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Author Stern, Karen B.

Title Inscribing devotion and death : archaeological evidence for Jewish populations of North Africa / by Karen B. Stern.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

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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
Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 161.
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
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Subject Jews -- Africa, North -- History -- To 1500.
Jews.
North Africa.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Jewish sepulchral monuments -- Africa, North.
Jewish sepulchral monuments.
Tombs -- Africa, North.
Tombs.
Death -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Death -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Judaism -- Africa, North -- History -- To 1500.
Judaism.
Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
Africa, North -- Antiquities, Roman.
Classical antiquities.
Africa, North -- Ethnic relations.
Ethnic relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
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)
9047423844 (electronic book)
9004163700 (Cloth)
9789004163706 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. 10.1163/ej.9789004163706.i-342