Inscribing Devotion and Death ：Archaeological Evidence for Jewish Populations of North Africa ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：Archaeological Evidence for Jewish Populations of North Africa

Publication series ：1

Author： Stern   Karen  

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2007

E-ISBN: 9789047423843

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004163706

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9789004163706

Subject： I057 Folk Literature

Language： ENG

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Description

Drawing upon scholarship of cultural identity, anthropology and historical linguistics, this book offers a novel and contextual approach to the interpretation of archaeological evidence for Jewish populations in North Africa and elsewhere in the ancient Mediterranean.

Chapter

Preface

pp.：  9 – 16

Abbreviations

pp.：  17 – 18

Chapter One Toward a Cultural History of Jewish Populations in Roman North Africa

pp.：  19 – 68

Chapter Two Locating Jews in a North African World

pp.：  69 – 116

Chapter Three Naming Like the Neighbors: Jewish Onomastic Practices in Roman North Africa

pp.：  117 – 162

Chapter Four Inscribing the Dead to Describe the Living: Reading Jewish Identity through Funerary Language

pp.：  163 – 210

Chapter Five Questioning "Jewishnesss" in the North African Synagogue: Hammam Lif as a Case Study

pp.：  211 – 272

Chapter Six North African Jewish Responses to Death: Choosing Appropriate Gods, Neighbors, and Houses in the Afterlife

pp.：  273 – 320

Conclusion

pp.：  321 – 332

Bibliography

pp.：  333 – 352

Index

pp.：  353 – 360

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