Inscribing devotion and death : archaeological evidence for Jewish populations of North Africa /
Drawing upon scholarship of cultural identity, anthropology and historical linguistics, this book offers a contextual approach to the interpretation of archaeological evidence for Jewish populations in North Africa and elsewhere.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008.
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Colección: | Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ;
v. 161. |
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.