Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 342 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
Religions in the Graeco-Roman world,
0927-7633 ;
v. 161
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Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 161.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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. |
Summary |
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. |
Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Jews -- Africa, North -- History -- To 1500.
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Jews. |
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North Africa. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
Subject |
Jewish sepulchral monuments -- Africa, North.
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Jewish sepulchral monuments. |
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Tombs -- Africa, North.
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Tombs. |
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Death -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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Death -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. |
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Judaism -- Africa, North -- History -- To 1500.
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Judaism. |
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Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
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Africa, North -- Antiquities, Roman.
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Classical antiquities. |
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Africa, North -- Ethnic relations.
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Ethnic relations. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Stern, Karen B. Inscribing devotion and death. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008 9789004163706 9004163700 (DLC) 2007046983 (OCoLC)181424152 |
ISBN |
9789047423843 (electronic book) |
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9047423844 (electronic book) |
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9004163700 (Cloth) |
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9789004163706 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
Standard No. |
10.1163/ej.9789004163706.i-342 |
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