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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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Leiden [u.a.]
Brill
2008
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| In: |
Religions in the Graeco-Roman world (161)
Year: 2008 |
| Series/Journal: | Religions in the Graeco-Roman world
161 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Jews
/ North Africa
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| Further subjects: | 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 Thesis 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 |
| Summary: | 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 |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | XVIII, 342 S., Ill. |
| ISBN: | 9004163700 |