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Writing on the wall : graffiti and the forgotten Jews of antiquity
- Title
- Writing on the wall : graffiti and the forgotten Jews of antiquity / Karen B. Stern.
- Author
- Stern, Karen B.
- Publication
- Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xxiii, 283 pages : illustrations, maps, plans; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Prevailing perspectives on ancient Jewish life have been shaped largely by the voices of intellectual and social elites, preserved in the writings of Philo and Josephus and the rabbinic texts of the Mishnah and Talmud. Commissioned art, architecture, and formal inscriptions displayed on tombs and synagogues equally reflect the sensibilities of their influential patrons. The perspectives and sentiments of nonelite Jews, by contrast, have mostly disappeared from the historical record. Focusing on these forgotten Jews of antiquity, 'Writing on the Wall' takes an unprecedented look at the vernacular inscriptions and drawings they left behind and sheds new light on the richness of their quotidian lives. Just like their neighbors throughout the eastern and southern Mediterranean, Mesopotamia, Arabia, and Egypt, ancient Jews scribbled and drew graffiti everyplace--in and around markets, hippodromes, theaters, pagan temples, open cliffs, sanctuaries, and even inside burial caves and synagogues. Karen Stern reveals what these markings tell us about the men and women who made them, people whose lives, beliefs, and behaviors eluded commemoration in grand literary and architectural works. Making compelling analogies with modern graffiti practices, she documents the overlooked connections between Jews and their neighbors, showing how popular Jewish practices of prayer, mortuary commemoration, commerce, and civic engagement regularly crossed ethnic and religious boundaries."--Publisher information.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-268) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: graffiti, ancient and modern -- Carving graffiti as devotion -- Mortuary graffiti in the Roman East -- Making one's mark in a pagan and Christian world -- Rethinking modern graffiti through ancient.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-7378
- ISBN
- 9780691161334
- 069116133X
- OCLC
- 1035751711
- Author
- Stern, Karen B., author.
- Title
- Writing on the wall : graffiti and the forgotten Jews of antiquity / Karen B. Stern.
- Publisher
- Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-268) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-7378