Inscribing devotion and death [electronic resource] : archaeological evidence for Jewish populations of North Africa / by Karen B. Stern.
Material type: TextSeries: Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 161.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008Description: xviii, 342 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Jews -- Africa, North -- History -- To 1500 | Jewish sepulchral monuments -- Africa, North | Tombs -- Africa, North | Death -- Religious aspects -- Judaism | Judaism -- Africa, North -- History -- To 1500 | Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D | Africa, North -- Antiquities, Roman | Africa, North -- Ethnic relationsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 939/.7004924 LOC classification: DS135.A25 | S74 2008Other classification: 15.80 Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes 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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