Inscribing devotion and death
Stern, Karen B.
Inscribing devotion and death archaeological evidence for Jewish populations of North Africa / [electronic resource] : by Karen B. Stern. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008. - xviii, 342 p. : ill., maps. - Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, v. 161 0927-7633 ; . - Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 161. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-334) and index.
Toward a cultural history of Jewish populations in Roman North Africa -- Locating Jews in a North African world -- Naming like the neighbors: Jewish onomastic practices in Roman North Africa -- Inscribing the dead to describe the living: reading Jewish identity through funerary language -- Questioning "Jewishnesss" in the North African synagogue: Hammam Lif as a case study -- North African Jewish responses to death: choosing appropriate gods, neighbors, and houses in the afterlife.
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Palo Alto, Calif. :
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2013.
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Jews--History--Africa, North--To 1500.
Jewish sepulchral monuments--Africa, North.
Tombs--Africa, North.
Death--Religious aspects--Judaism.
Judaism--History--Africa, North--To 1500.
Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
Africa, North--Antiquities, Roman.
Africa, North--Ethnic relations.
Electronic books.
DS135.A25 / S74 2008eb
939/.7004924
Inscribing devotion and death archaeological evidence for Jewish populations of North Africa / [electronic resource] : by Karen B. Stern. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008. - xviii, 342 p. : ill., maps. - Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, v. 161 0927-7633 ; . - Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 161. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-334) and index.
Toward a cultural history of Jewish populations in Roman North Africa -- Locating Jews in a North African world -- Naming like the neighbors: Jewish onomastic practices in Roman North Africa -- Inscribing the dead to describe the living: reading Jewish identity through funerary language -- Questioning "Jewishnesss" in the North African synagogue: Hammam Lif as a case study -- North African Jewish responses to death: choosing appropriate gods, neighbors, and houses in the afterlife.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
bccb
Jews--History--Africa, North--To 1500.
Jewish sepulchral monuments--Africa, North.
Tombs--Africa, North.
Death--Religious aspects--Judaism.
Judaism--History--Africa, North--To 1500.
Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
Africa, North--Antiquities, Roman.
Africa, North--Ethnic relations.
Electronic books.
DS135.A25 / S74 2008eb
939/.7004924