A New Jewish Epitaph Commemorating Care for Orphans

This article presents an edition of a previously unpublished Greek epitaph in the J. Willard Marriot Library at the University of Utah. The inscription commemorates a woman by the name of Helene who is identified as a Ἰουδαία and who was remembered for showing love to orphans. While Helene is identi...

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1. VerfasserIn: Blumell, Lincoln H. 1975- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Brill 2016
In: Journal for the study of Judaism
Jahr: 2016, Band: 47, Heft: 3, Seiten: 310-329
weitere Schlagwörter:B Inscriptions epitaphs Egypt Roman period
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Zusammenfassung:This article presents an edition of a previously unpublished Greek epitaph in the J. Willard Marriot Library at the University of Utah. The inscription commemorates a woman by the name of Helene who is identified as a Ἰουδαία and who was remembered for showing love to orphans. While Helene is identified as a Ἰουδαία she is also styled as an Ἄµα, a title that otherwise only occurs for certain Christian women in late antique Egypt. Thus, this inscription appears to resist a straightforward classification as it employs terminology that straddles religious categories.1
ISSN:1570-0631
Enthält:In: Journal for the study of Judaism
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700631-12340459