Inscribing devotion and death archaeological evidence for Jewish populations of North Africa / [electronic resource] :
by Karen B. Stern.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
- xviii, 342 p. : ill., maps.
- Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, v. 161 0927-7633 ; .
- Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 161. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-334) and index.
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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