Inscribing devotion and death: archaeological evidence for Jewish populations of North Africa

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 -- Questioni...

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Auteur principal: Stern, Karen B. (Auteur)
Type de support: Imprimé Livre
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Leiden [u.a.] Brill 2008
Dans: Religions in the Graeco-Roman world (161)
Année: 2008
Collection/Revue:Religions in the Graeco-Roman world 161
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Juifs / Nordafrika
Sujets non-standardisés:B Tombs (Africa, North)
B Judaism (Africa, North) History To 1500
B Judaism History Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
B Jews (Africa, North) History To 1500
B Africa, North Antiquities, Roman
B Death Religious aspects Judaism
B Jews History To 1500 Africa, North
B Jewish sepulchral monuments (Africa, North)
B Africa, North Ethnic relations
B Jewish sepulchral monuments Africa, North
B Tombs Africa, North
B Judaism History To 1500 North Africa
B Judaism History Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
B Publication universitaire
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Résumé: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
Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9004163700