TY - BOOK AU - Stern,Karen B. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Inscribing devotion and death: archaeological evidence for Jewish populations of North Africa T2 - Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, AV - DS135.A25 S74 2008eb U1 - 939/.7004924 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Jews KW - Africa, North KW - History KW - To 1500 KW - Jewish sepulchral monuments KW - Tombs KW - Death KW - Religious aspects KW - Judaism KW - Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D KW - Antiquities, Roman KW - Ethnic relations KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10363813 ER -