages) and Hany Rashwan welcomed the audience and introduced the conference. …”
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Mesolithic skull cults? by Schulting, R

“…While long known as a feature of the Near Eastern Neolithic, there is growing evidence for the special treatment of the human head in Mesolithic Europe. …”

Ancestry-related distribution of Runs of homozygosity and functional variants in Qatari population by Massimo Mezzavilla, Massimiliano Cocca, Pierpaolo Maisano Delser, Ramin Badii, Fatemeh Abbaszadeh, Khalid Abdul Hadi, Girotto Giorgia, Paolo Gasparini

“…In particular, the presence of three different clusters, Cluster 1, Cluster 2 and Cluster 3 (with Near Eastern, South Asian and African ancestry, respectively), was detected with an additional fourth one (Cluster 4) with East Asian ancestry. …”
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Agricultural sustainability in the semi-arid Near East by F. Hole

“…In much of the region today, agricultural land use is not sustainable given existing technology and national priorities. The Near Eastern case is instructive because of the quality of information, the length of the record, and the pace of modern change.…”
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Late Neolithic/Early Chalcolithic period: white on red paint decorated pottery tradition at the Burdur–Antalya Region (Turkey) by Aslıhan Yurtsever Beyazıt

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Mesopotamian Synchronistic Chronography and the Book of Kings by Kristin Weingart

“…The Book of Kings uses a particular synchronistic framework to present the parallel histories of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah in 1 Kings 14–2 Kings 17. Some Ancient Near Eastern chronographic compositions (synchronistic king lists, the Neo-Babylonian chronicle, the so-called Synchronistic History) also record chronological relationships between ruler sequences in neighboring kingdoms. …”
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Representations of Light in Western Culture by Bina Nir

“…This understanding of light is a deep structure, originating in religion, that persists in secular culture: from ancient Near Eastern mythologies, to Plato’s parable of the cave, to the Judeo-Christian narrative and the Enlightenment and culminating in the role of light in New Age culture.…”
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Eternal Delight and Deliciousness: The Book of Jonah After Ten Years by Thomas M. Bolin

“…Thus God is portrayed, like many ancient Near Eastern potentates, as extending his rule over peoples and exacting tribute.…”
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Book Review- Csató, Éva Á., Gren-Eklund, G., Johanson, L. and Karakoç, B. (Eds). Turcologica Upsaliensia: An illustrated collection of essays. 2020. Brill. 288 pages. ISBN 97890044... by Hasan Mesut MERAL

“…The Oriental languages and cultures have long been on the research agenda of Western scholars and many works have been done on both near eastern and far eastern civilizations in order to define the linguistic and cultural landscape in these non-western regions of the world. …”
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Marine Gastrotricha of the Near East: 1. Fourteen new species of Macrodasyida and a redescription of Dactylopodola agadasys Hochberg, 2003 by William Hummon

“…The near eastern geographical region is almost devoid of reports of macrodasyidan gastrotrichs, the exceptions themselves being part of this study. …”
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