List of Articles

North Arabia

Nabatea

• Nabataean echoes in al-Ḥarrah: New evidence in light of recent field work
• PETRA REVISITED: A REVIEW OF A SEMITIC CULT COMPLEX
• Two New Nabataean Inscriptions from Wadi Musa, with Discussion of Gaia and the Marzeah
• WAS DIONYSOS, THE WINE GOD, VENERATED BY THE NABATAEANS
• Human or Centipede? Egyptian Influence on the Nabataean Culture
• Nabataean Dushara (Dusares) - an overlooked cuirassed god
• The Nabataean`s ports on the Rea Sea
• Nabataean Jewellery and Accessories
• The Basileion of Isis and the religious art of nabataean Petra
• Nabataean Practices for Tombs Protection
• Modern "Nabataean" military parade as today performed near the ancient dam of Petra
• The Nabataean 'Caesar' inscription from Khirbat az-Zuna
• Piecing Together the Religion of the Nabataeans
• NABATAEAN FERTILITY MYTH, PLACE, TIME, RITUALS AND ACTORS BASED ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
• A Nabatean Incantation Text
• Nabataeans or Ituraeans in Mount Lebanon? About the Aramaic inscription of Yanouḥ
• Kamkam the Nabataean Priestess: Priesthood and Society in Ancient Arabia
• A Nabataean Bronze Lamp Dedicated to Baalshamin
• The many faces of Dushara – A Critical Review of the Evidence
• The Betyls of Petra
• THE ‘LORD OF THE STONEMASONS’: PART I. THE ‘SWORD DEITY’ AT PETRA
• Cybele, Atargatis, or Allāt? A Surprising Tomb Artifact from Petra’s North Ridge
• New dated inscriptions (Nabataean and pre-Islamic Arabic) from a site near al-Jawf, ancient Dūmah, Saudi Arabia
• A new Nabataean funerary inscription from Dhıban, with a brief account on Dhıban during the Nabataean period
• North Arabian deities and the deities of Petra: an approach to the origins of the Nabataeans
• Revolt of the Nabataean Damasī: in the Light of New Epigraphic Material Evidence
• The Temple of Obodas: Excavations at Oboda in July 1989
• Personal names in the Nabataean realm. A review article
• Nabataean Fertility Myth, Place, Time, Rituals and Actors Based on Archaeological Evidence
• Everyday Life of the Nabataeans in Ancient Petra
• North Arabian deities and the deities of Petra: an approach to the origins of the Nabataeans?
• Were the Women of Petra More Important Than the Men?
• The Nabataean Legal System: Traditional Customs or Written Codes التشريع النبطي: أَعراف متداولة أم قوانين مكتوبة
• The religious landscape of North-west Arabia as reflected in the Nabataean, Nabataeo-Arabic, and pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions
• WOMAN IN THE NABATAEAN SOCIETY
• ­­­A Framed View: The Chronology and Syncretic Architecture of Nabataean Monuments
• Athenodorus of Tarsus and Nabataea: The Date and Circumstances of His Visit to Petra
• Grave Goods and Nabatean Identity: Mampsis and Qasrawet
• The Nabataean Army
• Beyond Petra: Nabataean Cultic and Mortuary Practices and the Cultural Heritage of the Negev and Edom.
• Nabataean echoes in al-Ḥarrah: New evidence in light of recent field work
• A Nabatean Sanctuary at Jebel Moneijah, Southern Sinai
• Nabataeans in Southern Sinai
• ANICONIC EXPRESSION OF WORSHIP PRACTICES IN THE ARCHITECTURAL DETAILS OF THE NABATAEAN COLUMN CAPITAL
• Nabatean, Greek and Thamudic Inscriptions from the Wadi Haggag
• The Nabateans in the Early Hellenistic Period : The Testimony of Posidippus of Pella
• The Veneration Place of Isis at Wadi as-Siyyagh, Petra: New Research
• Letter from Jordan. Beyond Petra.
• Light and Shadows over Petra: Astronomy and Landscape in Nabataean Lands

Tayma'

• The Language of the Taymanitic Inscriptions and its Classification
• The Aramaic pantheon of Tayma’
• THE STELE OF TEIMA IN ARABIA: A WELCOME OF THE GODS
• Catalogue of the inscriptions discovered in the Saudi-German excavations at Taymāʾ
• A religious building complex in the ancient settlement of Tayma (North-West Arabia) during the Nabataean period: changes and transformations

Palmyra

• The Glyptotek presents The Road to Palmyra, the largest collection of ancient Palmyrene tomb sculptures outside of Syria
• The gods of Palmyra
• Gods and temples of Palmyra
• The iconography of caravan trade in Palmyra and the Roman Near East
• The Arabic Words in Palmyrene Inscriptions
• Representing and Naming the Gods. Iconography and Nomenclature of the Goddess Allat in Palmyra and Hatra
• Divine symbolism on the tesserae from Palmyra: Considerations about the so-called “symbol of Bel” or “signe de la pluie”
• ’Arṣu and ‘Azizu: A Study of the West Semitic "Dioscuri" and the Cods of Dawn and Dusk
• The Exaltation of Nabû: A revision of the relief depicting the battle against Tiamat from the temple of Bel in Palmyra
• Relief of Allat seated between two lions

Dedan

• The divine names at Dadan: a philological approach
• North Arabic Dedanite Script with East-Syriac Reading
• Dedan - Khuraibah: Early Ancient Kingdom and Trading Oasis on the Incense Route

Makkah

• The Ka`ba: Aspects of its Ritual Functions
• The Origins of the Muslim Descriptions of the Jāhilī Meccan Sanctuary
• How Did the Quranic Pagans Make a Living?
• Glimpses into the Pre-Islamic Archaeological History of Blessed Makkah & Arabia
• Meccan Gods, Jesus' Divinity: An Analysis of Q 43 Surat al-Zukhruf
• The Religion of the Qur'ānic Pagans: God and the Lesser Deities
• Arabian Monotheism before Islam: Some Reflections on the Pagans of the Qurʾan
• Tithes for the God and the Origins of the Cult at Mecca
• Muḥammad and the Golden Bough: Reconstructing Arabian Myth

Madyan

• Shrine of Hathor (Timna) - Madain Project (en)
• The Archaeology of Cult of Ancient Israel’s Southern Neighbors and the Midianite-Kenite Hypothesis
• Who were the Kenites?

Safa

• Safaitic Prayers, Curses, Grief and More From Wadi Salhub – North-Eastern Jordan.
• A few notes on the alleged occurrence of the Group name ‘Ghassān’ in a Safaitic inscription
• The Seven Stars, Allāt from ʿmn and Dusares from Rqm: A new Safaitic astronomical text
• The month ʾdr in Safaitic and the status of spirantization in "Arabian" Aramaic
• الماء في النقوش العربية الشمالية القديمة (الصفاوية): دراسة تحليلة لنقشين صفاويين جديدين
• الحياة الاجتماعية عند "الصفائيين والثموديين" كما صورتها كتاباتهم
• Ḥamāsah " Verses from Northeastern Jordan: A New Safaitic Poetic Text from Marabb al-Shurafāʾ, with further remarks on the ʿĒn ʿAvdat Inscription and KRS 2453
• Al-Jallad. 2016. An ancient Arabian zodiac. The constellations in the Safaitic inscriptions, Part II
• ʿArab, ʾAʿrāb, and Arabic in Ancient North Arabia: the first attestation of (ʾ)ʿrb as a group name in Safaitic
• The Nabataeans against the Ḥwlt – once again. An edition of new Safaitic inscriptions from the Jordanian Ḥarrah desert

Hisma

• تحليل سبعة نقوش عربية شمالية "ثمودية" من غدير الملاح، الحصن، وادي السحمي، معان
• A woman’s Hismaic inscription from the Wadi Ramm desert

Other

• Al-Jallad. 2021. On the origins of the god Ruḍaw and some remarks on the pre-Islamic North Arabian pantheon
• The “God of Ġsn” in an Ancient North Arabian inscription from the Ḥarra region – Northeastern Jordan.
• Religion in Northern Hejaz
• The Gods of Ammon, Moab and Edom in an Ancient North Arabian inscription from Jordan
• The Tell el-Maskhuta Bowls and the 'Kingdom' of Qedar in the Persian Period
• Ammon, Moab, and Edom: Gods and Kingdoms East of the Jordan
• New Discoveries at Sela, the Mountain Stronghold of Edom
• Religious Practices and Beliefs in Wadi Mousa between the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
• The Esarhaddon Prism
• Temples and Cult Places in Iron Age Transjordan
• MEDUSA IN NABATAEAN, HATRAN AND PALMYRENECULTURES
• Arabs in Syria: Demography and Epigraphy
• The Coins of the Itureans
• Who Are the "Attendants of Helios"?
• Echoes of a Thirsty Owl: Death and Afterlife in Pre-Islamic Arabic Poetry
• DISCOVERY OF HELLENSTIC TEMPLE AT UMM QEIS SITE GADARA IN NORTHERN JORDAN
• Cult and the rise of desert pastoralism: a case study from the Negev
• Goddesses, dancing girls or cheerleaders? Perceptions of the divine and the female form in the rock art of pre-Islamic North Arabia
• The Sābians of Harrān
• About Sabian Ritual and Angelology
• دراسة لنقوش ثمودية غير منشورة من جبل فَرْدَة الشَّمُوس في منطقة حائل
• The oral and the written in the religions of ancient North Arabia
• Two North-Arabian Inscriptions From the Temple of Lât Wadi Iram
• Traditional Music or Religious Ritual? Ancient Rock Art Illumined by Bedouin Custom
• The Evil Eye and Cultural Beliefs among the Bedouin Tribes of the Negev, Middle East
• A Desert Revolution – Transformations in Northwestern Arabia and the Arid Southern Levant in the Late 2nd Millennium BCE
• A preliminary investigation of an Ancient North Arabian invocation from the Madaba region of central Jordan.
• Between the Cults of Syria and Arabia:Traces of Pagan Religion at Umm al-Jimal
• North Arabian Bedouin's Conception of the Beyond
• Bedouin Religious Practices in Sinai and the Negev
• The 'Queens of the Arabs' During the Neo-Assyrian Period

South Arabia

• Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature
• A Himyarite diplomatic mission to the Sasaniancourt of Bahram II depicted at Bishapur
• The Art of Himyar and the Mountain Kingdoms of Yemen
• South Arabia, Religions in Pre-Islamic
• Curse formulae in South Arabian inscriptions and some of their Semitic parallels
• Religions in Pre-Islamic South Arabia
• 2012. Evidence from a new inscription regarding the goddess 't-(t)rm and some remarks on the gender of deities in South Arabia
• A New Sabaean Inscription: The Goddess Athrat (Athīrat), the Mother of God ‘Athtar المعبودة أثرت (أثيرة) أم المعبود عثتر في ضوء نقش سبئي جديد
• The pilgrimage of a Sabaean woman
• 2011. The Sabaic inscription A–20–216: a new Sabaean-Seleucid synchronism
• المخلافي. عبد السلام. 2021. "The Hymn of Qāniya (Contemporary Rereading)ترنيمة قانية قراءة جديدة" آداب الحديدة. العدد الثامن. 145-210
• The Art of Ancient Mesopotamia and South Arabia
• Seasonal offerings among the Minaeans: The case of ancient Yathil
• The historical development of Paganism in Najrān, during the pre-and e arly Islamic era (524 -641) AD
• Sculpture from Arabia Felix. The Hellenistic Period
• Before Ḥimyar. Epigraphic Evidence for the Kingdoms of South Arabia
• The Arabian Iron Age funerary stelae and the issue of cross-cultural contacts
• The Minaeans beyond Ma‘īn
• Inscriptions from museums in the region of Dhamār : Qatabanians in Baynūn and the goddess Athirat (ʾṯrtn)
• Un panthéon de l'Arabie du Sud en images. Le temple I d'as-Sawdâ'. A South Arabian pantheon expressed in images. Temple I of as-Sawdâ' Yemen

East Arabia

• Languages and scripts at the Arabian Gulf in the Hellenistic period: The epigraphic evidence from Mleiha (Sharjah, U.A.E)
• Snake, copper and water in south-eastern Arabian religion during the Iron Age: the Bithnah and Masāfi evidence
• Potts 1998 - Identities in the East Arabian region (with assistance from S. Blau). Mediterranean Archaeology 11: 27–38.
• An Inscribed Hasaitic Bronze Plaque
• Traditional Arabian Watercraft and the Ark of the Gilgamesh Epic: Interpretations and Realizations
• Early Religion in Ancient Arabia
• Snake cults in Iron Age south eastern Arabia. A consideration on autochthonous developments and possible connections with other Middle Eastern traditions
• Pastoral nomadism in third millennium BC Eastern Arabia: A View from Al-Zebah in Central Oman
• النظام الأمومي بين النقوش الحسائية (الثاجية) والنقوش النبطية
• Hiyya Biyya, a popular religious ritual of Eastern Arabia with pre-Islamic roots
• Insularity and Religious Life: The Case of Hellenistic Ikaros/Failaka Island

Pan Arabia

• Was Arabian Idol Worship Declining on the Eve of Islam?
• Mysteries and Mysticism in the Arabian Desert
• Sacred Images of Metaphysical World – Perspective of Prehistoric Religion in Arabia
• An Arabian Trinity
• Religion in Arabia among Pastoral and Agrarian Civilizations From the Bronze Age through Islam
• ʿAbd al-Asad and the Question of a Lion-God in the pre-Islamic Tradition: An Onomastic Study
• The Semitic Goddess of Fate, Fortuna-Tyche
• Rain-Giver, Bone-Breaker,Score-Settler Allāh in Pre-Quranic Poetry
• The Solubba: Nonpastoral Nomads in Arabia
• Models, Portraits, and Signs of Fate in Ancient Arabian Tradition
• Rehabilitating the Spirituality of Pre-Islamic Arabia: On the Importance of the Kahin, the Jinn, and the Tribal Ancestral Cult
• Arab Kings, Arab Tribes, Arab historical memory
• WINE DRINKING AND WINE PROHIBITION IN ARABIA BEFORE ISLAM
• THE ORIGINS OF MUSLIMS PRAYER
• Arabic Wine Deities
• On the relations between Bilād al-Shām and Yemen in the pre-Islamic period حول العلاقات ما بين بلاد الشام واليمن قبل الاسلام
• Syrian Goddess, Arabian God: Addressing Gods through Ethnics
• The peoples beyond the Arabian frontier in Late Antiquity : recent epigraphic discoveries and latest advances
• النقوش الشعرية الصخرية في المملكة العربية السعودية وقيمتها الأدبية
• THE CONCEPT OF ALLAH AS THE HIGHEST GOD IN PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA
• Language of Ritual Purity in the Qurʾān and Old South Arabian
• Acquaintance with the Mystery of Heavens in Ancient Arabia
• Arabian Monotheism before Islam: Some Reflections on the Pagans of the Qurʾan
• The ArabsʾVisions of the Upper Realm
• Camels in the Rock Art of Arabia
• Intersections of Material and Literary History in Religion and Ritual of Ancient Arabia through Islam
• Infidel or Paganus? The Polysemy of kafara in the Quran
• Hishām Ibn al-Kalbī’s Book of Idols: A Historical Evaluation
• The material evidence of the mythology of the Arabian Peninsula before Islam

Mesopotamia

• Mesopotamian astrology: an introduction to Babylonian and Assyrian celestial divination
• Ancient Mesopotamian Transgender and Non-Binary Identities
• The Descent of Ishtar
• Divine Cults in the Sacred Precinct of Girsu
• Goddesses in Context: On Divine Powers, Roles, Relationships and Gender in Mesopotamian Textual and Visual Sources
• Enki and the Theology of Eridu
• Counter-texts, Commentaries, and Adaptations: Politically Motivated Responses to the Babylonian Epic of Creation in Mesopotamia, the Biblical World, and Elsewhere

Canaan

• YHWH, The Canaanite god of metallurgy?
• A Reassessment of Asherah: With Further Considerations of the Goddess
• The Religion of Idumea and Its Relationship to Early Judaism
• Cult and religion in the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age
• Religion in Eighth-Century Judah
• At the origin of Canaanite cult and religion : the Early Bronze Age fertility ritual in Palestine
• The Religion of Idumea and Its Relationship to Early Judaism
• The Desert’s Role in the Formation of Early Israel and the Origin of Yhwh
• Pidray, Tallay and Arsay in the Baal Cycle
• Mythological Traditions from Late Bronze Age Ugarit to the Levant (Phoenicia) in the 1st Millennium BCE
• Eshem and Ashima: gods of the "Name"

Other

• Techniques of Graeco-Egyptian Magic
• The Aniconic Image of the Roman Near East
• Who Are the “Attendants of Helios”?
• A Comparative Study of Priesthoods and Clergy
• Why worship Gods?
• Foreign Gods, Syncretism and Hellenismos
• On God Forms
• The Gods of Roman Dacia. Illustrated dictionary of Roman divinities and personifications
• عشتار و تجلياتها في الشعر الجاهلي: صورة المرأة نموذجًا
• First steps in Greco-Egyptian magic
• A Reconsideration of the Aphrodite-Ashtart Syncretism
• Researching Metaphor in the Ancient Near East
• Influences of Egyptian Lotus Symbolism and Ritualistic Practices on Sacral Tree Worship in the Fertile Crescent from 1500 BCE to 200 CE
• The ‘Gesture of Blessing’ in the Greco-Roman East.
• Egyptian Iconography on Syro-Palestinian Cylinder Seals of the Middle Bronze Age
• Rock Icons: Litholatry in Bronze Age Syria
• Water and Religious Life in the Roman Near East. Gods, Spaces and Patterns of Worship.