| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 342 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, 0927-7633 ; v. 161 |
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Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 161.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-334) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Jews -- Africa, North -- History -- To 1500
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Jewish sepulchral monuments -- Africa, North
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Tombs -- Africa, North
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Death -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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Judaism -- Africa, North -- History -- To 1500
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Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Classical antiquities
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Death -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
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Ethnic relations
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Jewish sepulchral monuments
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Jews
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Judaism
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Judaism -- Post-exilic period (Judaism)
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Tombs
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Archäologie
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Africa, North -- Antiquities, Roman
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Africa, North -- Ethnic relations
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| Subject |
North Africa
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Nordafrika
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Juden.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789047423843 |
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9047423844 |
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1281936995 |
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9781281936998 |
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9786611936990 |
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6611936998 |
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