Inscribing devotion and death archaeological evidence for Jewish populations of North Africa /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stern, Karen B.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Series:Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 161.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.