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Inscribing devotion and death : archaeological evidence for Jewish populations of North Africa
- Title
- Inscribing devotion and death : archaeological evidence for Jewish populations of North Africa / by Karen B. Stern.
- Author
- Stern, Karen B.
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
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- Description
- xviii, 342 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, 0927-7633 ; v. 161
- Uniform Title
- Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 161.
- Subjects
- Judaism > History > Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
- Africa, North > Antiquities, Roman
- Jews > Africa, North > History > To 1500
- Tombs > Africa, North
- Jewish sepulchral monuments > Africa, North
- Death > Religious aspects > Judaism
- Judaism > Africa, North > History > To 1500
- Africa, North > Ethnic relations
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-334) and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9789004163706 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9004163700 (hardback : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007046983
- OCLC
- ocn181424152
- 181424152
- SCSB-5388403
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries