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)

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.

Table of Contents

Studies in Early Jewish Epigraphy -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- JEWISH INSCRIPTIONS AND JEWISH LITERATURE IN EGYPT, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ECCLESIASTICUS / William Horbury -- A JEWISH EPITAPH IN A LITERARY TEXT: 4 MACC 17:8–10 -- CURSES AGAINST VIOLATION OF THE GRAVE IN JEWISH EPITAPHS OF ASIA MINOR / Johan H. M. Strubbe -- JEWISH POETICAL TOMB INSCRIPTIONS -- ALPHABET-INSCRIPTIONS FROM JEWISH GRAVES / Alice Bij de Vaate -- THE JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF LEONTOPOLIS AND VENOSA / David Noy -- WHAT IS THE POLITEUMA? / Gert Lüderitz -- INSCRIPTION AND CONTEXT: READING THE JEWISH CATACOMBS OF ROME / Tessa Rajak -- JEWISH PERSONAL NAMES IN SOME NON-LITERARY SOURCES / Gerard Mussies -- INDEX OF PASSAGES -- ARBEITEN ZUR GESCHICHTE DES ANTIKEN JUDENTUMS UND DES URCHRISTENTUMS.