ISBN:
9789004163706 (hardback : alk. paper)
,
9004163700 (hardback : alk. paper)
Language:
English
Pages:
xviii, 342 p. :
,
ill., maps ;
,
25 cm.
Year of publication:
2008
Series Statement:
Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ;
DDC:
939/.7004924
Description / Table of Contents:
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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