Inscribing devotion and death [electronic resource] : archaeological evidence for Jewish populations of North Africa / by Karen B. Stern.
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TextSeries: Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 161.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.Description: 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 relations
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- DS135.A25 S74 2008
- 15.80
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| Ebook | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online | eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available |
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.