Inscribing devotion and death [electronic resource] : archaeological evidence for Jewish populations of North Africa / by Karen B. Stern.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 161.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.Description: xviii, 342 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 939/.7004924 22
LOC classification:
  • DS135.A25 S74 2008eb
Other classification:
  • 15.80
Online resources:
Contents:
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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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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