Inscribing devotion and death : archaeological evidence for Jewish populations of North Africa / by Karen B. Stern

Englisch

Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2008

XVIII, 342 S. : Ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Teilw. zugl.: Providence, RI, Brown Univ., Diss., 2006

978-90-04-16370-6 hardback : alk. paper

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

9789004163706

*Juden / Nordafrika

*Jews -- Africa, North -- History -- To 1500 ; Jewish sepulchral monuments -- Africa, North ; Tombs -- Africa, North ; Death -- Religious aspects -- Judaism ; Judaism -- Africa, North -- History -- To 1500 ; Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D ; Africa, North -- Antiquities, Roman ; Africa, North -- Ethnic relations ; Jews -- History -- To 1500 -- Africa, North ; Jewish sepulchral monuments -- Africa, North ; Tombs -- Africa, North ; Death -- Religious aspects -- Judaism ; Judaism -- History -- To 1500 -- North Africa ; Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D ; Africa, North -- Antiquities, Roman ; Africa, North -- Ethnic relations

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: DS135.A25

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 939/.7004924 ; 939.7004924

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: BE 1660: B Theologie und Religionswissenschaften / BE Religionswissenschaft / Reihen, Serien

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: NY 4050: N Geschichte / NY Geschichte der Juden / Allgemeines

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: NY 4930: N Geschichte / NY Geschichte der Juden / Afrika

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

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