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Inscribing devotion and death

by Stern, Karen B.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, 0927-7633 ; . v. 161 Published by : Brill, (Leiden ; | Boston :) Physical details: xviii, 342 p. : ill., maps.
Subject(s): 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. | Electronic books.
Year: 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-334) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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