Inscribing devotion and death: archaeological evidence for Jewish populations of North Africa
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1. Verfasser: Stern, Karen B. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Abschlussarbeit Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston Brill 2008
Schriftenreihe:Religions in the Graeco-Roman world Volume 161
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 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
Drawing upon scholarship of cultural identity, anthropology and historical linguistics, this book offers a contextual approach to the interpretation of archaeological evidence for Jewish populations in North Africa and elsewhere
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 342 Seiten) Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9789047423843
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