Inscribing devotion and death : archaeological evidence for Jewish populations of North Africa / / by Karen B. Stern.
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| Superior document: | Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, v. 161 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ;
v. 161. |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 342 p. :; ill., maps. |
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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.