Writing on the Wall : : Graffiti and the Forgotten Jews of Antiquity / / Karen B. Stern.

Few direct clues exist to the everyday lives and beliefs of ordinary Jews in antiquity. Prevailing perspectives on ancient Jewish life have been shaped largely by the voices of intellectual and social elites, preserved in the writings of Philo and Josephus and the rabbinic texts of the Mishnah and T...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 55 b/w illus., 4 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction. Graffiti, Ancient and Modern
  • Chapter 1. Carving Graffiti as Devotion
  • Chapter 2. Mortuary Graffiti in the Roman East
  • Chapter 3. Making One's Mark in a Pagan and Christian World
  • Rethinking Modern Graffiti through Ancient
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index