Studies in early Jewish epigraphy / / edited by Jan Willem van Henten and Pieter Willem van der Horst.

• Superior document: Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums, 21
• TeilnehmendeR: Henten, J. W. van.; Horst, Pieter Willem van der.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, New York : : E.J. Brill,, 1994.
• Year of Publication: 1994
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums 21.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (290 pages)
• Other title: Studies in Early Jewish Epigraphy --; PREFACE --; ABBREVIATIONS --; INTRODUCTION --; JEWISH INSCRIPTIONS AND JEWISH LITERATURE IN EGYPT, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ECCLESIASTICUS /; A JEWISH EPITAPH IN A LITERARY TEXT: 4 MACC 17:8–10 --; CURSES AGAINST VIOLATION OF THE GRAVE IN JEWISH EPITAPHS OF ASIA MINOR /; JEWISH POETICAL TOMB INSCRIPTIONS --; ALPHABET-INSCRIPTIONS FROM JEWISH GRAVES /; THE JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF LEONTOPOLIS AND VENOSA /; WHAT IS THE POLITEUMA? /; INSCRIPTION AND CONTEXT: READING THE JEWISH CATACOMBS OF ROME /; JEWISH PERSONAL NAMES IN SOME NON-LITERARY SOURCES /; INDEX OF PASSAGES --; ARBEITEN ZUR GESCHICHTE DES ANTIKEN JUDENTUMS UND DES URCHRISTENTUMS.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 900433274X
• ISSN: 0169-734X
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Jan Willem van Henten and Pieter Willem van der Horst.

This volume contains the papers of a workshop on Jewish epigraphy in antiquity organized at Utrecht University in 1992. Among the participants were collaborators of the Cambridge Jewish Inscriptions Project and of the Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients project. Important aspects of ancient Jewish inscriptions are highlighted in the papers, like the connection between documentary and literary texts. Several papers focus on aspects of the history of Jewish communities in the diaspora. Specialists in Jewish epigraphy will find surveys of parts of the corpus of Jewish inscriptions (curse inscriptions, metrical epitaphs, alphabet-inscriptions) and discussions of some fixed opinions, and Jewish inscriptions are discussed in a wider literary and historical contexts as well.