Inscribing devotion and death : archaeological evidence for Jewish populations of North Africa
| 1. Verfasser: |
Stern, Karen B.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xviii, 342 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ;
v. 161 |
| ISBN: | 9004163700 9789004163706 |
| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Nordafrika Africa Hammam Lif |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.
